Trump’s G20: Back to Basics

by Barry D. Wood As a crisis response entity, the Group of 20 was superb. In 2009 at the nadir of the global financial crisis, leaders from lands accounting for 85% of global output agreed to flood their stumbling economies with cash—demonstrating to a benumbed public that competent leadership was in charge, that confidence would be restored—and most importantly–there would not be a worldwide depression. … Continue reading Trump’s G20: Back to Basics

Joe Hatfield Built Walmart into a Powerhouse in China

Visiting Walmart’s Super Center in Shenzhen in 2005 and meeting the company’s Asia chief Joe Hatfield remains a reporting highlight. I arrived a short time before the store’s 7 a.m. opening and found Hatfield waiting for me with two associates.  Rail thin, chain smoking, he wore a shirt and tie but no jacket. The name tag on his shirt pocket said simply, “Joe.” We sat … Continue reading Joe Hatfield Built Walmart into a Powerhouse in China