Commentary

Despite a lack of any credible evidence that inflation is a threat to the U.S. economy now or in the

Amid reports of money laundering and rampant corruption, it is tempting to view Russia as a rat hole

There is a development under way at the Customs Service that should be deeply troubling to anyone in

The tale of the Titanic has fascinated people for 87 years now, ever since the luxury liner hit an i

A concerned New England customer queried my trucking company in New Haven, Conn., one day: Can you t

There are two broad symptoms of an economy experiencing excessive demand growth.One is infla

What happens on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum w

At the beginning of the 19th century the French led a revolution that introduced a new age of politi

Vice President Al Gore was asked last week to join an activist group and a congressman in reneging o

Your editorial, ''He was a merchant mariner'' (Aug. 19, Page 7), and the Aug. 26 letter from Joe M.

We all know managing with an eye to the environment is a socially responsible thing to do. But incre

It is somewhat ironic that the Year 2000 problem has become known as Y2K. This shorthand method of n

In today's world, fax is fast and signatures on faxes are legal. So, if you absolutely, positively h

Over the past few years, as the debate becomes more shrill over globalization and the impact of incr

This is to comment on the Aug. 17 opinion article headlined ''Danger on digital John Hancocks'' (Pag

Weeks after the earthquake, various issues related to Turkey's disaster still dominate the country's

Railroad executives can be excused if they have a sense of deja vu. Twenty years after deregulation,

Less than a year after leading the Social Democrats to a stunning election triumph that ended nearly

There are only two explanations for what the Indonesian government has been doing in the bloody anar

Close to one in four Americans is now an independent worker rather than an employee, and for most th

Even though it is a small and landlocked Alpine country, Switzerland has become the home base for a

The spotlight will be on Chinese shipping issues this month, and the Federal Maritime Commission wil

Ronald Babula, in his lengthy Aug. 17 letter (''Data reject notion of mercantilistic Japan rate poli

I wanted to start off this column with a question about the FastShip venture, but first please allow

Some people are quick to get annoyed when anyone telephones them by mistake. Some get understandably

Over the past year, ports along the East Coast of North America dealt with a new reality as we respo

This has been a difficult summer for the Taipei-Beijing-Washington triangle.The Belgrade emb

Our best public holidays are meant as times of celebration and reflection. We're supposed to enjoy o

The Clinton administration just received a sharp reminder from a new quarter that the nation's curre

For years, companies focused on cost-cutting to improve profitability. To achieve those same results

On Oct. 1, Hapag-Lloyd will undergo the most radical transformation of its business in nearly 30 ye

As collective bargaining and the National Labor Relations Act have diminished in importance in labor

The latest formal efforts to put the stalled peace process in Northern Ireland back in motion are sc

James A. Dorn (''Expand trade relations between US and China,'' Aug. 17, Page 7) trotted out the sam

Earlier this year, President Clinton announced moves to enhance support of the Cuban people and prom

Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, angrily laid much of the blame in a major money-laundering s

The writer of the opinion article headlined ''Buying a car without price information'' (Aug. 31, Pag

It sounded pretty bad at the time. Somebody had made up a phony Bloomberg News Service Web page repo

Monday is Labor Day. While the holiday has come to signify the end of summer and the return to schoo

The Japanese yen has risen more than 12 percent against the dollar in the last three months, and the