Commentary

The missing ingredient in discussions of ''sustainable economic growth'' is the ability of market ec

Shocking news! Medicare is being ripped off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by the ve

Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater will host a three-day conference with transportation minis

Port executives from around the Western Hemisphere are in New York this week for the annual meeting

Governments and businesses around the world are trying to prepare themselves for possible problems w

Localization - the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other subnational

I'm tired of seeing ''sports heroes'' arrested for drug use or indicted for spouse abuse. I'm disgus

Shippers are taking a massive hit on cargo theft, and there seems to be no solution in sight to a pr

The Clinton administration and China appear set to proceed with negotiations aimed at finally bringi

One of the issues that has cropped up in the aftermath of the Maersk/Sea-Land combination is the que

From biblical times to the latest Washington hearings on corruption in Russia, people have been aski

Remember push?A few years back, push was the hottest thing in electronic commerce. Electroni

In 1961, President Kennedy declared that the United States would put a man on the moon before the en

If not now, when? The U.S. government is expected to post a record $99 billion surplus in the fiscal

The Japanese yen has been rising against the U.S. dollar and the euro - and, for now at least, nothi

The collision between the Norwegian Dream and the Ever Decent in the English Channel on Oct. 23 coul

The business news in Richmond, Va., lately has been dominated by stories about takeovers of local co

New accounting rules are likely to stimulate even more mergers and acquisitions at a time when such

Whenever I hear the name Turtle Beach, I always associate it with top-of-the-line sound technology f

Michael Eskew's opinion piece ''Color today's winning business model green'' (Sept. 9, Page 8). clea

Railroads have a truly weighty issue to work through as an industry - whether small railroads can or

Isaac Asimov's science fiction classic ''Nightfall,'' first published in 1941, is a cautionary lesso

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called on Russian President Boris Yeltsin to keep the figh

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has been forging ahead with a long-needed house cleaning in his co

The new round of trade negotiations scheduled to be launched in Seattle on Nov. 30 should include a

Several recent studies have concluded that as many as 90 percent of mergers and acquisitions are sho

The Asian financial crisis has provided a wake-up call for China. The lesson of that crisis has been

Remember the Global Alliance - that powerhouse of potential combining two Asian carriers, Orient Ove

First it was the dollar that shamed the euro. Now it's the yen that is eclipsing the new European cu

It is a mistake to compare Patrick Buchanan's potential third-party candidacy for the presidency to

Last week's shootings at the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth serve as a reminder that nothing

The six-month leadership vacuum in the European Union was filled last week after the European Parlia

The U.S. dollar has fallen 15 percent against the Japanese yen since early July, hitting a 3 1/2-ye

There was a time when most of the foods I enjoyed were bad for me. My physician warned me to stay aw

As the new Jewish year gets under way, the Middle East peace process appears once more to be back on

The Clinton administration deserves to be commended for its wise, albeit long overdue, decision to e

Bombs aimed at killing innocent civilians are not new in Russia, whether dropped from the air, or de

The idea of getting the main economies on both sides of the Pacific together regularly in an informa

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a chorus of foreign governments, foreign companies, and their law

Had President Lott rather than Lincoln led the Union, the North would have surrendered before the Co