UCLA forecast says California will muddle through early 2026 as AI growth collides with tariffs weak jobs and housing woes.

The quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast calls for the U.S. and California economies to "muddle through" early 2026 before ...

California faces a prolonged employment recession into early 2026, driven by elevated costs, weak job growth, and the early ...

The state’s outlook is complicated by “a bifurcated economy” in which AI, aerospace and advanced manufacturing continue to ...

It has not been a pretty summer for consumers at California’s supermarkets. That’s what my trusty spreadsheet found when averaging slices of Consumer Price Indexes for three Golden State metro areas: ...

California’s minimum wage inflation isn’t going to stop with the massive fast-food wage hike. Instead, it is going to grow worse year after year. Just four months after the state jacked up the ...

The pace of Southern California inflation rose slightly in July as trade tensions helped nudge the cost-of-living higher. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the Consumer Price Indexes for Los Angeles and ...

The December 2025 UCLA Anderson Forecast for the United States and California describe a situation with two economic trends currently working in opposition. In some sectors of the economy, ongoing and ...

Tenants in Southern California are not getting the same level of relief from rent increases as the average American. This insight comes from my trusty spreadsheet’s analysis of rent inflation data ...

It has not been a pretty summer for consumers at California’s supermarkets. This summer’s pricing – June through August’s reports – shows that prices in the “food at home” category across those three ...