Word of this came through at the last minute, but if you’re sitting at a desk wishing you were working for yourself instead of someone else, or if you just wish you were working period, you may want to alter your happy hour plans. The Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network is hosting a panel discussion from 5:15-7 […]
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The One Percent Is Close to Full Recovery
In a PDF, Emmanuel Saez of UC Berkeley writes: From 2009 to 2012, average real income per family grew modestly by 6.0% (Table 1). Most of the gains happened in the last year when average incomes grew by 4.6% from 2011 to 2012. However, the gains were very uneven. Top 1% incomes grew by 31.4% […]
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The PDX Collective Sale
At the end of every season, some of the city’s most heavy hitting boutiques come together for what is not merely a sale but an event. If you only shop for clothing once or twice a year, now is an excellent time to do so, because prices will be slashed up to 80%. It’s called […]
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Amazon Wants to Take Its Fight Against Collecting Sales Taxes to the Supreme Court
Says Jeff Blagdon at The Verge: More than a year after Amazon began collecting sales tax on sales in states like Texas and California, it’s mounting a legal offensive against a requirement to do the same thing in New York, taking its argument to the US Supreme Court. And the Financial Times writes that the […]
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BREAKING: Jack Bogdanski Still Fighting Portland’s Arts Tax
Perhaps with a flair for timing, law professor and erstwhile blogger Jack “Bojack” Bogdanski has made good on his promise to keep on battling Portland’s arts tax. City Attorney James Van Dyke, during this afternoon’s work session on fixing the tax, announced that Bogdanski is appealing an Oregon Tax Court ruling that said it lacked […]
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President Obama Talks About the Economy and the Middle Class
The full text of his speech can be found here (in the video his speech starts at the 49 minute mark). The crux of the speech is this: With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs […]
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A New Economic Agenda from Obama
He’s rolling it out this week: Mr. Obama’s offensive will begin on Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill., with what his aides are saying will be a major address on economic policy at Knox College… White House officials liken Wednesday’s speech to one he gave in 2011 in Osawatomie, Kan., where he articulated the theme of economic […]
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Libertarianism Never Works in the Real World
Lynn Stuart Parramore’s article about what happened when a libertarian took the reigns of Sears should be read by everyone who wants to see what happens when libertarianism is applied to the real world. Libertarian ideals always fail in practice, and when you try to say that to a libertarian—Alan Greenspan sinking the global economy […]
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Stand Around and Look Interested in Something… For Big Bucks!!
When you think about it ACTING is nothing more than standing around looking interested in things that you really don’t give two flying handshakes about… and you do that already, right? So make some money while doing it by being an extra for the upcoming season of NBC’s Grimm (shot right here in Portland). Here […]
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Activists Protest Scrubbing Women from English Currency
Activists dressed as suffragettes rallied outside of the Bank of England today, protesting the bank’s recent decision to replace the only woman currently featured on the country’s banknotes—social (and prison) reformer Elizabeth Fry—with a man. Via Rawstory: A row erupted over the representation of women on banknotes when Carney’s predecessor, Sir Mervyn King, announced as […]
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195,000 Jobs Added in June, as US Remains Not Europe
The US economy added 195,000 jobs in June, and the prior two months’ estimates were revised upward, bringing the three-month average to 196,000 a month. More than half the jobs were added in low-wage sectors like restaurants, retail, and employment services, the kind of jobs people resort to when better paying ones aren’t available. That’s […]
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Unions Challenge the Pension Reform that Eased Portland’s Budget Plight
Alex Despain As promised, a coalition of unions are challenging reforms to the state’s Public Employee Retirement System passed in Salem this year. Portland Attorney Greg Hartman on Monday filed a petition for review with the Oregon Supreme Court, asking the court to rule the changes in Senate Bill 822 amount to a breach of […]