Oregon Economics Blog The latest Case-Shiller numbers are out and, after a long hiatus, I thought I’d pour through the numbers.  The beat place to start is at the Wall Street Journal‘s Real Time Economics blog where you can find a sortable chart as well as a link to some […]

Don’t expand agency “business closing” power By Oregon Small Business Association State Representative Bill Kennemer is warning the public against HB 2386 that would give the Oregon labor Commissioner more power to close a business by removing an Oregon judge from the process. Currently, a judge provides both sides of […]

By William B. Conerly, Ph.D. Guest article from Cascade Policy Institute Why have gasoline prices come down so much? Certainly global prices for crude oil have dropped, but why did the local gas station operator drop prices that you and I pay? A year ago I filled my tank for […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog The Columbian is reporting that the Cowlitz Tribe now has a reservation in La Center, Wash. after a decade-long legal battle. I do not know enough about the legal process, taking land in trust, potential challenges and the like to comment […]

Davis Dwight & Tremaine LLP Oregon business law firm FTC and State AGs: Political Survey Preface Does Not Allow Sales Robocalls to Avoid Do-Not-Call and Telemarketing Sales Rule Compliance By Ronald G. London and Bryan Thompson Marketing and Consumer Privacy The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 10 state Attorneys General […]

By Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation A rare bipartisan effort for a major tax reform has been advanced with SB 661 which aims to fix Oregon’s 1800’s tax structure that finds itself destroying 21st Century technology. Two lawmakers stand-out on this issue, State Senator Mark Hass who began and championed […]

Small Business owners are concerned over HB 3177 which could lead to a fast and furious rise in new taxes. By Oregon Small Business Association Oregon Small Business is concerned over HB 3177 which would reduce the threshold for State Lawmakers to raise taxes by eliminating tax cuts, deductions, credits […]

Congressman Kurt Schrader U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-05) joined Congressmen Patrick E. Murphy (FL-18) and Mick Mulvaney (SC-05) to introduce the Regulatory Improvement Act of 2015, bipartisan legislation to reform the Federal Code of Regulations by creating a commission tasked with eliminating and revising outdated and redundant federal regulations. The […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog Death and taxes, right? Literally, in this case. In all seriousness, Oregon’s estate and inheritance tax is one that our office has trouble with in recent years. We did not initially build in a large enough drop in revenues due to […]

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, discusses Apple’s possible plans which include following Google and Facebook into their investment plans into augmented reality technology. Augmented reality helps to blend information and people’s reality in real-time. Watch the video clip below.