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Paul Harris/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP PhotoTrump has threatened new, higher tariffs on two of California’s biggest trade partners, China and Mexico. The state’s workers and economy could feel the most impact. -
Chris Lehman/KLCCOregon is expected to add about 265,000 new jobs in the next eight years.
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The economy is taking a major thrashing from the efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19. Donnie Maclurcan has proposed giving it a thrashing for a long… -
California is an economic giant, with an economy a bit larger than that of the United Kingdom. Yes, the UK. But the economic benefits are not evenly… -
It hasn't even been a real word for long: "financialization." But it explains a lot about the workings of our economy for a while now, the way in which… -
More than a quarter of Oregon's millennial generation get monthly cash infusions from family members. More than half take family money at some point in… -
Political figures are fond of making moves they say will help "the economy." And often, out of sight, economists roll their eyes at the politicians. They… -
Capitalism rules the world now. Even countries we once thought of as committed to communism now allow at least some semblance of a free-market economy.… -
Americans love Wal-Mart. Enough to spend most of their retail dollars there, anyway. But Wal-Mart has many detractors, including people who blame the big… -
Any effort to improve your life would probably not begin at the doorstep of an economist. But let's keep an open mind about this. Adam Smith, the father… -
There's a lot of longing for "good old days" in America, the time when many people could graduate from high school and step into a well-paid manufacturing… -
It makes a certain amount of sense for James Rickards to advise people to buy gold. After all, his last book was called The Death of Money, in which he… -
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it often appears. And it's often hard to believe that it happens by accident. Not an accident at all, says… -
Report after report on the economy and incomes shows a widening between rich and poor in the United States. There are always people who insist that SOME…
