By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog. This post is excerpted from the Western Section of the December 2012 Economic and Revenue Forecast document. For a more complete discussion surrounding the material, please refer to the full document. The following employment graphs show the depth of job losses […]

Cybersecurity and Privacy in the News By Oregon Tax News, Walden outlines agenda Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman of the Communications and Technology subcommittee, outlined his agenda for the new year. He plans to work on freeing up more government spectrum for commercial broadband. He will also push for implementation […]

Apple CEO pay is very different. CNN Money does this breakdown in this video below.

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Because of the health care law, 2013 may not be good for hiring. USA Today reports: Many businesses plan to bring on more part-time workers next year, trim the hours of full-time employees or curtail hiring because of the new health care law, human resource […]

Oregon Court of Appeals affirms 200-1 ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages from Ater-Wynne: NW Business Litigation The Oregon Court of Appeals  affirmed a jury award of $100,000 in punitive damages in a case where compensatory damages were $500. The Court applied the standards set forth by the Oregon […]

by Eric Fruits, pH.D Oregon economist Econ-International Blog Gov. John Kitzhaber’s call for a rush-rush emergency session of the Legislature has succeeded in getting Oregonians to think again about their tax system. More important, it’s gotten us to think about how we tax our businesses and which ones we tax. […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog.. Here is Oregon’s actual labor force over the past 10 years. Everything was going well until the Great Recession after which labor force growth stalled and held steady in outright numbers — which is to be expected — however since 2012 […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce A lawsuit by a driver who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs and then sued a victim that he killed tops the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) survey of the Top Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2012, released […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog One of the most important lessons economists try and teach new economics students is that costs are both monetary and non-monetary and that in economics costs include opportunity costs: the value of the next best thing you give up by choosing […]