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Candidate Barack Obama took grassroots networking into the digital age in his successful quest for the White House. Gerry Keim, associate dean for the W. P. Carey MBA, looks at whether President Obama can now convert his grassroots network to support his policy agenda.

Doing business in China different than doing business anywhere else.

This spring's crop of college graduates are venturing forth into one of the most challenging job markets in decades.

The 13 economists who track the real estate construction industry for the Greater Phoenix Blue Chip Economic Forecast are projecting that the metro area's residential market will bottom out in 2009, however down times will continue on for the multi family and commercial sector.

Malaise in the economy is slowing down the arrival of relief for Phoenix real estate and lengthening what is already a record-breaking run of declining prices, according to an analysis of the Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index (ASU-RSI).

Hope Berman Levin, the regional president for U.S. Bank in Arizona, recently touched on some of the rapid-fire changes that are happening in banking, during a talk at the W. P. Carey School's 26th Annual  Dean's Council of 100 Executive of the Year Luncheon.

Real estate expert and finance Professor Karl Guntermann has been predicting for a long time that the decline in Phoenix area home prices would probably bottom out by the end of 2008.

The American gaming industry enjoyed an unprecedented run of luck during the late 1990s and the first half of this decade.

We shouldn't expect the stimulus plan presented by Congress to the President to bring an early end to dismal data reports on the health of the economy. Conditions will continue to worsen for at least the next two quarters.

The Economic Minute is a new feature of Knowledge@W. P. Carey. These brief recaps by W. P. Carey economists, first presented at Economic Club of Phoenix luncheons, are designed to bring you up to date on current conditions nationally and in the West.