Barry D. Wood

It was a master stroke by Democratic party leaders to dump octogenarian Joe Biden, replacing him with Kamala Harris as candidate for president.  It was

During five decades of travelling and writing, I’ve met several people who through their humanity and ability to stay focused conveyed a rare, clear sense

We have emerged from an extraordinary month.  Events in America swept past with the speed and force of a summer tornado.  From the Trump Biden

At the peak of its power, Anglo American utterly dominated South Africa’s economy. It alone accounted for 25% of South African GDP and 60% of

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