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Price declines hit the Phoenix resale market for a second month in a row in September, with the drop accelerating to 4 percent, according to the latest ASU-Repeat Sales Report (ASU-RSI), released this week by the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Thomas K. Linton is the executive vice president and chief procurement officer for LG Electronics, based in Seoul, South Korea. Linton addressed the monthly luncheon meeting of the Economic Club of Phoenix on November 18.

The slumping Phoenix real estate market reached an ironic point in October where it was both "boring" and scary at the same time, according to Associate Professor of Real Estate Jay Butler, author of the W. P. Carey School's monthly resale home market report.

The advance report on third quarter economic growth (released October 29) was not really bad news. After all, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was up by 2.0 percent, not on the decline as it would be in a double-dip recession.

Many business school-based IT programs are balanced heavily toward technology, but not the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at the W. P. Carey School.

Information Systems Lecturer Matthew McCarthy says "there's no business that doesn't have IT coursing through it." That's why in the W. P. Carey School, all incoming students — no matter what major they have chosen — are required to take CIS 105.

Until very recently, Brad Casper was the president and CEO of The Dial Corporation, a part of Henkel AG & Co.

The Economic Club of Phoenix opened its new season October 28, 2010. "The Economic Minute" is a monthly thumbnail update that is a regular feature at Economic Club luncheons. This month, W. P. Carey Dean Robert Mittelstaedt talked about the dynamics of the sector-driven recovery.

With the most accurate economic forecast among Blue Chip survey participants for the years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, Dr. Sherry Cooper of BMO Financial Group is the winner of the 2010 Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy.

As the fourth quarter begins, most economy-watchers have lost any hope that 2010 will be a year of strong growth. Instead, analysts now are expecting that it may be several years before output expands at a consistent pace that is vigorous enough to make a sizeable dent in unemployment rates.