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KEEP THE WINE FLOWING

Edward Neilan | May 13, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Among the more ridiculous suggestions for solving Japan's and Asia's financial crises is the call fo

SCALING THE ECONOMIC SUMMIT: THE G-7 MEETS \ KEEP CAPITAL FLOWING FREELY

George Orwel | May 13, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
As leaders of the world's seven largest industrial democracies - and Russia - meet in Birmingham, En

HIGH-SEAS PIRACY

Holger Jensen | May 13, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
When the Malaysian-flagged tanker Petro Ranger disappeared in the South China Sea recently, maritime

SCALING THE ECONOMIC SUMMIT: THE G-7 MEETS \ GRAPPLING WITH GLOBALIZATION

John W. Sewell & Michael H.C. Mcdowell | May 13, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The Group of 7 leaders meeting this week in Birmingham, England, will discuss the problems of global

GIVE JAPAN A BREAK

JOC Staff | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
With Asia's financial and economic crisis heating up again, now is not the time to put more pressur
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NORTHERN IRELAND'S BID FOR PEACE

William D. Smith | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The ''Good Friday Agreement'' on Northern Ireland is the most encompassing and promising peace initi

LETTERS

JOC Staff | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
CUSTOMS MISLED EXPORTERSON HARBOR TAX REFUNDSShame on Customs!In a November 1994 Fed

A FOOL BY ANY OTHER NAME

John Helmer | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Is Boris Berezovsky, Russia's billionaire financier, a schlemiel or a schlemazel? And as political a

THAI TROUBLES

JOC Staff | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
It's becoming clearer by the day that Asia's economic crisis is not over. Indonesia has been in the

MOYNIHAN'S MIRAGE

Carrie Lips | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Addressing students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

BUNGLED POWER PLAN

Glenn English | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Forget about markets. Focus on people. Markets exist to serve people, not the other way around.<

FROM HERE TO FREE TRADE

Ernest H. Preeg | May 12, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The upcoming U.S.-European Union summit in London (May 18) and the 50-year General Agreement on Tari

GUS OWEN

JOC Staff | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Secrecy breeds suspicion, and suspicion is what now surrounds Gus Owen, one of two members of the Su

CANDY BOMBER LEGACY

Robert Koenig | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
A half century ago, when Soviet forces cut off all land routes to West Berlin, U.S. ''candy bombers'

MOVE ON MAI

Helmut O. Maucher | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is too important to be allowed to lapse now that ministers

CENTRAL ASIA IS CENTRALLY IMPORTANT

Norman Levine | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Central Asia is a part of the world little known to most Americans. But the tiny republic of Armenia

CHINESE ACCOUNTING DOESN'T ADD UP

Richard Phalon | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Hopeful sales reps of America's ''Big Six'' accounting firms are barnstorming China on what could we

LETTERS

JOC Staff | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTNEED CLOSER LINKU.S. Trade Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's comments on

AUTO PEACE?

JOC Staff | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Every self-respecting country should protect and defend its auto industry at all costs, right? That

QUINTESSENTIAL DISTRIBUTION

Simon Caulkin | May 11, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
This year, $20 billion of business will be done on the Internet. That's about the size of the econom

ON BUDGETS, EINSTEIN AND SAFE LANDINGS

Clifford M. Will | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
This year's U.S. congressional debates over funding of scientific research seem to have more to do w

DOWN ON THE FARM

JOC Staff | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
President Clinton's unfortunate tendency to let base politics overwhelm his higher aspirations to li

LETTERS

JOC Staff | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
TEXTILE PACTFALLS SHORTI am compelled to respond to the letter sent to you by Troy Cribb, th

US TRADE POLICY SYMBOL

JOC Staff | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The era of big government may be over but apparently not the era of big government buildings.

RUSSIA'S MESS MASKS PROGRESS

Padma Desai | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In its third ballot, Russia's lower house of Parliament, the Duma, late last month confirmed Boris Y

DON'T KILL BIOTECH'S PROMISE

Henry I. Miller | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
A ''supplemental'' spending bill for almost a billion dollars in back dues to the United Nations was

MINING SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE

Bernard Simon | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
South Africa's gold mines have been on a downhill slide for more than a decade. The price of their p

WHAT I REALLY MEANT WAS . . .

Washington Bureau | May 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater issued a strong statement recently saying the administration

TWO VIEWS ON SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRIAL POLICY \ OPEN THE BORDERS AND END SUPPORT . . .

Brink Lindsey | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Should taxpayer money be used to develop technologies that will be licensed to foreign firms? That q

FED QUIET BUT VIGILANT

Scott E. Pardee | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The Federal Reserve is back on center stage. It never completely left the stage, but the spotlight h

TWO VIEWS ON SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRIAL POLICY \ . . . NO, DON'T RISK US JOBS, TECHNOLOGY

Alan Tonelson | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

DON'T BLAME OUR JURIES

Julia Vitullo-Martin | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Every time a U.S. jury trial ends in a controversial verdict, commentators propose that juries be ab

THE OLD PARADIGM

JOC Staff | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Does it get any better than this? The U.S. economy was supposed to have long since slowed down, a vi

ROTTEN START FOR EURO

Holger Jensen | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Steps taken last weekend by 11 European Union nations toward eventually giving up their own currency

TIANANMEN, 9 YEARS ON

Rod Mickleburgh | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Nine years after its students rocked China's Communist leaders with their pro-democracy protests at

THE BIG ONE

JOC Staff | May 7, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

IRS REFORM MUST BE A PRIORITY

Dan Thomasson | May 6, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Congress has only itself to blame for the recent litany of Internal Revenue Service abuses.F

TEAMSTER ELECTION HYPERBOLE

Philip Dine | May 6, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Memo to Teamsters:Fasten your seatbelts.A wild ride is about to begin.With the elect

BUSINESS GROUPS FLEX POLITICAL MUSCLE

Jackie Koszczuk | May 6, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
The American Insurance Association has this to say to candidates who complain that they're losing co

SPENDING POWER, LINE-BY-LINE

Gary M. Galles | May 6, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
Earlier this year, the line-item veto, Republicans' hard-won attempt to restrain a profligate federa
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