Michael Hendrix Director, Research & Emerging Issues Forum for Innovation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Have we just popped a Bitcoin bubble? If you haven’t heard of Bitcoins before, they’re a digital currency with no central monetary authority, instead sourcing, verifying, and trading coinage through peer-to-peer networks. They can also be […]

 County Population Forecast By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog. One important item our office produces that flies somewhat under the radar unless you are in local government or land use issues on a regular basis is the county level population forecast. Kanhaiya, the state demographer, recently finalized […]

By Oregon Prosperity Project Senate Bill 488 is the Costliest Legislation of All Our First Pillar of Prosperity is to create jobs and grow incomes for Oregonians. Now that nearly all of the legislation has been introduced for the 2013 Legislative Session, we can say that SB 488 poses the […]

The Standard The Standard’s Employee Giving Campaign Raises $1.7 Million For Nonprofits Employee participation was a record-breaking 51 percent, up ten percent from 2011 During the 2012 Employee Giving Campaign, current and retired employees at The Standard pledged more than $870,000 benefiting more than 1,127 nonprofit organizations. After a dollar-for-dollar […]

By Internal Revenue Service, The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from identity theft to return preparer fraud. The Dirty Dozen listing, compiled by the […]

A restaurant in New York became one of the first restaurants to accept Bitcoin — an online currency created by computers and not by a government body. Watch teh CNN video below.

Michael Hendrix Director, Research & Emerging Issues Forum for U.S. Innovation, US Chamber Whatever happened to tomorrow? We used to talk about a future brimming with unheard-of technologies. Just take a look at these vintage Popular Science covers to see what I mean. We used to dream big—and then something […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog. The following post takes a look at Oregon Lottery sales from both a high level perspective in terms of consumer spending trends and from a somewhat longer perspective over the business cycle. What follows below is the baseline outlook our office […]

Internet tax surfaces again  By Oregon Tax News, A bill proposed by three prominent U.S. senators would give states broad new taxing power over online retailers located outside their boundaries. The Marketplace Fairness Act was proposed in February by Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) […]

The Disability Monster: A More Sober Analysis Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with “Planet Money,” the This American Life way that NPR has chosen to cover economics issues. Taking the mannered, long-form story-telling approach to economics issues can […]