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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:28 am    Post subject: CALIFORNIA Reply with quote

The world's fifth largest economy in budgetary shambles:

http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/arnold-schwarzenegger


Prohibition, may show a way out Cool :

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-medical-marijuana3-2009jun03,0,2392842.story
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dubai without (any) the money: "California City."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cal-city-20100814,0,2325763.story?page=1&track=rss
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, yes. Don't underestimate the State. They used to call 'em "revenuers":

http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/RFDKA8T-LPM/
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What?! No more chicken-azz tickets?


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/california-cities-start-shutting-down-police-forces-to-close-budget-gaps.html
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Enterprise? Let no space go unsold:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/California-License-Plates-May-Go-Digital-96758099.html
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone used to the drive 5 north knows this property:

Tim Melvin
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6/14/2010 1:58 PM EDT


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I see on my weekly list of new 52 week lows that shares of Tejon ranch are bouncing off a 52 week low. I know real estate, especially California real estate is distressed but as Steve Goddard of the Touchstone Small Cap Core Fund told Gregg Greenberg on the Street.com a few weeks ago the current price value Tejon's real estate at less than $2000 an acre. That is incredibly cheap for land on a major highway less than 50 miles from Los Angeles. Long term investor should consider the stock at current levels for a long term play on the eventual recovery of the California market. It may well go lower in the near term but I am willing to bet the stock is at least two times higher in five years.


It's too far and on the wrong side for an easy commute. And tract homes are soooo out of fashion. It's not going to be warehouses or burger joints either. And the casinos are south and east--lot's of 'em. Prime land nonetheless and probably committed to prime beef foreseeable. Now that high-speed train that the FEDs want to fund makes things a little more interesting.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That these are "utilities" makes you wonder about our new "utility" model of very large corporations. Put more politics into the corporation; get more politics out of the corporation:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20100613,0,770126.column
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bel Air back in record black:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/06/belair-home-sale-eclipses-previous-yeartodate-price-record.html
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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google Labs getting interesting:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=a7jenngfc4um7_&ctype=c&met_y=personal_income_per_capita&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&ifdim=county:state:06000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2010 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mon Dieu! Union jobs on the block in Los Angeles....sorta....kinda:


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0518-la-budget-20100517,0,6664949.story
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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're back in business...with a twist. Paradox of Thrift:


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-home-buying-20100514,0,4455198.story
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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Forgot to mention, California CDS got crushed today, 20bps wider. Should we start calling it the Spanish correlation trade?
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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Income:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget.eps-20100504,0,6553636.graphic
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trend-setter?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreclosures-20100421,0,7066382.story
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The last to know is learning slowly:

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/12/2671398/state-tax-revenues-show-uptick.html


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... sales tax collections have increased by more than $2 billion this fiscal year.

At the same time, personal and corporate income tax payments are still down by $1.2 billion from a year ago, even with higher tax rates approved by the Legislature.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Los Angeles finally forced to cut back:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/04/villaraigosa-calls-for-shutting-down-some-city-departments-amid-budget-crisis.html

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies -- except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments -- to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city's continuing budget crisis.

"We have to act, and we have to act quickly," Villaraigosa said at a press conference.

The mayor said he would direct the city's chief administrative officer to immediately begin planning to set the shutdown in motion.
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