Moderated by Scott Lewis: David Crowe: Cost of building a house depends on materials costs. Prices are below the path we were on in the 1980s and 1990s. We’re a long ways a way from a bubble. Where did the jobs go? Josh Lehner: Lost 30-40% of construction jobs,number of licensed real estate agents has [...]
Josh Lehner, senior economist with the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, is up next. State of Oregon is in expansion, outlook starting to improve. Weights have been housing and government. Housing last two years picked up, supporting growth. Cutbacks starting to stabilize and K-12 appears to be through laying off children. Starting to see job [...]
Lawrence Yun is chief economist and vp of research for the National Association of Realtors. Recovery appears to be genuine and will last four or five years. Real estate sales is highly entrepreneurial, relationship building is very important and the number of hours worked. Pending sales are at a five-year high. Homebuyer tax credit created [...]
David Crowe: Starts with macroeconomics, shows GCP growth 2000-2013. Continued softness, Washington: raises taxes, pulling back spending. That creates a drag. We have resolved a lot of things that caught deep, recession. 2014 will see return of better growth rates.Recovery has been erratic. Housing recovery didn’t happen, economy was a lot sicker than people thought. [...]
Southern Oregon Economic Summit “Riding the Wave of Recovery”will start shortly. First up today, David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders
As visible as Erickson Air-Crane’s heavy-lift Siskorsky helicopters have been from the cinema to the nation’s capital, not to mention fighting fires around the globe, the company remains an enigma to many. CNBC stocks guru Jim Cramer interviewed CEO and President Udo Rieder during a segment of “Mad Money” aired Friday. There wasn’t much new [...]
Oregon’s Wine Country license plate has been a big hit with Oregonian motorists. More than 6,000 sets of the specialty plates have been purchased for vehicles since they went on sale in May 2012. The plates, authorized by the Oregon Legislature in 2011, are the first specialty license plates to recognize wine production by any [...]
A lengthy report in the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif., reveals Amy’s Kitchen executives are balking at the $34 million water and sewer permit fees the city of Santa Rosa proposes to levy as part of the organic frozen food makers’ expansion plans. It appears the same economic forces that led to Amy’s to [...]
The ASA Valley South College Exposure Softball Tournament received the Mayor’s Award at Monday’s Chamber of Medford/Jackson County Forum. The award goes to an organization which has done an exceptional job of promoting and bringing visitors to Medford. Mike Wells, the state commissioner and chief executive of Oregon ASA Softball, brought the tournament to Medford [...]
Dish Network is making a bid for Sprint, which once operated a call center in Medford. The Federal Communications Commission reports there are 2 percent more radio stations licensed than this time a year ago. Wells Fargo ratchets-up attention to retirement accounts. The American Banker reports prepaid bank cards still possess a lot fee tripwires. [...]
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