Facing huge infrastructure needs over the next 25 years, Arizona must find a new way of doing business, according to former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta.

The U.S. real estate market, which was central to the global financial crisis, remains deeply troubled, and a full recovery could be years away, according to industry experts and analysts at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

In the midst of one of the worst financial crises the country has seen in decades, one man is optimistic about America's future. Barry Asmus is senior economist at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research organization.

Providing all Arizonans with the gold standard in telecommunications could cost $24-25.2 billion, but what is the dollar value of state-of-the art infrastructure to rival that of world leaders? That could well be priceless.

Many economists and policy makers are stating that the current financial crisis demonstrates that markets and capitalism are flawed and must be regulated and controlled, if not destroyed.

Politicians and pundits blame sinking workforce participation on discouraged workers exiting the job market, but actually demographics plays a big role.

Fifty-one percent of those polled by the Gallup organization on January 19, 2014 believe that the U.S. economy is getting worse, but four key measures of economic health tell a different story.

James Glassman and Lee Ohanian have very different takes on the current and near-future health of the U.S. economy. Glassman, managing director and senior economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., says that a decent economic recovery is in progress.

Arizona’s economic performance in 2014 is expected to continue to be less than robust, according to economists speaking at the 50th Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, co-sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business Department of Economics and JPMorgan Chase.

Dan Burns, CEO of the performance training company, shared the company's scientific approach that integrates four pillars — mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery — to give athletes everything they need to perform their best at the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon.