by jpitney | Jan 6, 2026 | California Politics, Economic Policy
Vince Ybarra at KFSN-TV: A new U-Haul report suggests the California exodus is still happening despite an increase in population. For people looking to move, California is not a desired location, according to data collected by U-Haul. The moving company compiled more...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Education, Environment, Homelessness, Poverty, State Government, Taxes, Transportation
Jim Geraghty at NRO: As I wrote earlier this year, U.S. News and World Report ranks each state on a wide variety of categories. In the most recent assessment, California ranked dead last in opportunity, dead last in affordability, 47th in employment, 47th in energy...
by jpitney | Dec 22, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Economic Policy
Jacob Smagula is a student at Claremont McKenna College and student manager at the Dreier Roundtable. Zoe Yu is a writer and student at Harvard. They write in The Boston Globe: Over the past decade, the share of people under 25 with investment accounts has increased...
by jpitney | Dec 19, 2025 | Economic Policy, Taxes, Trade
Don Wolfensberger: It was one thing to think that tariffs on foreign imports was a foreign policy issue, not directly affecting average Americans. It was quite another to realize it was really a tax on goods purchased by U.S. businesses and consumers. While both...
by jpitney | Oct 15, 2025 | China, Economic Policy, Trade
Lingling Wei and Gavin Bade at WSJ: In its trade standoff with Washington, Beijing thinks it has found America’s Achilles’ heel: President Trump’s fixation on the stock market. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is betting that the U.S. economy can’t absorb a prolonged trade...
by jpitney | Oct 12, 2025 | Economic Policy
Congratulations to @MariaCorinaYA on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Her courageous fight for democracy in Venezuela is a reminder that socialism doesn’t lift people up, it holds them down. We continue to stand with the Venezuelan people in their pursuit of freedom,...
