Barry D. Wood

In the summer of 1967 two friends and I visited the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. We were graduate students in a US-funded programme on

At the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Warren Buffett addressed the question of trading for the short term. He asked his on-line audience how many

TechCrunch, a leading technology website, says “Apple’s Vision Pro will live or die on the backs of developers.”  That’s probably true. The most startling advance

CHARLESTON, SC: Back in September I wrote on these pages that America’s presumed presidential candidates were too old and the country desperately needed fresh blood.

On the surface Phoenix is a huge success story. The economy is booming, population is up 40% in two decades, half a million new jobs

Back in 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall came down, economist John Williamson outlined what he thought was an agreed-upon formula for economic

In 1982 the US auto industry was fighting for its life. Mired in the deepest recession since the 1930s, 250 000 auto workers were out

On the day before the 1980 presidential election, I telephoned friends urging them not to vote for Ronald Reagan.  The reason:  the 69-year-old candidate was

Give credit to the South Africans for organizing a smooth, efficient three-day meeting overcoming logistical challenges to accommodate dozens of delegations. The format was brilliant—a

In 2001 Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC for four fast-growing economies that he predicted would attract big flows of foreign investment