August 14, 2026
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Author: Jay Rogers

Jay Rogers is a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and wealth management. He has a BS from Northeastern University and has completed postgraduate studies at UCLA, UPENN, and Harvard. He writes about issues in finance, constitutional law, national security, human nature, and public policy.

Nobody In Sacramento Voted Against This Bill – It Could Still Die Anyway

August 12, 2026   8:40 amAugust 12, 2026   8:40 am
A bill just cleared the California Assembly 76-0. Zero no votes. Not one member of either party stood up to object. In a Legislature that can turn a resolution honoring National Donut Day into a floor fight, that alone is...
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The SECURE Data Act Isn’t So Secure for State Sovereignty

August 5, 2026   7:00 amAugust 5, 2026   7:01 am
Congress calls it the SECURE Data Act. Californians should read it as a preemption bill wearing a privacy label. Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.) introduced H.R. 8413 in April, and it would build the first federal law covering the full sweep...
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California Proves Pension Reform Was Never a Settlement

July 29, 2026   6:00 amJuly 29, 2026   6:01 am
California’s Assembly Bill 1383 passed the Assembly 70 to 2 in January. Set aside for a moment what the bill does. Start with the vote. Seventy members, from the most progressive Democrat in the caucus to all but two Republicans,...
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Stockton Already Told Us How This Ends

July 22, 2026   6:00 amJuly 22, 2026   6:01 am
Stockton’s 2012 bankruptcy filing gets taught as a morality play about municipal excess. It wasn’t excess. It was a fiduciary breach, and the record proves it. In 2007 the city council voted to sell $125 million in pension obligation bonds...
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CalPERS Committed $21 Billion to Diversity But Still Can’t Say If It Paid Off

July 21, 2026   12:00 pmJuly 21, 2026   12:01 pm
Federal contractors have until July 24 to certify they don’t run illegal DEI programs, or risk the fate of IBM, which paid $17 million in May to settle the first case brought under the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative....
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Seven States Down, Forty-Three to Go: The Squatter Fix Is Not Complicated

July 13, 2026   2:25 pmJuly 13, 2026   2:25 pm
Point first: a squatter almost never walks away owning your house. The racket is what it costs you to prove he doesn’t. South Carolina just handed property owners a faster way to find out. On June 25, both chambers of...
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Sacramento’s Sanctuary Law Is Also a Housing Policy

July 10, 2026   7:34 amJuly 10, 2026   7:34 am
I arrived in California in 1990 with a high and tight haircut, a criminal justice degree from Northeastern, and the kind of optimism the state doesn’t sell anymore. Home prices in Los Angeles County ran roughly three times the median...
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