by jpitney | Nov 11, 2023 | Business, California Politics, China
Frank Shyong at LAT: When my reporting takes me to the San Gabriel Valley, I often stop at Jim’s Bakery for egg tarts, Ba Le for banh mi and Alice’s Kitchen for rice rolls, if my diet can justify it. But they were all closed Tuesday, a common day off for restaurants —...
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2023 | Business, Regulation
Jessica Melugin of the Competitive Enterprise Institute is an alum of Claremont McKenna College: In a new Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) study, technology policy expert Jessica Melugin writes that concern about “killer acquisitions” – a market leader...
by jpitney | Feb 5, 2023 | Business, California Politics, Regulation
Adam B. Summers at The Hill: Numerous surveys and reports analyzing a variety of economic indicators have consistently placed California at or near the very bottom of all states in terms of economic freedom and business climate. The state ranked 48th in the Tax...
by jpitney | Dec 23, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Business, California Politics, Regulation
From Claremont McKenna College: The 2022 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey finds that the cost of doing business in California is higher than in other states in the western United States. The annual survey, published since 2003, finds that 64...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2022 | Business, China, Elections, Public Opinion
Caitlin Oprysko at Politico on Bruce Mehlman (P’21 P’25): MEHLMAN’S LATEST: Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas’ Bruce Mehlman is out with his latest slide deck, which zeroes in backlash threatening to upend four different trends in politics and policy....
by jpitney | Jun 13, 2021 | Business, Mass Media, Newspapers
\ Jack Shafer at Politico: In 2009, just as the apocalypse befell the newspaper industry but while local news was still in relative abundance, many readers gave it an apathetic shrug. A Pew Research Center survey from that year found that an astonishing 42 percent...