By Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon is less than three months away from the next meeting of the Legislature and cap-and-trade is coming back. While California is setting the cap-and-trade example with sky-high power rates and rolling blackouts, Oregon’s State Senator Michael Dembrow is reworking the bill that failed to get […]

By Josh Lehner, Oregon office of Economic Analysis The longest running U.S. economic expansion marches on. Growth has slowed in 2019 and downside risks remain elevated. However, a recession is not yet seen in the data. Importantly, the two primary causes for concern are either improving – the yield curve […]

Congressman Greg Walden, Representative Greg Walden (R-Hood River) spoke at an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on the safety and national security concerns over the U.S. reliance on drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients manufactured abroad. As Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Walden has been committed to […]

By National Federation of Independent Business Here’s how Small Business Saturday has helped showcase small business owners and stimulate local economies.

By Oregon Small Business Association, After a two-week federal civil trial, jurors determined that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Local 8 in Portland caused $93.6 million in damages to the last container ship terminal operator at the Port of Portland. ICTSI Oregon Inc., which operated a container ship […]

Oregon US Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised Google’s decision to end microtargeting of political ads, which it announced last night. Wyden first called for an end to microtargeted online ads in August, and again in additional views to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on election interference released […]

By Rachel Dawson Cascade Policy Institute The Northwest Power and Conservation Council regularly assesses the adequacy of our region’s power supply using a loss of load probability (LOLP). This measure informs us that power supply is not adequate if 5% or more modeled simulations show insufficient generating capacity at any […]

By National Federation of Independent Business, Forty-eight business groups joined in strong opposition to Title IV of S. 2563, the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal Activity in Shell Holdings Act. The so-called ILLICIT CASH Act would impose duplicative, burdensome regulations on America’s smallest businesses and […]

Tim Duy, University of Oregon Economic Indicators This is the University of Oregon State of Oregon Economic Indicators for September 2019. The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rose to o.o4 in September, up from a downwardly revised -0.27 in August. Highlights of this month’s report include: – The moving average […]

By State Senator Alan Olsen Senate Committee On Environment and Natural Resources Excerpts from “The Reality of Cap & Trade” I would first like to state that climate change is happening, has happened in the past, back to the beginning of the earth, and will happen in the future. The […]