Commentary

Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

Never has the global playing field been so competitive, nor the stakes for countries and multination

Memo to Teamsters:Fasten your seatbelts.A wild ride is about to begin.With the elect

Earlier this year, the line-item veto, Republicans' hard-won attempt to restrain a profligate federa

The American Insurance Association has this to say to candidates who complain that they're losing co

When the economic activities of a society change, so do its employment and jobs. For example,at the

There's gold in Africa's hills but this has nothing to do with minerals. More than 400 countries and

Congress has only itself to blame for the recent litany of Internal Revenue Service abuses.F

A lot of attention these days is devoted to the importance of worldwide brands as companies merge, s

A yogurt container offers ironic testimony to the thesis of Lionel Jensen's new book, ''Manufacturin

The European Union glimpsed a new golden age when it approved the launch of an 11-nation monetary un

With public decorum in mind, the savants of the house of science generally employ silencers and padd

If Russia's new Prime Minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, is the unelectable stand-in most politicians in Mo

Are America's 77 million baby boomers actually prepared to retire? Experts say yes, cautiously, but

An oil-industry watchdog group has raised questions about the safety of a new $100 million system to

With the rise of the Margaret Thatcher-Ronald Reagan era of the 1980s, a trans-Atlantic conservative

Indonesian officials have fought to maintain subsidies and put off reforms during their Internationa

Plastic may be the gold standard for a new millennium, but people are very reluctant to give up note

NUMBERS GROWINGFOR CUSTOMS' AES I am writing in response to the March 19 article on Page 1A,

Hong Kong is protesting the U.S. Trade Representative's decision to keep it on the U.S. intellectual

After recording the strongest growth in the Group of 7 nations in 1996, Japan began tightening fisca

In a season of clashes with Congress, the Clinton administration faces a major showdown this month w

Following last month's Summit of the Americas, many believe the momentum has gone out of U.S. Latin

The Dutch will vote for a new government tomorrow, but apart from the candidates nobody is too worri

In remission after decades of irrational and costly prosecutions, antitrust enforcement is enjoying

You almost feel sorry for the $200 billion International Monetary Fund, which times seems answerable

I was standing in front of a bookstore shelf filled with foreign-language translation guides recentl

Once Northern Ireland was the economic jewel of the Emerald Isle. The six counties had the coal and

The gangplank has been rolled down, but Clinton administration officials apparently aren't ready to

Trade financing is the lifeblood of international trade. The Asian crisis is a case in point. Many A

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's decision last week to address Beijing's National Judges Coll

Last week's Senate vote to admit Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into the North Atlantic Trea

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Some business analysts have turned somewhat pessimistic about the U.S. economy recently, on the grou

TOUGHER US LINENEEDED ON PARAGUAYYour article on the informal economy in Paraguay (''Toward

The container shipping industry celebrated this week as carriers successfully raised rates in the tr

When President Clinton said he would use budget surpluses to ''fix'' Social Security, the ruse was o

The barmaid in the Zlata Ribica bar in Ljubljana's old town was surprised to be asked about Slovenia

When Japan's Ministry of Finance, command center for the world's second-biggest economy, agreed to b