The fastest growing retail sector today is online, and it is booming.

IBMoffers a good model for reforming Social Security.The U.S. government will have a sounder fiscal future when, like IBM, it stops treating adult American workers like children.

As I write, 1,576 days have passed since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and still there has been no subsequent terrorist assault on American soil.

There are threats in America: imminent investment tax hikes, a looming crisis with Social Security and Medicare, terrorism and protectionism. But overall, 2005 was a damn good year.

Japan's recovery is for real.

Developingcountries should announce in Hong Kong that they're ready to tear down the import walls that deny their own prosperity.

With all the smoke from those thousands of burning cars in the rioting suburbs, the French have now completely blown their targets for carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.

I'd settle for a simple Hippocratic move: extend the dividend and capital gains cuts by April, then force a vote on an estate-tax compromise just before the 2006 elections.