Economist

It is extremely sad to learn that Milton Friedman died ("Milton Friedman: 1912-2006; U. of C. economist's influence still at work," Page 1, Nov. 17). As a graduate student at...

Marion Gold's "In many jobs, it doesn't pay to be a woman" (WomanNews, May 3) propagates a distorted view of the gender pay "gap," which attempts to make women feel...

The May 11 crash of ValuJet flight 592 in the Florida Everglades was a terrible disaster that the political opportunists quickly took advantage of. They claimed that ValuJet compromised safety...

Round the world it went, chasing the sun from one stock market to the next. It was panic, but not of the wild, irrational kind. Even when the markets rebounded,...

It is a remarkable fact that despite fabulous advances in technology in the past 20 years, Americans have not seen corresponding increases in their living standards. Computers, industrial robots, scientific...

When the history of the English language is written, our times may well go down in history as the golden age of misleading catchwords. For example, every time someone suggests...