William Neikirk

Mikhail Gorbachev is having a devil of a time dismantling the socialist state. The Soviet people are in an uproar, angry because their economic privileges are being yanked. Ultimately, Gorbachev...

Apocalypse should remain a religious concept. In these anxious days, the financial markets use it as a metaphor for our ultimate economic destination in just reward for years of profligacy....

When the House of Representatives defeated the deficit-reduction bill early Friday, it wasn`t clear who was voting. It did not seem to be the members of the House, but imposters...

The American economy rode to prosperity on four powerful engines of growth-cheap fuel, cheap food, cheap land and cheap money. Together they created a great burst of wealth that helped...

This is the era of miscalculation. Saddam Hussein did it when he sent troops into Kuwait, causing the rest of the world to throw up the modern-day version of a...

What this country needs is $5-a-gallon gasoline. If I were George Bush, I`d put on a $3.50-a-gallon tax right now, use some of the money to lower the deficit and...

Let the raw, ugly truth out. We would rather, as a nation, spill the blood of our own youth to protect the world`s oil supply than put trust in the...

Just how much longer the president of the United States can afford to take a hands-off approach to the economy is now greatly in question. Ronald Reagan did it for...

What`s a dollar worth these days? For nearly half a century, the dollar has been considered the world`s safe-haven currency. It always seemed to strengthen in times of international crisis,...

This is no time to declare the end of Western civilization. Believe it not, cheap gasoline is not a sacred American birthright, nor is it the only dynamo powering the...