Economist Editor-in-Chief Comes Down Hard on California

Yesterday, as part Stanford University’s Payne Distinguished Leadership series, Economist editor-in-chief John Micklethwait (pictured) spoke to a packed house at the Bechtel Conference Center.

Per a report in student newspaper The Stanford Daily, he did not disappoint. The self-described “paranoid optimist,” who suggested at one point that “journalists are the prostitutes of the political world,” had this to say about the Golden State:

Micklethwait further remarked that “governments have become too large and cumbersome and need modernizing.”

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