Barry D. Wood

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

A wise South African, Magnus Heystek, has written, “where capital isn’t welcome, it packs up and goes elsewhere.”  Amazon’s quest for a second corporate headquarters

HIROSHIMA: Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the icy bi-lateral relations between the US and China in recent years have evolved into a new and dangerous conflict,

SARASOTA, FL:  Something strange is happening in Florida, the home state of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Last

I As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, I’ll offer these revisionist thoughts about the country’s beginnings. First, it was essentially a civil