Friday Links

As promised I have been lame this week and there is probably much more lameness in the near future.

In that vein, I shall now punt and direct you to some interesting reads.

Josh Lehner at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis has a couple of very nice posts about the employment situation in Oregon.

Here is a teaser:

In the old "correlation is not causation" vein, Justin Wolfers takes on the Economist in the Freakonomics Blog.  Here is another teaser:

Finally, how does Oregon's unemployment rate compare?  See the Wall Street Journal for some interesting discussion.  And, of course, the tease: