Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California is now the fourth-largest economy in the world.

The Californian economy has overtaken Japan's to become the fourth-largest in the world by gross domestic product (GDP).

The American passport has dropped to 10th place in the latest Henley Passport Index, the lowest position ever for the world's largest economy in the 20-year history of the index.

California economy is now the world’s 4th-largest. But other measures are grim. California’s new status as the world’s fourth-largest economy “is a piece of history that is contradicted by ...