Who’s Laying Off & Moving? By Oregon Small Business Association Vestas’ 200 Oregon jobs soon gone with the wind As of early May, the Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, is increasingly pointing all turbines towards Colorado. All indications by Chris Brown, Vestas’ North American President, point towards “site […]

by Bill Conerly, Oregon economist Conerly Consulting, Businomics One Down Quarter for the Economy Is Not a Recession The rough rule of thumb is that a recession has two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP.* Why not just one quarter? We have a good example of why not […]

Business Oregon Leads Delegation of Six Oregon Companies to the National Innovation Summit From Business Oregon Business Oregon will lead an Oregon delegation of six technology companies as well as university representatives as they present their ideas for new technologies at the third National Innovation Summit June 15-18 in Washington, […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog The Upshot, The New York Times‘s answer to FiveThirtyEight edited by David Leonhardt has some fantastic poll data about soccer around the world.  Here are the two charts from the article:

By Bullard Law, Portland law firm NLRB Says Cussing Out Your Employer Is OK If You Are Upset About Work By Michael G. McClory According to the National Labor Relations Board website, the Board “protects the rights of most private-sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to […]

Barran Liebman Oregon Law Firm Hot Wings, Chilling Effect Earlier this week, a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) judge found that a Hooters franchise in Ontario, California had unlawfully fired a waitress who was friends with a coworker that had complained about forced participation in an allegedly rigged bikini contest, […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon Oregon’s economy continued to grow at an above average rate in April. Highlights of the report include: – The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity fell to 0.30 in April, compared to a revised 0.92 the […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation By Russ Wilson, IBM Director, Mobile Innovation Lab Mobile payments technology combined with Big Data analytics will completely transform the relationship between buyer and seller. Mobile-based transactions in the U.S. have quietly gone mainstream, growing 118% per year on average for the last five years. […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest greenhouse gas proposal will harm the nation’s economy, rural communities and America’s farm and ranch families if implemented, the American Farm Bureau Federation said today. The EPA’s attempt to impose a 30-percent reduction in carbon dioxide on the nation’s power […]

Davis Dwight & Tremaine LLP Oregon business law firm Recent news stories have highlighted the negative privacy implications of facial recognition technology. For example, a new app for Google Glass will pair facial recognition with data from social media and dating sites, allowing users to instantly see personal information about […]