California’s 4.2% productivity gain helped drive a third of U.S. growth in 2025, even as workers logged fewer hours.

California has regained its bragging-rights ranking as the world’s fourth-largest economy. Using gross domestic product as the scorecard, my spreadsheet compared fresh state-level data for the third ...

California has regained its bragging-rights ranking as the world’s fourth-largest economy. Using gross domestic product as the scorecard, my trusty spreadsheet compared fresh state-level data for the ...

My trusty spreadsheet looked at the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ tally of business output growth for the states and found that California’s GDP was up 2.4% for 2025. That was the 11th-best performance ...

Sure, California is a big state, but a global economic force? It's not called the Golden State for nothing. California is the fourth-largest economy in the world, Governor Gavin Newsom said on ...

Hollywood's home state is hosting a dramatic primary election. Here's what readers said about California's political moment.

The world’s economic gyrations make it tricky to put California’s economic might into a global perspective. There’s no perfect yardstick of business heft. Even the often-used benchmark – gross ...