Article by Matthew Kish | Featured on Portland Business Journal State economists on Friday delivered an upbeat quarterly economic forecast that predicts state revenue will increase 8.7 percent in the 2017-19 two-year budget and more than 10 percent each of the ensuing biennium as Oregon’s economy outperforms other states. Economists cautioned the growth is not sustainable as […]
BY MICHEL ROSE AND CHINE LABBÉ | Article Featured on Reuters | The_Pixel / Shutterstock.com Dozens of French police raided Google’s Paris headquarters on Tuesday, escalating an investigation into the digital giant on suspicion of tax evasion. Google, which said it was fully complying with French law, is under pressure across Europe from public opinion and […]
By Annette Nellen, Esq., CPA, CGMA | Tax Adviser During tax season, the government continues to churn out many rulings, regulations, and statutory changes. Here is a roundup of some of the federal tax developments from the first few months of 2016. The first four months of 2016 resulted in one public law with tax […]
Hillsboro is now a six-figure city. That’s according to the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, which show Washington County’s largest city crossing the 100,000 barrier and joining Portland, Eugene, Salem and Gresham as Oregon cities in the six-figure club.
By Samurai Artist | Article & Images Featured on New School Beer Oregon Breweries won 19 medals at the 2016 World Beer Cup in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yesterday at the conclusion of Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America®. The Brewers Association (BA) announced the results to of one of the largest commercial beer competitions to date, the 2016 World Beer Cup. 16 Oregon breweries came […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission is particularly focused on the subsidiaries of financial services firms. Article by David M. Katz | Featured on cfo.com Riding a spike in Securities and Exchange Commission civil enforcement actions against corporate subsidiaries, the overall number of SEC enforcements against public companies and their units rose more than 50% in fiscal year […]
Article by Jeanne Sahadi | Featured on CNN Money Thanks to a major change in federal rules, millions of employees around the country will now become eligible for overtime pay. Everyone’s first assumption is that the rule change will mean bigger paychecks. But that may not necessarily be how it plays out for everyone. Today, […]
BY BENJAMIN P. HARDY | Featured on Inc.com If you don’t appreciate what you already have, then more won’t be a good thing in your life. One reason most people aren’t successful is that they believe myths they’ve been taught about success. The following myths need to be uprooted from our subconscious, so we can have […]
Article by Heather Long | Featured on CNN Money Puerto Rico is dialing 9-1-1 for any help it can get. The island was unable to make a $422 million debt payment due Monday. It’s another alarm bell of how bad the situation is getting on the island. Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla calls it a “humanitarian […]
A Sneakertown book review. Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike and the richest person in Oregon, has just released his memoir, Shoe Dog (Scribner, 400 pages, $29)—which is coincidentally already the title of a kids’ book about a dog who likes shoes. The book is a first-person chronicle of Knight’s founding of Nike predecessor Blue Ribbon […]