James Glassman, managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and John Lonski, managing director and chief financial markets economist at Moody's Analytics, agreed that the economy of the nation, like Arizona, is recovering but not yet recovered.

The Arizona economy is predicted to sustain stable, subtle growth over the next year under the Trump administration, according to our economists.

Economist and L. William Seidman Research Institute Director Dennis Hoffman was quoted in The Atlantic about the impact of the shifting demographic profiles of those apprehended for unauthorized immigration attempts on the U.S. – Mexico border.

The 1990s are remembered for robust employment growth, but that decade began with several years of very slow growth — about 2 percent per year, similar to the slow rate of growth in Arizona since 2010.

A recent study asserted that immigrants scooped up all of the nation’s net job growth since 2007.

The annual quiz at the Economic Outlook Luncheon tests your knowledge of the Arizona economy. This is the ninth year that the event has included the quiz, which is based on presentations at the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheons this season. How many questions can you guess correctly?

Comerica Bank Chief Economist Robert Dye says it’s time to take a different perspective on the economy. Short story: “We need to get past the view that the economy is just now recovering. We’re actually in the middle of the expansion.”

Retail sales were up two tenths of a percent in January driven by spending on cars, clothing and online merchandise. It’s not a spectacular increase, and that’s probably because consumers aren’t sure low gas prices will endure. Economist Dennis Hoffman comments.

The Arizona Republic reports on an L. William Seidman Research Institute report concerning the impact of non-profits to the state's economy.

Arizona has finally recovered the 315,000 jobs lost in the Great Recession, but unfortunately the new jobs do not pay as much as the ones that are gone. The Phoenix Business Journal asked regional economist Lee McPheters why.