Out of 435 congressional districts, 420 districts had higher growth in exports to China in 2011 than they did to other markets around the globe. By U.S.-China Business Council   – Congressional districts all over the country are seeing exports to China outpace exports to the rest of the world […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon The Portland-area economy continued to outperform the rest of the state in June. As noted in previous reports, the regional measures are prone to potentially large swings due to the volatility of some of the […]

Oregon Business News Note, Soft computer sales are tearing into both Dell and Hewlett Packard. Stock prices are reflecting their change. Below is a CNN news commentary on what is causing their fall and what may be their last hope to turn around. View video below.

By Business News Note, NIKE and Anheuser-Busch are keeping their contracts with Lance Armstrong in light of the US Anti-Doping Agency banning him for life from cycling racing. The agency also wanted Lance to be removed from his Tour de France titles. Armstrong has announced he is not challenging the […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce The CBO released its latest report and it’s even more dismal than the one they released in January. In January, the CBO said “The U.S. budget deficit will shrink this year to $1.1 trillion…The deficit, which would be down from last year’s $1.3 trillion, will […]

State Supreme Court Petitioned on Critical Workers’ Compensation Issue By Oregon NFIB, NFIB/Oregon is joining an effort led by Associated Oregon Industries (AOI) to petition the Oregon Supreme Court on behalf of Oregon limited liability companies (LLCs).  NFIB alerted its members a few months ago about a recent decision by […]

Occasional handyman is an employee for Oregon unemployment tax purposes Ater Wynne LLP NW Law frim The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a handyman was an employee, and not an independent contractor, for unemployment tax purposes. Under Oregon law, an independent contractor must be both “free from direction and […]

From Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog From the New York Times with an accompanying article about taxes and services. Not sure we want to be Italy, yikes, but Germany always makes an interesting comparator: high income country with a humming economy and yet a cripplingly high tax burden. Go figure.

By Guest Opinion, A Nashville firm, Red Pepper, is expanding the use of facial recognition software to whole new level in a test project called Facedeals. By using store cameras with facial-recognition technology connected to Facebook to access a consumer’s profile in order to email them instant deals to their […]

Governor Jerry Brown has authroized this summer fast tracking of the process to build Apple Computer’s new headquarters in Cupertino California. The project will be a sprawling 175 acre campus. Read more here