Much of the conventional wisdom about what drives the American economy is wrong, according to Edward Prescott, professor of economics at Arizona State University and cowinner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics.

State senators voted Wednesday to make gold and silver legal tender in Arizona -- but not copper, cattle, cotton, citrus or climate.

Arizonans who fear the federal government will make their folding money worthless may soon be able to substitute privately minted gold and silver coins.

Gov. Jan Brewer refused Thursday to make Arizona the second state in the nation to declare privately minted gold and silver coins, bars and ingots to be legal tender in the state.

PARIS - The idea is ambitious: World leaders joined by aides to the new U.S. president-elect would gather before the year's end in New York and attempt to forge a new vision for the global economy.

Guest commentary by Glenn Hamer

President Bush’s State of the Union address tonight could prove to be one of his most memorable. America continues a war in Iraq that has not gone according to plan or expectations.

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday pledged to work with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to forgive the debt of developing African nations, and defended the U.S. stance on global warming that is at odds with many of America's allies.

Federal authorities said Friday that they're closing their abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona without filing charges against him.

I'll admit it. My heart sank when I read recently that unemployment fell to 8.3 percent. Yes, long-term unemployment and climbing poverty rates are devastating too many families. But we can't afford a cyclical uptick just now if it would mean that Barack Obama might be president for four more years.

I'll admit it. My heart sank when I read recently that unemployment fell to 8.3 percent. Yes, long-term unemployment and climbing poverty rates are devastating too many families. But we can't afford a cyclical uptick just now if it would mean that Barack Obama might be president for four more years.

There’s a clever e-mail being passed around that tells the story of a sea captain who complained to the first mate “that the men smelled bad.” The captain concluded that the crew needed to change their underwear more often. Thus, the first mate immediately set about to execute the captain’s orders: “Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with Schultz.”

Hispanic college teachers who don't like what they see as racist e-mails from a colleague can't use the court system to stifle him, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Stronger regulation is the best way to prevent financial speculation from getting out of hand and throwing the U.S. economy in a new crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday.

KYOTO, JAPAN - The dual realities speak for themselves. Asia’s poverty rate has plummeted from about 50 percent to less than 19 percent in the past four decades and the average income has grown nearly sixfold, but nearly 2 billion people still live on less than $2 a day.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Chinese President Hu Jintao wraps up his four-day U.S. tour Friday at Yale University, where he is expected to offer reassurances that China seeks a peaceful rise to economic prosperity, a theme he articulated this week at a Boeing jet plant and the White House.

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - President Bush on Friday worked to smooth the United States' troubled image in Latin America, commending Argentina's efforts to improve its damaged economy.

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - President Bush on Friday worked to smooth the United States' troubled image in Latin America, commending Argentina's efforts to improve its damaged economy.

October 12, 2004

MADRID, Spain - International donors promised more than $33 billion for Iraqi reconstruction in the next four years, officials said at a conference Friday. The figure fell short of the estimated $56 billion needed to rebuild the country.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the challenge to the health care law passed in 2010. The law, President Barack Obama's signature legislative accomplishment and ticket to the history books, requires most individuals to purchase health insurance, known as the individual mandate.

The nation's high court will decide three -- and likely four -- Arizona disputes in its new session.

Voters in Chandler-based Legislative District 20 will be trading at least one veteran lawmaker for a freshman this year as four Republicans battle for two seats in the primary campaign for the Arizona House of Representatives.

SAN FRANCISCO - Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94.