Various Dem-apologist media sources routinely make up rankings of states by various criteria–quality of life, business climate, etc. They are all lies, the methodology is simply laughable. But they provide fodder for idiots like little Timmy Walz, Minnesota’s governor, to claim their rapidly declining states are actually doing fine. The primary antidote to these lying rankings is the actual movement of people and business. Dem run states are losing both in droves and blue states are gaining them rapidly. The latest piece of shit ranking comes from CNBC, which has to know better but which is of course run by Dem ideologues, those who run far-left NBC TV. It claimed to rank the top states for business in 2025. The methodology is actually hilarious to read.
Supposedly 150 metrics in 30 categories are used, with weighting according to the states’ own promotional material, which is beyond puzzling. Maybe the weighting should be around what seems to actually matter to businesses. Minnesota is ranked 10th, somehow Little Timmy turned that into 5th. It is astounding that the state is ranked 10th, when it is ranked 28th on economy, 30th on workforce and 34th and cost of doing business. All of those would seem to be really important to companies. It ranks 4th on quality of life, which is a joke for anyone who lives here, and it ranked 5th on infrastructure–apparently the rankers haven’t driven on our roads lately. CNBC doesn’t actually reveal the full details of its methodology but the narrative description includes such ludicrous items as reproductive rights–some workers may not want to live in states with abortion bans. No wonder Minnesota ranks well, since it allows murdering viable infants up to and past the moment of birth. And of course there is the usual climate nonsense.
The highest ranked states overall are North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Virginia and Ohio. You will note that at the time of the rankings, all of those states except Virginia are red states, with red state policies. Virginia will soon drop out of the top of even this garbage ranking. If CNBC wants to be taken seriously, it should reveal the exact metrics, the exact source of the data it uses for each metric and each state, the weighting of each metric and why, and should explain why it ignores some clearly relevant data, like the actual movement of businesses and workers across states. And taxes seem to be largely ignored, more explanation of that oversight should be explained. Meanwhile, despite rankings that Little Timmy can pimp, Minnesotans know the state is in big trouble. (CNBC Rankings)
