Treasurer Wheeler declares $5 million in earnings from Oregon Growth Account to aid schools Recent distribution from successful investment allows for second declaration in two years By Oregon State Treasurer, TIGARD – Oregon will benefit from the state’s investments in emerging companies.  Treasurer Wheeler on Thursday announced returns of $5 […]

More Employees Quitting–Good News for the Economy, Maybe Bad for Your Business By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics, Nearly two million people quit their jobs last month, and I think that’s good news.  Maybe not for you, but it’s a sign of confidence by these workers.  Surveys of consumer attitudes […]

By Tim Duy, Oregon Economic Forum University of Oregon Portland Metro Business Index . sponsor, KeyBank. The University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators™ rose 0.2% percent in April to 89.2 (1997=100) from a revised March figure of 89.1.  Although all indicators improved compared to six months ago, the pace […]

Tim Boyle, Columbia Sportswear CEO and President Speech before the Portland Business Alliance, It does seem like a long time ago when I last spoke to the PBA, and mostly what I remember about that day is this: Someone in our PR department suggested that we should be ready for […]

By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog Over the weekend, Greg Mankiw used his Economic View column in The New York Times to address the ides of taxing soft drinks.   He argues that they are sin taxes and not Pigovian taxes because they are designed to save users from themselves, but […]

Gun sales take surprise drop By Oregon Tax News, As industry revenue levels recede this year, potential for modest growth in gun and ammunition sales through 2015 may still exist. The National Rifle Association (NRA) held its annual meeting in May in Charlotte, North Carolina. The general theme outlined the […]

Bloomberg Businessweek released their top 100 tech companies with Chian crowding out the US for the top spot.  China has the #1 and #3 spots.   The U.S. however has 44% of the total 100 listings whereas China has only 8%, Japan 11%, Taiwan 8%, India 6% and Brazil 5%. 1. […]

Oregon Small Business Association, Portland lost 23,000 jobs according to the U.S. Census Bureau.   suffering a 2.82% decline.  The greatest declines came from Las Vegas, Wichita, Sacramento and Cape Coral (FL) with over a 4% decline in workers.  The single biggest raw number declines came from Chicago (-101,500), Los […]

Video game maker, Electronic Arts, has released a new ad with Tiger Woods and it is a vast departure from the somber and serious one that Nike issued a few weeks ago. Below are three videos: 1.  New Electronic Acts video 2.  Previous Electronic Arts Tiger video 3.  Nike ad […]

Oregon Population: Always on the Rise by Brooke Jackson-Winegardner Oregon Employment Department The population of a state increases when there are more births than deaths (a natural increase), when more people move in than move out (net in-migration), or both. Every year the U.S. Census Bureau provides estimates of how […]