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Today's news included the announcement that First Solar Inc. has signed one of the largest solar photovoltaic power deals ever in the U.S. The contract with Southern California Edison has First Solar developing two solar-power projects with a combined 550 megawatts of capacity.

Warren Buffet said: "When the economic tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked." The financial upheaval of the last two years has revealed a number of inadequately clad investors.

In his classic book on economic history, Charles Kindleberger argued that asset bubbles follow a predictable pattern. A new opportunity or technology sparks investor euphoria. Asset prices quickly rise to an unsustainable level. Then suddenly, people stop buying, and panic ensues.

What does the trough of a real estate slump look like? Phoenix metro area property owners will have time to take a close look at this unpleasant and hazardous landscape as the real estate market slides to the bottom over the next several months — and settles in for a slow, volatile recovery.

Nobody would claim the U.S. economy is healthy right now. After all, we are in the worst contraction since the Great Depression, and poor numbers are being posted for almost every economic indicator.

In September 2008, the financial storms that had battered global markets since spring began to threaten the legendary investment bank Goldman Sachs. The 139-year-old financial titan had seen its stock plummet nearly 50 percent in a matter of weeks.

The U.S. unemployment rate went up again in June, rising to 9.5 percent (seasonally adjusted).

The Kearny Alliance and Arizona State University are co-hosting a series of forums in the U.S. and in China to explore global trade challenges and their impact on the evolving trade infrastructure.

Bernie Madoff. AIG. Allen Stanford. When Marianne Jennings talks to her undergraduate students about business ethics these days, those are the subjects they want to talk about.

A case study on the green redesign of the U.S. Postal Service's expedited shipping products shows the importance of supplier collaboration in meeting sustainability requirements and keeping cost increases at bay.