Paycheck Protection Program loans provided lifelines to Oregon’s small businesses but triggered messy headaches for banks. A look back at the process proves the struggle paid off in many ways.

Businesses innovate to survive the biggest challenge of a lifetime.

Getting on the good side of your loan officer.

After a volatile year, markets have become more resilient and unemployment rates have plummeted.

In 2008, wheat prices soared to a whopping $16 per bushel and then plummeted to $5.50 by the end of the year.

You know the pendulum has swung when the government is backing loans that banks won’t touch.

"The future's all yours, ya lousy bicycles." Thus spoke the late, great Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film set when horses ruled the road.

“Do you lift weights?” Before I can answer, Sky has handed me something large, metallic, and, I am guessing, heavy.