The ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite claims an impressive 95 percent market share. Yet since 2000, a free suite of software that includes spreadsheet and word processing programs similar to Excel and Word has evolved.

The tentative contract agreement that assigned a role to the United Auto Workers in managing the healthcare costs of its General Motors members was a turning point in the relationship between business and labor — and a sign of things to come in a global economy.

Last week's job growth report indicated that some 89,000 jobs were added to the economy nationally in August, and another 110,000 in September. That means the average monthly job growth for 2007 will hover around 125,000 per month — down from the 160,000 average in 2006 and 175,000 in 2005.

Politicians and pundits blame sinking workforce participation on discouraged workers exiting the job market, but actually demographics plays a big role.

Fifty-one percent of those polled by the Gallup organization on January 19, 2014 believe that the U.S. economy is getting worse, but four key measures of economic health tell a different story.

James Glassman and Lee Ohanian have very different takes on the current and near-future health of the U.S. economy. Glassman, managing director and senior economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., says that a decent economic recovery is in progress.

Arizona’s economic performance in 2014 is expected to continue to be less than robust, according to economists speaking at the 50th Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, co-sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business Department of Economics and JPMorgan Chase.

Dan Burns, CEO of the performance training company, shared the company's scientific approach that integrates four pillars — mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery — to give athletes everything they need to perform their best at the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon.

Things get better -- but not dramatically so -- in 2014, says 2013 Lawrence R. Klein Award winner Dean Maki.

The general consensus on Arizona’s economic outlook for the second half of 2013 is this: Arizona, like the nation, is likely to continue growing, but slowly. In some areas of the economy -- like jobs -- we’ll have to get used to a new normal.