Barry D. Wood

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

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