Commentary

The North Koreans recently fired a ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific, at least according

Although not prone to self-pity, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo has every right to feel like a la

Everybody's got privacy - and unexpected violations of privacy - on their minds these days. After al

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on whether to return fast-track tra

This year, the federal government will generate a budget surplus for the first time in several decad

Watching sports events on television without paying is fun. But someday soon the fun will be over -

The bailout model of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury is an abject failure. Ins

''Walk fast,'' goes an old Russian maxim, ''and you can overtake misfortune. Walk slowly, and it wil

Deregulation of electric power is relatively new. This summer, power traded on the spot market reach

The European Commission made big headlines last week when it levied massive fines on the Trans-Atlan

Like it or not, it's time for farmers in the United States and the rest of the world to seriously co

In 1996, Congress took an important step in reducing government's role in the marketplace and in set

American goods and services must confront fierce worldwide competition in the 1990s, and America' hi

Charles Dickens started his novel, ''A Tale of Two Cities,'' with the famous line, ''It was the best

A major reason for the strong U.S. economy over the last 15 years has been a gradual improvement, th

The country's education, health, civic and art organizations could collect an additional $3 billion

The economic crisis that began in Asia is now turning into a crisis of confidence throughout the wor

Is Europe strong enough to save the world, economically speaking?Only a few years ago, that

Attention Linux terrorists: It is the policy of this newspaper not to negotiate or meet ransom deman

With the American presidency floundering, Russia turning its back on economic reform and Asia's deep

Al Cohen, who owns a beauty-supply shop in Pittsburgh, got an unexpected notice the other day. It wa

Even in his politically weakened state, President Clinton can still muster the energy to do battle o

The semester started as the world's financial crisis escalated. Since the real world is always the b

The first supermarket I tried was close to our home, on Tishinskaya Square, which has a little park

After 30 years of unbalanced federal budgets, taxpayers are looking forward to the well-deserved tax

China may not have everything the West has, but it's about to catch up in one area: expensive gourme

Before Valium, there was Mozart.I say this with no disrespect, but in awe, actually, of the

Typically, economists have attempted to understand the process of growth at the level of the aggrega

The chattering classes have made up their collective mind: President Clinton has lost their confiden

The Shadow Open Market Committee, a group of business and academic economists who meet to assess pub

Lost in all the rhetoric over the nation's trade policy - the starkly painted positions of advocacy

Vast forests of the nation's lovelier trees are endangered by the Asian long-horned beetle, another

During his visit to the Dominican Republic on Aug. 21, Fidel Castro, as he has done in the past, rai

In October of last year, Tokyo - with three Japanese ship lines facing $4 million in sanctions and a

An all-too-familiar trend in federal regulatory practices took center stage recently when the Federa

Aaron Lukas, in his Sept. 9 opinion article (''A rotten deal at Commerce,'' Page 6A) regarding the a

In what can only be the affirmation of long-held suspicion, the College Board has issued a report in

In recent weeks, environmentalists have joined with some Democrats in the House of Representatives t

Capitalism, after all, is about boom and bust.The evidence is all around us of some cyclical

Recent events in Russia raise the question of how the country got itself into this mess. One questio