Readers of my blog may already know, as I have posted on this previously , but there are few things things that get under my skin as much as...

The three readers of my blog will know that I enjoy both beer and the beer business. So when I travel, I always try and learn about local b...

On OPB last week Ethan Lindsey reported on the firing of a reporter for the Bend Bulletin wherein it was suggested that housing industry po...

The latest Case- Shiller data shows definite softening of the Portland market in January. This happened last year too, though not nearly to...

Sorry for the slow blogging, I am in Nashville to work with a colleague at Vanderbilt on a research project studying child labor. I will hav...

NPR recently did a story on the decline in Burglaries in the United States . They interviewed a reformed burglar who said that people don...

I once joked to my colleague, as he criticized me for being lazy by suggesting taking the elevator from the first to the third floor of our ...

A few odds and ends re: housing and Portland. First, something appears to be working in the long term mortgage market. Here is the graph o...

It was only a few days ago I was lecturing in my economic development class about the Asian financial crisis of the late 90s - real estate s...

From Altos Research (and for what it is worth), some data about the housing supply and demand conditions in Portland: a 10 city composite a...

Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker recently wrote a review of a book about behavioral economics which she uses as an opportunity to crit...

I recently, and shamelessly, posted about the Cornell University men's basketball team going to the NCAA Tournament (see how I have now...

It is finally time to get back to something I mentioned in an earlier Beeronomics post and something that was posed to me as a bit of a puzz...

Finals are around the corner and I have been busy so I have been lax in my bloggitorial duties, fortunately Fred Thompson is here to rescue...

This story has been getting a lot of circulation: Bill Sizemore finally realizes that taxes and government services are connected. Brings m...

One of the examples I often use in my intermediate microeconomics lectures to motivate the idea of public finance and public goods is an ex...

Okay, so I could not resist posting about the Cornell University Men's Basketball Team's first trip to the NCAA Basketball Tourname...

This act of arson , apparently an example of ' eco -terrorism,' has me thinking that the perpetrators (assuming environmental motiv...

It is my distinct pleasure to welcome a guest blogger to The Oregon Economics Blog. Fred Thompson , Director of the Center for Governance an...

Corvallis is not a big town. So it is quite a thrill to welcome Block 15 Brewery to the local beer scene. [Block 15 is the first true brewp...