New Interest Rate Forecast: Staying Low through 2011 By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics, I now forecast that interest rates will continue to be at their current low levels through the end of 2011. The economy has substantial slack.  The level of our GDP is still 1.1 percentage point beneath […]

By Oregon Tax News, Recovery.org has listed their update on where and how federal stimulus dollars are being spent.  When comparing dollars per person, Oregon ends up in the national state average. Oregon is above the average for teh speed at which funds are sent to contractors. 1. CA – […]

Oregon Court of Appeals affirms decertification of class action Ater Wynne Oregon Law Firm Last week the Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to decertify a class action against US Bank.  In Belknap v. US Bank, the plaintiffs claimed that defendant employer failed to timely pay a […]

San Francisco Home Values Rise 50%, What About Portland? By Oregon Small Business Association In San Francisco, home and condominium sales jumped 50 percent in the first quarter of 2010 from last year. According to a multiple listings analysis by Terradatum, the median price rose 5.4 percent, to $685,000. The […]

Supreme Court issues Favorable Ruling for Employers in Texting/Privacy Case by Jim Shore Stoel Rives, Oregon law firm The United States Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated decision in City of Ontario v. Quon, unanimously ruling that a search of sexually explicit personal text messages sent by a police officer using […]

FCC Effort to Regulate the Internet Jeopardizes Jobs U.S. Chamber of Commerce WASHINGTON, D.C.–“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today expressed deep concern about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) notice of inquiry (NOI) on the best legal framework for broadband Internet access. “Regulating the dynamic, competitive broadband industry with rules originally […]

BDO Study Identifies Leading Risk Factors At 100 Largest Public Retailers By BDO The following is the list of the Top 20 Risk Factors of the Largest U.S. Retailers: 1.  General Economic Conditions 96% 2.  U.S.& Foreign Supplier/Vendor Concerns 86% 3.  Competition & Consolidation in Retail Sector 85% 4.  Credit […]

Grandfathering Rules Eliminate Choice, Flexibility for Small Businesses By National Association of Small Business WASHINGTON, D.C., June 14, 2010 — Susan Eckerly, senior vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s leading small business association, issued the following statement in response to the latest rules on grandfathered health […]

Here is the BP television ad that has hit the airwaves about the Gulf oil spill. These Gulf oil spill response ads can be seen on many news channels which highlight the help BP is offering the gulf.

Oregon statewide unemployment for May 2010 By David Cooke, Economist Oregon Employment Department Oregon’s Employment Situation: May 2010 Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 10.6 percent in May, the same as in March and April. The rate has been essentially unchanged for the most recent seven months. Oregon’s unemployment rate […]