And California Real Estate dominates Democrat Party land use policy.
The US is the largest landholder in the US. If they want to retire the debt, they should tokenize a portion of that real estate and offer dividends on the proceeds.
We live in WA. Wonder what an “Information” state encompasses.
This might be one of the dumbest statistical measures I've ever come across.
The BEA may as well consider each person's spending to be a byproduct of merely living, and consider "Oxygen Processing" as the top industry in every state.
It used to be that the leading industry in each state also allowed the state run edacation cutriculum was tailored to that industry.
in MN it is probably manufacturing, more precisely medical device manufacturing.
Real estate, HA! Nice trick they pull to get that garbage info into the mainstream.
The calculation of owner-occupying house stems from economics: all factors of production yield something to the owner:interest (capital), wage (labor), profit (entrepreneurship) and rent (property). If someone own a house then they rent it out, they will get money (rent). If they live in the house, the house provides service to the owner in the amount similar to the rent they would have received if they rent it out.
How pitiful can a state be?
Oklahoma is the only state where “Government” is the biggest industry, not including DC which is not a state and should never be.
I sat for a jury pool in the Federal District Court in Muskogee last year. The judge was a friendly sort of fellow and wanted to get to know the jury pool asking where they were from and what did they do etc. There were only three of us in the pool of about 60 that were independent businessmen, a couple of ranchers and the rest were either retired military, retired civil service of some sort or active civil service. Must have been at least 40 of them employed or retired from the government and another 10 married to someone who was government affiliated.
It was the sixth time in my life I sat for a jury pool and was excused in the first round. I am wondering what I’ve done wrong? At the end of this year I will be excused based on age if I want to be and I do.