Note, this document with tables and was long and complicated to plunk directly into the blog, so I had to resort to Scribd.   Fred Thomps...

...to bring the news that it's one-nil to the Arsenal! Yikes!  Barca leveled it up before I could even finish the post.  Messi, the du...

Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian Just a note to guide you to John Foyston's piece in today's Oregonian on Ninkasi .  Some highlights:...

The Oregonian had a scathing editorial this weekend about the states sorry attempt at 'Race for the Top' funds .  One wonders why t...

  Okay, so maybe I am a "beer economist" after all  turns out it is working out pretty nicely for me.  I was, for the first time, ...

Click on the graph to go to an interactive version. This was created by Catherine Rampell of The New York Times

The US added 162,000 jobs in March and even when accounting for the large number of jobs provided by the Census, there were still well over...

It is April 1 and traditionally this would be the moment for a witty, clever April Fool's joke, but I am neither witty nor clever so I...

Feel better? Didn't think so...

The normally very reliable James Surowiecki of The New Yorker blunders badly this week in his column about thriving businesses that focus o...

Completely farmed out to the Wall Street Journal .  Portland and Seattle are down again and fairly significantly, they are two of the top fo...

Little time on this first day of the Spring term, so I'll point to an interesting, but quite misguided critique of economics by David Br...

Earlier this week I was disturbed by the front page article in The Oregonian  which insinuated that many Oregon businesses were soon to leav...

Portland ranks 12th as a city for the energy efficiency of its commercial buildings.

WARNING: SPRING BREAK USELESS POST AHEAD What is an American Soccer team supposed to do, try to be distinctly American or nod to the tradi...

The future of the Made in Oregon sign has been determined. Thanks Randy... UPDATE: My favorite libertarian, Jacob Grier, is unhappy th...

Photo Credit: Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian Saks Fifth Avenue is closing its two Pioneer Place locations .  Recessions are tough on purveyors ...

Here is Greg Mankiw on the health care bill : Well, it appears certain that the healthcare reform bill will become law. One thing I have b...

Oops, should have posted this prior to my appearance, but alas it is spring break... Here I am, trying desperately not to embarrass myself...

The Wall Street Journal has this exceptional site, EconTracker , that is a compendium of economics statistics and indicators, along with ch...