Never one to miss an opportunity for posturing, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced plans to “Trump-proof” the state if the former president wins later this year. read more »
Economics
Gavin Newsom's Futile Bid to Trump-Proof California
- Login to post comments
California's Broken Diversity Promise
Few states are more ostentatious in their concern for racial equality and minority uplift than California. read more »
- Login to post comments
Hydrogen or Synthetic Fossil Fuels?
Every few years within the energy sector, a new 'entrepreneur' emerges with a supposedly 'revolutionary' idea that often turns out to be nothing more than a repackaging of an old concept that failed to gain traction. read more »
- Login to post comments
New Report: El Futuro es Latino
This newly released report covers the challenges and successes of Latinos, their history in California, and present day role in the economy. read more »
- Login to post comments
Ending the Phone Based Childhood
NYU professor Jonathan Haidt has a new book out called The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. read more »
NYC Must Stop Destroying Its Institutions
Due to budget concerns, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed cuts to the New York City public library budgets, forcing the majority of public libraries to cut their hours and open only five days a week. read more »
- Login to post comments
The Coming Revolt Against Woke Capitalism
The greatest threat to Western civilisation comes not from China, Russia or Islamists, but from the very people who rank among its greatest beneficiaries. read more »
- Login to post comments
Blue States Should Let ESG Die
Life is going from bad to worse for the ESG movement. This weekend, activist investor Bluebell Capital began a new battle to try and force BlackRock into overhauling its commitments to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing read more »
- Login to post comments
California's Electricity Disaster in Seven Charts
California’s energy woes are getting worse. According to the latest numbers from the Energy Information Administration, the state’s residential electricity prices, already among the highest in America, jumped by 3 cents per kilowatt-hour last year, an increase of 11.9%. read more »
- Login to post comments
How AI Helps Tech Giants
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its related technologies — machine learning and the metaverse — represent a watershed in the evolution of the global economy. Like other such shifts, its emergence is likely to favor certain interests, notably a handful of technology giants, the media and a small cadre of highly skilled programmers. Everyone else faces economic danger, certain to roil domestic and international politics in coming years. read more »
- Login to post comments