”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of art and data.
Buzz: California has 11 county economies among the nation’s 50 largest.
Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed various economic output figures including 2020 gross domestic product by county from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, national GDPs from the World Bank for 2020, and 2021’s corporate sales of large U.S. publicly held firms from Companiesmarketcap.com.
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It’s often hard to grasp just how much business is done in the oft-maligned Golden State economy.
Just look at what the recent release of data on local business activity tells us. When I put countywide outputs measured by GDP math into some geographical perspective, even California’s 11th largest economy — Contra Costa County — has more business value flowing through it than what’s produced in all of…
