Obama economists’ jobless predictions off by 2.9 million By Dr. Eric Fruits, EconInternational Recovery Report Card – Revised Jobless Predictions: In January, Administration economists Romer & Bernstein predicted that stimulus spending would mean that unemployment at the end of this year would be 7.6 percent. Now, Christina Romer, chairwoman of […]

Article by J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s Largest Business Lobby SB 519 gets sent back to committee, indicating lack of support. AOI initiated its most intense grassroots efforts of the 2009 Session this week on SB 519, also known as the “Employer Gag Bill.”  SB 519 makes it illegal […]

By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC I tried to get excited about the latest news, focusing on non-residential construction.  (No hope any time soon for residential activity.)  Here’s the private non-res data:

Advertising Age reports:”After an at times tumultuous relationship with ad agencies, the No. 1 job site in the country, CareerBuilder, will no longer work with an agency of record and is taking its advertising in-house. The move ends CareerBuilder’s two-year run with Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore., which picked up […]

What the Beer data means for Oregon By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog I stumbled across this little tidbit when I was looking for some coverage of Boston Brewing’s Q1 report (the essence is business is down at Boston Brewing about 5%).  Here is the interesting passage from the Patriot […]