California dreams and thrives as governor Jerry Brown rejects Donald Trump’s nightmare
Just about every policy US President Donald Trump imposes to make his America great is opposed by the world’s fifth-largest economy. That would be California, which is growing faster and outperforming the US in job growth, manufacturing, personal income, corporate profits and the total return of its bonds. The most populous US state, with 39.5-million people, supplanted the UK as number five in the world with an equivalent GDP of more than $2.7-trillion, increasing $127bn in 2017, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Trump attributes the prosperity of the US economy during his 17 months as president to his evisceration of environmental regulations and other consumer protections, abandoning the Paris climate accord, aggressively deporting undocumented immigrants, prohibiting people from certain nations (mostly majority Muslim) from emigrating to the US, prosecuting sanctuary cities for protecting immigrants, cutting taxes most for corporations and the rich and appointing a Suprem...
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