While Wall Street watches global markets as an indicator of economic stress, businesses on the main streets of small, local communities watch grocery bills and gas pump prices. They are the precursors of financial change.
To uncover the towns that hold this predictive power, MarketBeat, a financial media company, surveyed 3,021 business leaders on which Oregon cities they believe will experience an economic shift first.
And the results were conclusive – it is the small towns where change reveals itself quietly, in shuttered shopfronts and stalled housing projects.
The Oregon ‘Signal’ Cities are Albany, Grants Pass, and Hermiston
The Oregon ‘signal’ cities that are finely tuned into local shifts in consumer behavior, job vacancies, and supply chains are Albany, Grants Pass, and Hermiston…