“When the press talks about the economy, they mostly like to quote the Anderson School at UCLA, which has been upheld as an unbiased source. I no longer have confidence this is true. For balance, and because I believe that competition is healthy, I have started looking at the University of the Pacific’s Eberhardt School of Business releases on the economy. The Business Forecasting Center at the Uof P is only about a year old, but its product has already caught my eye because the work tends to include detailed local and regional perspectives on California that I have not seen covered in other reports. The style is clear and not clouded by academic gobblygook. I commend Professor Sean Snaith for his work communicating economic information to the public. Beyond the California summary, the areas covered are: Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francsico, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Stockton-Lodi, Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa, and Yolo.”