03-15-2013, 11:21 AM
Remember now, the stock market is soaring: http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ss...cart_river
Excerpt: "The folks at Oregon's Office of Economic Analysis have come up with another compelling chart that puts the state's economic picture in stark relief. This chart compares our job losses to previous recessions and shows just how far we have to go to get back to our pre-recession employment peak in 2007.
The only post-World War II downtown that was worse was in the early 1980s when high interest rates tanked the state's timber industry, which was then a much bigger part of Oregon's overall economy."
Excerpt: "The folks at Oregon's Office of Economic Analysis have come up with another compelling chart that puts the state's economic picture in stark relief. This chart compares our job losses to previous recessions and shows just how far we have to go to get back to our pre-recession employment peak in 2007.
The only post-World War II downtown that was worse was in the early 1980s when high interest rates tanked the state's timber industry, which was then a much bigger part of Oregon's overall economy."