October 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.

California’s Ballot Petition Racket Just Got Caught

September 11, 2026   12:24 pmSeptember 11, 2026   12:24 pm
Somewhere in Sacramento a legislative staffer is drafting a press release about “the will of the people.” Down on Skid Row, the will of the people goes for two or three dollars a signature, cash, no questions asked, and you...
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Checkmate at the Border, Stalemate in Sacramento

September 5, 2026   12:00 pmSeptember 6, 2026   8:43 am
Eighty-five degrees in the shade, dust on the windshield, and an eighteen-wheeler rolling through Arizona’s Yuma Sector like any other Tuesday. Between August 10 and 14, federal agents pulled 95 truck drivers off that stretch of interstate. Every single one...
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Sacramento Just Turned Off the Lights

September 1, 2026   9:25 amSeptember 1, 2026   9:25 am
I have spent thirty years chasing fraud in the financial services industry as a court-designated expert witness in federal and state courts. The first lesson you learn in that line of work is simple. Fraud does not survive in the...
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A Field Trip to One Faith Isn’t Comparative Religion

August 30, 2026   6:02 amAugust 30, 2026   6:03 am
Fifteen-year-old girls at Palo Alto High School were handed hijabs and encouraged to wear them if they wanted to fit in with the visit. Their classmates were handed Qurans to take home. A Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter director gave...
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Mello-Roos: The Special Tax That Follows the House

August 25, 2026   6:30 amAugust 25, 2026   6:31 am
In more than thirty years reviewing fixed-income holdings and family-office portfolios, I have watched California homeowners discover the same unwelcome line item on their property-tax bills. It sits below the familiar 1% Proposition 13 rate, labeled “CFD,” “Special Assessment,” or...
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California’s Housing Shortage Has a Washington Fingerprint

August 20, 2026   3:45 pmAugust 20, 2026   3:46 pm
I landed in California in 1990, the tail end of the Reagan afterglow, when the state still felt like the reward at the end of the road trip. Three decades later I’ve got two sons who will be hunting for...
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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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