Poll: Economists, Businesses and Home Owners Still Pessimistic about the Economy By Oregon Tax News Economists: The National Association of Business Economics (NABE) recently released a survey by top economists forecasting that the economy will grow at a slower pace than expected over the next couple of years. The 46 […]

What the election means for business — Four views from four business commentaries and reports from The Wall Street Journal, Chamber of Commerce, Forbes Magazine and BusinessWeek. Wall Street Journal in “Businesses Seek to Sway Incoming Wave of Republicans” “Executives at the Business Roundtable, a group made up of the […]

This weekend, national news magazine 60 Minutes aired a segment about taxing the rich. The story included a lot of attention on Washington’s Income Tax on High Earners Measure 1098 and also a cameo from a former businessman who fled Portland to escape Oregon’s tax climate. Text highlight of ex-Portland […]

AD WATCH By Oregon Small Business Association Media savvy NIKE has delivered an ad that goes to the heart of the James LeBron controversy. A controversy that one CBS Sports analyst said “The hatred of LeBron James is getting totally out of control. It’s starting to make people lose all […]

October Most Ridiculous Lawsuit Poll – The ‘Price of Beauty’ Edition By Tim Gilmore By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Neanderthal Man gave way to Cro-Magnon Man, who gave way to Modern Man, who gave way to The Metrosexual Man – the species of man that routinely gets his hair styled, […]

Labor Force Participation by Group Unemployment Rates Increased Among All Groups By Oregon Employment Department Oregon’s unemployment rate jumped from 6.4 percent in 2008 to 11.5 percent in 2009 as the effects of the recession spread throughout the state. Unemployed Oregonians in all race and ethnicity groups struggled to find […]

Bend Couple Charged with $4.4 Million Investment Scheme Federal Bureau of Investigations _ Portland EUGENE, OR—A federal grand jury sitting in Eugene, Oregon today returned an indictment against Tamara Sawyer, 47, and Kevin Sawyer, 58, of Bend, Oregon, on a variety of charges, including conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud, and […]

Prepaid Registration: Will U.S. Consumers Be Required to Show Photo ID When Buying a Cell Phone? By Bob Stankey, Danielle Frappier, and Bradley W. Guyton Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP The use of a prepaid mobile telephone by the Times Square bomber has again raised the question of whether the identity […]

A Note on Public Sector Worker Pay By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog . . I have no beef with Ted Sickinger’s nice piece on compensation for public and private workers. He does as good a job as one could ask for in trying to make sense of the issue, […]

Last Saturday the Wall Street Journal printed this editorial over the State of Washington’s initiative I-1082.  The editorial is below. Oregon Vs. Washington By Wall Street Journal Editorial Board In the battle to promote growth and job creation, Washington state is especially important this election year. While the Bill Gates […]