William Neikirk

Tell almost anyone in the country that the Bank for International Settlements is very worried, and the first reaction will be the Bank for International What? The Bank for International...

I want a world in which every contest is run by Kraft and every bank is a Texas savings and loan. I want an America in which Ronald Reagan (Sir...

It all started with Chicago, and it will probably end with Chicago. It was 18 years ago that the postwar monetary system came tumbling down, chiefly because of the free-market...

The newest thing in economics is called the Super 301. It doesn`t fly or speed down a railroad track or a highway. It just whines. Super 301 is not a...

Put the `80s down as the decade in which business ethics came to the fore. Takeovers, environmental disasters, bribery, corruption in the savings and loan business, product liability and the...

There they were in Tiananmen Square, a million points of light, longing for freedom and economic security, a psalm of hope and expectation. There they were outside Exxon`s annual meeting...

People in the Midwest get nervous when the dollar starts rising. They remember President Reagan`s first term, when a strong dollar devastated the manufacturing sector and enabled foreign companies to...

People often ask what I think is the No. 1 cause of the U.S. economy`s problems. After much reflection, I have reached a preliminary conclusion: The basic problem is the...

Life, as they say in the board rooms, is nothing more than good marketing. Chicago, one of the world`s great marketing centers, appreciates this more than most cities do. Just...

For the economy, it was the best of weeks and the worst of weeks. On one day, the government said the economy expanded a stunning 5.5 percent in the first...