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 […]

Tackling Oregon’s Budget Woes By  J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon Industries, Associated Oregon Industries, in concert with some of Oregon’s leading business and trade associations, is devoting much of 2010 to an effort to address the State of Oregon’s projected $2.5 billion deficit for fiscal years 2011-13. Economists predict that Oregon […]

By Ronnie London & Micah Ratner Davis, Wright and Tremaine LLP The FTC announced on May 19, 2010, that on April 8, a Northern District of California judge issued a permanent injunction shutting down an ISP—Pricewert LLC—that primarily hosted spam, botnets, trojan horses, viruses, child pornography, and spyware.  ICANN and […]

By Oregon Employment Department, Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.6 percent in April, the same level as in March. The rate has been essentially unchanged for the most recent six months. Oregon’s unemployment rate was 11.5 percent in April 2009. In April, 211,688 Oregonians were unemployed. In […]

By Tim Duy, Oregon Economic Forum University of Oregon Portland Metro Business Index . sponsor, KeyBank. The University of Oregon Portland Metro Business Index (PMBI) rose 1.2% percent to 88.9 (2002=100) in the first quarter of 2010.  Compared to year ago levels, the PMBI is down just 2.5 percent, a […]

By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics, This is my third (and maybe final) post in the series on the economic effects of our budget deficit and debt.  First I talked about the risk of inflation due to the deficit, then about the potential of a debt crisis in America.  In […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Earlier this week Google Inc. announced the amount of economic impact that Google had on each state in 2009. In Oregon, 28,500 advertisers and publishers benefitted to the tune of $510.5 million, either by placing their ads on Google or by placing Google advertisements on […]

Merkley Joins Robert Menendez and Bill Nelson to Close Tax Loopholes, Save Taxpayers $20 Billion Over 10 Years Senator Jeff Merkley Press Release Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) joined Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) today to announce legislation that will close a number of […]