Anyone who watches television in the United States might logically conclude that this is a nation plagued by allergies, depression and arthritis. Ads for medicines to address such conditions make it seem as though ailment sufferers outnumber the healthy.

Like an object dropped over the side of a high building, housing prices in the Phoenix metro area picked up speed on the way down, reports Karl Guntermann, real estate professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Consumers are worried, and that's a bad sign for the economy. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy; these days people appear reluctant to buy big-ticket items like cars and major appliances.

Like ripples from a pebble pitched into a pond, the federal law passed to combat white-collar crime has resulted in booming demand for the specialists who can comb through financial records and follow a trail of evidence.

The idea behind services blueprinting is fairly simple: Companies put themselves in their customers' shoes to find out what's working, what's not, and what needs to be changed.

W. P. Carey professors Stephen Happel and Marianne Jennings are free-market defenders. For almost two decades they have evangelized the fundamentals of supply and demand, specifically in the secondary market for event tickets.

Two entrepreneurial CEOs shared some of the challenges they have faced and lessons they have learned with attendees at "Entrepreneurship: From IP to IPO and Beyond," a seminar presented by the W. P. Carey MBA Executive Program.

The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-1 today to lower the rate at which banks lend to each other to 3 percent from 3.5 percent. Just eight days ago the Fed lowered that rate by three-quarters of a percent.

Business researchers have long proposed that when employees find their work meaningful and fulfilling, they are more likely to do that work well, and, as a result, help their companies succeed.

A big change may be ahead in the relationship you have with your electric utility. That's because the worrisome carbon footprint is stomping all over the options electric utilities have to meet increasing demand for power.