Thursday, December 10, 2009

California Default Watch 2

Controller Releases November 2009 Cash Report

PR09:031
12/10/2009
Contact: Jacob Roper
916-445-2636

SACRAMENTO – State Controller John Chiang today released his monthly report covering California’s cash balance, receipts and disbursements in November. The month’s receipts were relatively close to estimates, down by 0.7% or $40.8 million.

“While revenues largely held up for two months, the next eight weeks will be far more telling of the State’s fiscal health,” said Chiang. “Record unemployment, at levels not seen for three decades, continues to aggravate California’s structural budget deficit.”

The receipts from tax deadlines in December and January are generally reliable indicators of expected Spring tax receipts.

Year-to-date revenues remain below the amended 2009-10 budget’s estimates by $835 million or -2.8%. But lower-than-anticipated State expenses combined with an additional $1 billion in external borrowing put the State’s cash position $610 million ahead of its projected level on November 30.

The State started the fiscal year with an $11.9 billion cash deficit in the General Fund, which grew to $24.4 billion by November 30. Those deficits are being covered with a combination of $15.6 billion of internal borrowing from special funds and $8.8 billion in short-term revenue anticipation notes.

November 2009's financial statement and the summary analysis can be found on the Controller’s Web site at www.sco.ca.gov.

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There's no words for this that discerning readers cannot see for themselves. Internal borrowing is "not paying bills" and "short-term revenue anticipation notes" is more debt.

6 comments:

Property Flopper said...

Not to worry... they'll just trudge along until we get close to the end of the fiscal year. THEN all hell breaks loose.

This year's budget "magic" will make last years look like sound accounting. The budget is still wildly off balance and all the tricks they used last year to push things forward... well, that's all coming due.

Property Flopper said...

And yeah... FIRST...

W.C. Varones said...

Obama bin Bailin will just come along and give them more backdoor bailouts painted as "stimulus" or "unemployment loans."

If they bailed out AIG, FNM, FRE, C, GM, GMAC, etc., because they were all "too big to fail," obviously California is too big to fail. Obama will shovel them billions and his printmeister Zimbabwe Ben will just crank up the printing presses to buy all the new Treasury debt.

Unknown said...

And when you say "they" you mean... wait, remind us again. Who do you mean?

Bob said...

Internal borrowing is "not paying bills" and "short-term revenue anticipation notes" is more debt.

Well, you still have "Unused Borrowable Resources" goin' for ya.

Pleather Murse said...

It's fun watching babylon slowly burn to the ground even if we do happen to be in the middle of it. Time to invest in lead methinks.