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Economists like to talk about the shape of the economic recovery. Ideally, it would have been V-shaped: a rapid, dramatic upswing following the recession. Several months into the recovery, which technically began in June 2009, economists were predicting a still-not-shabby U-shape.

Arizona's economic recovery will continue to move at a glacial speed in 2011 — but at least it's moving. The coming new year will see an increase in job creation, a rise in population and even a modest increase in single-family home permits.

After the turkey trimmings are stowed in the fridge, some 138 million shoppers are expected to hit the mall on Friday — up 4 million from last year.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the measure of the nation's output of goods and services, grew by 2.5 percent in the third quarter of the year, according to recently revised figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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.