William Neikirk

I find it strange that Americans are running around blaming the oil companies because they chose to boost prices suddenly in the wake of the Middle East crisis. Many of...

Buffeted for days by Iraq`s threat to Middle East oil supplies, financial markets may see a ray of hope Wednesday in reports that the United States and other countries will...

Up to this point, George Bush has been an adequate, if not mediocre, president. His greatest skill has been his nimbleness in striving for compromise and avoiding confrontation on the...

This is a country of generalists, not specialists. We look down on people who are too narrow in their focus, too single-minded in their pursuits. We believe that if we...

The American investor`s stampede to safety is making money-raising costlier for companies not ranked among the nation`s elite-a situation that could turn them into a cash-starved corporate underclass, according to...

When Caterpillar Inc. was sued by investors the other day over its failure to disclose the full extent of company losses in Brazil, it called attention to a hot new...

I hear quite often from the U.S. scientific community that we should never strive to be like the Japanese in the way we educate young people. They tell me Japan...

Today I`m putting on my devil`s advocate hat and asking myself whether this crushing conformity about economic policy is all askew. I put myself in the category of one who...

It should not have been surprising that the American public yawned when George Bush made his confession. Although he had said, ''Read my lips, no new taxes,'' during the campaign,...

Donald Trump has become a Third World country, going on hands and knees to his bankers to reschedule his debt. It is said that many of these loans were approved...