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Walters: Newsom flaunts state’s economy yet downplays its mounting deficit

California’s economic output has surpassed $4 trillion a year and in doing so slipped past Japan to become, were it a nation, the globe’s fourth largest economy, surpassed only by the United States, China and Germany. The news was an opportunity for Gov. Gavin Newsom to exercise his penchant for braggadocio. “California isn’t just keeping pace