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Few companies operate independently in the Electronic Age, which means that the security vulnerability of every business partner — outsourcer, client, whatever — whose computer system has access to yours is a potential portal to your most sensitive data.

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.

Year in and year out, cars manufactured by Toyota Motor Corp. are praised by automobile critics and lauded by loyal customers. The cars sell extraordinarily well and, come year's end, can almost always be found at the top of the rankings in reliability, quality and customer satisfaction.

Last year, some 28 percent of corporate managers surveyed told Evans Data, a market research firm, that their primary driver for outsourcing was cost cutting. You'd think saving money would catch the eye of Wall Street but, in fact, it doesn't.

Roger Myerson, a Nobel Laureate in Economics from the University of Chicago, told an audience of Chinese business executives and government officials recently that their country might do better if it liquidated some of its American investments.

For the first time in three years, the ASU-RSI (Repeat Sales Index) is showing an increase in residential prices: preliminary data for March show that year-over-year, prices for homes in the lower-price and foreclosure segments in Phoenix turned positive.

It is a widely accepted assumption in the healthcare and information technology industries that electronic medical records in hospitals help reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care.

The drop in taxable retail spending over the past two years in Arizona has been dramatic -- even for a historic slump. Dennis Hoffman, director of the Seidman Research Institute at the W. P.

Economic experts take a look at what's ahead for the nation and the state of Arizona at the annual Economic Outlook Luncheon sponsored by the Economic Club of Phoenix. This year John Arnold, Director of the Governor's Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting, Dennis Hoffman, Director of the L.

Employment figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the year through August show that every Western state lost jobs compared to the same eight-month period last year. Nationally, nonfarm employment through August was down by -3.7 percent.