There are those sky-high personal and corporate tax rates (though California charges no estate tax), a minimum wage of $16.50 and no right-to-work law. If these rankings are of any value at all, they ...

California's nominal GDP in 2024 was $4.10 trillion, per the Bureau of Economic Analysis, overtaking Japan's $4.03 trillion in the same period, per the International Monetary Fund ...

Forget the wildfires, earthquakes, water shortages and all the other factors that place the California dream in doubt, ...

California’s economy continued to grow at a fast clip of 6% in 2024, according to data and Newsom’s office. The top three economies in the world all grew at slower rates: 5.3% in the entire U.S., 2.6% ...

California is now the fourth-largest global economy, with the state's governor using that to attack Trump's tariff policy. Where does Arizona stand?

California has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world. The ranking is from newly released International Monetary Fund and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data ...

California in 2024 claimed the world’s fourth-largest economy, by some curious math. Whether the state remains at this high, ...

California is the fourth-largest economy in the world, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday. With nominal gross domestic product of $4.1 trillion, the state now ranks behind only the overall U.S., ...

California is the nation’s top state for new business starts, access to venture capital funding, and manufacturing, high-tech ...

California is not the only state economy that’s a business powerhouse on a global scale. The state’s businesses produced $4.1 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom was quick to announce that California's economy ranked fourth in the world, but maybe he spoke too soon. (Eric Thayer / Associated Press) ...

If these rankings are of any value at all ... leaves the rest of the country in the dust. California's economy is about one-third larger than that of the second-largest state, Texas, and nearly ...