By Tim Duy, Oregon Economic Forum Highlights of latest report, The UO Index dropped 0.4 percent in July, but the overall behavior of the Index in recent months continues to indicate that Oregon will exit recession in the second half of 2009.  Highlights include: • Initial jobless claims edged drifted […]

The Wall Street Journal Reports, “In 2007, the top 1% of U.S. families accounted for 23.5% of all personal income in the U.S., according to economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics. That was a level not seen […]

By Oregon Biz Report, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest attempt to save California from one of the largest budget deficits in history involves a garage sale.  The Governor promoted the sale as a way to help the state balance its budget, which has topped $20 billion in debt this year.  The […]

By Oregon Tax News In statistics compiled by AACER (Automated Access to Court Electronic Records) Oregon ranked third in the nation in percentage increase for business bankruptcies between the first and second quarters of 2008. Oregon had 214 business bankruptcies in the first quarter growing to 375 in the second […]

Advertising and Quantitative Analysis: The Trial and Error Economy Comes to Madison Avenue By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC The economic recovery is coming, but not all businesses will gain from it.  Some executives will step outside to smell the sweet aroma of economic growth, only to find that […]

By U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 6.6 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was the largest productivity increase since the third quarter of 2003, and reflects declines of 1.5 […]

Family Owned Business Blog Ater Wynne Oregon Attorneys at Law The U. S. Supreme Court has approved proposed amendments on the computation of time under the Federal Rules of Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, and Criminal Procedure.  The amendments will take effect on December 1, 2009, unless Congress unexpectedly enacts legislation to […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits Econinternational The Portland mayor announced that the City Council has entered into an agreement with TriMet in which the City provides free bus passes to 14,000 students in Portland Public Schools. According to the agreement (pdf), the estimated cost of the program will be $3.64 million […]

Associated Oregon Industries, Oregon’s largest business advocate Published after each regular session, the AOI Oregon Business Report is Oregon’s most comprehensive record of how the legislature dealt with the important issues affecting Oregon’s business community and job creation in the private sector.  In the AOI Oregon Business Report you will […]

by World of Work Stoel Rives LLP, Attorneys at Law In SAIF Corp. v. Sprague, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld the workers’ compensation claim of an employee who sought coverage for gastric bypass surgery, on the grounds that the surgery was necessary to treat a decades-old on-the-job knee injury.  Sprague […]