William Neikirk

It seems I`ve been paying the Social Security tax forever. When the new year arrived, I shuddered. The payroll tax, which has been increased several times, went up again. So...

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe badly need advice on how to convert from communism to capitalism in short order. Many economists believe the task will be terribly painful, but...

You are a big company. Your earnings continue to rise every year. By all your objective standards and by those taught in business schools, you seem to be doing well....

America goes into 1990 well aware that capitalism has triumphed over communism, yet fearful about its own future. It should be a joyful time, and in many ways it is,...

When the first man went hunting, he engaged in the human race`s first economic activity, thereby establishing the principle that people dominate economies, not the other way around. In academia...

''Anybody who hates children and dogs can`t be all bad.'' W.C. Fields For a moment there, I knew how W.C. Fields felt. It came over me when someone showed me...

The ability of America to compete in the next century depends not so much on the giant things like capital and currencies, but how the country treats Jane, the entry-level...

America-bashing has become the ''in'' thing to do in Tokyo. Tired of the relentless tongue-lashing from a variety of public and private U.S. leaders, the Japanese are firing back. For...

It was so comforting the other day when I drove into the gasoline station. There were no lines. I paid about a dollar a gallon to fill up and drove...

A power user of today`s computer systems can be everything from a large bank to a Fortune 500 company, a sensitive government agency such as the Defense Department or a...