John McCarron

"I don't consider this to be an issue which gives me great concern." So said Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when asked last week by a congressional...

If anyone knows the importance of making friends in high places, it's Thomas Roy Donovan. He learned it as a kid growing up in Bridgeport, a South Side neighborhood where...

Tight-money conservatives are calling on the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates. The soon-to-be-chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when he's not talking about invading Cuba, warns President...

Stick a fork in Bill Clinton. He's almost done. I predicted this would happen 18 months ago, long before the political pollsters began to smell disaster in the wind. Senate...

For a while last Tuesday, I was worried about the future of Chicago and of poor folks in cities across America. But I got over it. Just after the polls...

Japan's top economic representative to the United States was in Chicago last week and stopped by the newspaper for a chat. Minister Kiyohiko Nanao was most impressive. Not that he...

Are women systematically discriminated against by employers in the important matter of wages and benefits? And are male executives whose wives choose not to work rewarded with better pay and...

When this column has something good to say about government-a tax-subsidized job-training program, say, or the Americans with Disabilities Act-there soon arrives a handful of letters telling me I'm hopelessly...

So, you want to know why Democratic candidate Dawn Clark Netsch is going to get clobbered Nov. 8 by Gov. Jim Edgar? Or why the GOP is about to enlarge...

First, the good news: The U.S. economy, after making difficult adjustments, has roared back to become the most competitive in the world. The bad news? One of the "difficult adjustments"...