Thank you Eric. Happy to be here. Looking forward to learning from all of you here.
Thank you Mike30. Loved your "Communist Republic of California!! ". Very funny indeed. I'm from Arizona and keeping an eye on what's happening in California, since it is our neighbor, and whatever happens in California, politically, it is soon to drizzle down into Arizona.
), but certainly not followed in all cases. There's that saying that the individual states are "laboratories of democracy," right? Well in California you get to see an experiment in which democratic supermajorities set robust state-level regulatory policy in the world's eighth largest economy. This scenario really does enable California to be a leader in some areas (e.g., net-zero carbon emissions and 100% clean electricity by 2045), but California's also had some less successful initiatives (e.g., high speed rail) that should serve as cautionary tales for other states.
