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Barry D. Wood
Washington writer Barry D. Wood for two decades was chief economics correspondent at Voice of America News, reporting from 25 G7/8, G20 summits. He is the Washington correspondent of RTHK, Hong Kong radio. Wood's earliest reporting included covering key events in South and southern Africa, among them the Portuguese withdrawal from Mozambique and Angola and the Soweto uprising in the mid-1970s. He is the author of the book Exploring New Europe, A Bicycle Journey, based his travels – by bicycle – through 14 countries of the former Soviet bloc after the fall of Russian communism. Read more of his work at econbarry.com. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OIjoanVGg
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Fear not US inflation – the Powell Fed is coming to the rescue
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jan 23, 2022
In October 1979 Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, only two months into the job, stopped in Hamburg en route to the International Monetary Fund meeting
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Power, privacy, addiction: Facebook’s challenges as it becomes Meta
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Dec 12, 2021
In announcing his company’s name change to Meta, founder Mark Zuckerberg observed that Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of
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In the US inflation is the enemy at the gates
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Nov 21, 2021
Warning lights are flashing in the US economy – petrol is up 50% in a year, home prices are surging, the labour market is tight,
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Rising to a Shakespearean challenge: The achievements of FW de Klerk
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Nov 14, 2021
In Shakespeare’s drama about the plot to kill Julius Caesar, the 16th century bard has Brutus warn fellow conspirator Cassius that the time for action
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The work-from-home revolution
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Oct 17, 2021
Work-From-Home (WFH) ‘is the biggest shift in how we work since the invention of the automobile,’ says Mark Cenedella of Ladders, a New York career
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Events in 1971 initiated big shifts in China and America
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Aug 22, 2021
Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China in July 1971, in the words of his biographer Niall Ferguson, “fundamentally altered the global balance of power.” China was
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An evolving American language – inclusive, gender neutral, racialised
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jul 11, 2021
In his 1946 essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell lamented the decay in English usage that he believed was corrupting thinking itself. He
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In over-stimulated US economy, will inflation be transitory or persistent?
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jun 13, 2021
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jay Powell is staking his reputation on the current spike in inflation being transitory. Powell and his colleagues on the Federal
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Arizona: Tech boom in an uneven desert economy
- By Barry D. Wood
- . May 16, 2021
Phoenix, AZ – Money is pouring into Arizona’s semi-conductor industry. Intel, America’s biggest computer chip manufacturer, is spending $20 billion to build two new fabrication
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The dangerous trend threatening free speech
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Apr 25, 2021
Separately this April, at two elite private schools in New York City, a teacher and a parent are paying a price for speaking out against