Do university research programs tend to stimulate employment and raise the average level of income in the local area economy?

The economy will cool off because of a slowing housing market and rising energy prices but will experience a soft adjustment and modest growth in 2007, according to John B. Taylor and Peter Wall, two speakers at the 43rd Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, co-sponsored Dec.

Corporate America shouldn't fear the Democratic takeover of Congress, despite the party's anti-business reputation.

"Subpar," when applied to upcoming economic growth, is not an epithet businesses like to hear. It doesn't sit very well with consumers either.

As Arizona strives to find and maintain a place in the global economy, it faces many of the same challenges as the nation.

Elizabeth M. Bailey, clinical assistant professor of economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business, has been studying the debate over oil industry consolidation and prices.

The U.S. government debt is massive — and growing out of control. Our debt is a burden on our grandchildren failing to decrease it today is selfish and myopic. Those are statements that most Americans have become accustomed to hearing.

Sixteen years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed, workers with mental illness still face a disheartening choice: keep their health problems a secret at work, or risk being shunned, passed over, paid up to one-third less, or even fired, according to a new study conducted by the

The amenities of desert living have long brought a strong inflow of new residents to Arizona, which is good for the real estate market but bad for institutional memory: Those who have not lived very long in the Grand Canyon State might not know about the great real estate downturn of the late 198

Recent estimates of the United States' federal budget deficit just keep getting better.