RTHK Radio November 29, 2021 Hong Kong Today Barry discusses Christmas shopping and Friday’s big drop in share prices with host Samantha Butler. Listen Continue reading Black Friday Sales Boom on Line but Disappoint in Physical Stores
Journal of Commerce (Sometimes you get things right. This is an op-ed written two months before the Berlin Wall came down. The piece corresponds well with my reflection on the death of F.W. de Klerk.) A MANDATE FOR MR. DE KLERK BARRY D. WOOD | Sep 07, 1989 8:00PM EDT · With the results in from this week’s election in South Africa, 53-year-old F.W. de Klerk is … Continue reading From September 1989
In Shakespeare’s drama about the plot to kill Julius Caesar the 16th century bard has Brutus warn fellow conspirator Cassius that the time for action had arrived. “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” says Brutus, “which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” For F.W. de Klerk the tide … Continue reading Achievements of F W de Klerk
Money Talk with Peter Lewis | RTHK Hong Kong radio | November 3, 2021 Hong Kong-based financial analysts Patrick Bennett and David Roche and Barry in New York City join Peter for a 20-minute discussion on the topics above. Listen Continue reading Fed Policy, Supply Chain Chaos and the Climate Summit
Warning lights are flashing—gasoline is up 40%, home prices are surging, the labor market is tight, and supply disruptions are creating shortages. Inflation has doubled to a 13-year high of 5.3%. Unless the Fed scales back monetary stimulus, the economy will move dangerously close to a treadmill of spiraling inflation. To be clear, since the covid pandemic struck in early 2020 the Fed has done the … Continue reading Washington Must Cut Back on Stimulus
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