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California is now the world's fifth-largest economy, surpassing United Kingdom
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-economy-gdp-20180504-story.html
California's economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world's fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday.
California's gross domestic product rose by $127 billion from 2016 to 2017, surpassing $2.7 trillion, the data said. Meanwhile, the U.K.'s economic output slightly shrank over that time when measured in U.S. dollars, due in part to exchange rate fluctuations.
The data demonstrate the sheer immensity of California's economy, home to nearly 40 million people, a thriving technology sector in Silicon Valley, the world's entertainment capital in Hollywood and the nation's salad bowl in the Central Valley agricultural heartland. It also reflects a substantial turnaround since the Great Recession.
All economic sectors except agriculture contributed to California's higher GDP, said Irena Asmundson, chief economist at the California Department of Finance. Financial services and real estate led the pack at $26 billion in growth, followed by the information sector, which includes many technology companies, at $20 billion. Manufacturing was up $10 billion.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)from Vandenberg and heard the launch but it is too foggy to see it.
I use to live next door to the base and some launches we could see from the ground up from the street we lived on. We moved 3 years ago to a smaller house.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)That happens, watch the US economy absolutely collapse.