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Californians Moving Out Is Not The State’s Most Worrisome Trend Exploring the overlooked trend of Californians staying put and its implications. Economic Policy, Real Estate May 24, 2023 Author: Benjamin Noon Benjamin Noon All Articles Over the past few years, it would have been difficult to miss news coverage reporting that people are leaving California for states like Texas and Florida....
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The Job-pocalypse? Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Consumers, General Economy, Healthcare May 8, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles The April employment report was released this morning and the grim tidings it delivered, while anticipated, were still quite startling. The U.S. unemployment rate shot to 14.7%, over 11 percentage points higher than in February, even as the number...
The Expansion is Dead, Long Live the Expansion Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies blog, Consumers, General Economy, Healthcare April 30, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles As Beacon Economics has written in our published outlooks over the past six weeks, a true understanding of what is currently happening in the economy is limited given the delay in receiving relevant...
A GDP Reality Check Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy July 27, 2018 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles The 4.1% growth rate in U.S. Gross Domestic Product in the 2nd quarter (announced today) was not a surprise to anyone looking at the monthly numbers. In fact, it came in a bit below the consensus prediction...