What, haven’t you heard about the Bay Area’s outrageous cost of housing and California’s crazy high tax structure? You could expand anywhere in the United States, go where the average price of a decent home is $250,000 or less, which might be just the down payment in the Bay Area! Then again, if you were…Read More→

I was just mailed a marketing piece from the California Madera County, Economic Development Commission, and a few interesting facts: In 1990 California’s population was only 29,950,000 and now it is 39,927,000, a 10 million growth in less than 30 years! No wonder our housing hasn’t caught up. The average home price in 2018 in…Read More→

According to Asia Now: The China Edition, Matthew Asia’s 2019 report, among Chinese millennials 88% shop online more than once a week, there are 1 billion smartphone connections in China, 98.6% of internet users accessed the web via a mobile device, their middle class was 4% urban population in 2000 and in 2018 was up…Read More→

Does giving tax breaks and / or subsidies to corporations to entice them to relocate to your community work? There has been a number of reports out that basically state, “Financial incentives do not spur economic activity!” Claims are made that construction jobs, local investment in the community, of course, new jobs … While these…Read More→

One more blog about governments offering huge economic incentives, tax breaks and subsidies to entice corporations to set up shop in their region. Yes, there can be “clawback” provisions whereby if the promised economic benefits of new jobs and increased economic prosperity do not occur, the company has to give back part or all of…Read More→

In Site Selection on January 2018 California was either at the top or near the bottom ranking for various economic and business benchmarks. Out of 50 U.S. States, California was #1 in Higher Ed. R&D Expenditure, #2 in Information Technology and Innovation, but #48 in Business Tax Climate and #47 in lowest cost of electricity….Read More→