Michael Hendrix Director, Research & Emerging Issues U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Bitcoin isn’t real money. It isn’t a unit of account, doesn’t store value, and is a poor medium of exchange. Bitcoin is simply a payment technology—in the midst of what looks like the biggest bubble in recent memory. […]

First Quarter 2013: Higher Wage Workers Saw Faster Wage Growth Over the Past Decade by Barbara E Peniston Oregon Employment Department Have your wages been keeping up with inflation? An inspection of year-to-year changes in median quintile wages might lead you to believe that this is not the case – […]

by J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon industries A little-known provision of the “Grand Bargain” supported by AOI and passed by the Oregon Legislature in October gives Oregon export companies a limited window to qualify for significant Oregon tax savings. One of the provisions of HB 3601, which was passed by the […]

By Steve Buckstein Cascade Policy Institute Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, fresh off his early October special legislative session “Grand Bargain” success, says he will now turn his attention to tax reform. He has plenty of company in Oregon’s recent history. Governor Barbara Roberts, concerned that property tax limitation Measure 5 […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon The Oregon economy continues to experience moderate growth. Highlights of the report include: The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity stood at -0.20 in October, effectively unchanged from the previous month. The three-month moving average, which […]

CNN Money interviews the CEO of COIN which has created a new single card to represent all of your credit cards, debit cards,membership and gift cards into a single card. Watch the video news clip below.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce If you went out to lunch today, you might have noticed “grassroots” protesters trying to put lumps of coal in employers’ stockings.  USA Today reports on these stunts engineered by the SEIU: In Washington, D.C., dozens of people carried signs and marched while singing “Jingle bells, […]

Barran Liebman Oregon Law Firm Fifth Circuit Strikes Down NLRB’s Controversial DR Horton Decision In a much anticipated decision, the Fifth Circuit reversed the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and held that an employer may require employees to sign an arbitration agreement that precludes collective action claims. D.R. Horton, Incorporated […]

by David Cooke Oregon Employment Dept. Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent in October, its lowest point since October 2008 when the rate was also 7.7 percent. The rate was 7.8 percent in September and 8.1 percent in August. Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate continued to […]

Tech firms uneven employee retention rates. By Oregon Small Business Association