By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog One of the indicators used in our office’s Oregon Index of Leading Indicators is Help Wanted Ads. The theoretical basis for this is straight forward: if a business wants to hire another employee, the firm places an ad to notify prospective […]

Starbucks Leads the Way in Mobile Payments By Oregon Small Business Association Ordering a double-shot latte is easier and faster these days using Starbucks’ mobile payment program. Even before its recent $25 million investment in Square, the San Francisco mobile payments startup, Starbucks had been processing a million mobile-phone transactions […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog The economist has a nifty little discussion about the decline of the car in high income countries.  Here are two provocative graphs:

— Oregon Court of Appeals dismisses age discrimination suit for failure to follow employer’s ADR policy Ater Wynne LLP NW Law frim Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an employee’s age discrimination claim under state law for failure to comply with the employer’s grievance and […]

By NFIB Oregon The increasing threat of cybersecurity breaches are affecting small businesses in a big way. As with everything, knowledge is the power to protect yourself, which is why NFIB is encouraging its members in the Bend and Medford areas to attend a free, two-hour presentation by nationally recognized […]

NIKE’s slowdown in China is a bellwether for other firms in America. It impacts businesses down the chain.You can see their stock changes to the right on the video. See CNN Money report below:

“[H]igher education has literally never been more flush with cash than it is today, even after adjusting for the effects of inflation. The bottom line is that institutions have made no significant efforts whatsoever to keep their expenses in check. If you want to keep college affordable, this should be […]

By Portland Business Alliance The Portland Business Alliance board of directors today announced its positions on a number of ballot measures and its endorsement of several candidates. A complete list is below. Dennis Rawlinson, chair of the Alliance’s board of directors and firm chair of Miller Nash, made the following […]

Who’s hiring in Oregon? — Where the new jobs are By Oregon Small Business Association Consumer Cellular opens 650 jobs When T-Mobile closed its call center earlier this year, 359 workers lost their jobs. Those employees were offered positions at other T-Mobile locations. But now they have another option. Consumer […]

Oregon Unemployment Aug. 2012 By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog Just a few updates on Oregon (un)employment following the Employment Department’s release of August 2012 data this morning. With the strong gains seen in recent months in the payroll data (survey of businesses), employment is now tracking […]