If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.