Commentary

Ever since Julius Caesar's Roman army marched into the Rhine River Valley in 59 B.C., Italians have

Vladimir Dovgan's business strategy is an extension of his black-belt karate prowess.''I don

It is frequently said that we live in an information age, that never before have so much data and an

The continued fallout from Union Pacific's problematic acquisition of Southern Pacific, its systemwi

ANOTHER LOOK ATMARIANAS TEXTILESLet me clarify three aspects of the Clinton administration's

In light of the economic turmoil in Asia right now and the political crisis in the Middle East, Cent

Newly minted trade ambassador Richard Fisher is on an introductory swing through Asia this week, wit

The $18 billion International Monetary Fund request now before Congress is crucially important to th

Recently, House Minority Whip David Bonior, D-Mich. - in a move criticized even by members of his ow

Telmex, the Mexican telephone company, and two of the largest U.S. long distance carriers - AT&T and

With an approval rating of 3 percent in one recent poll, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's domestic

INDONESIA URGES LOWEROPEC QUOTAS, CITES IRAQJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian Mines and Energy

Since 1980, mergers have reduced the number of major railroads from several dozen to fewer than 10.

Amid the financial turmoil in Asia, Latin America's economies managed their best performance in thre

Hours and hours of labor and thought went into your new Web site. The graphics are great, proprietar

A crackdown by Mexican immigration authorities on foreign observers in the southern state of Chiapas

The U.S. administration is carrying out its annual exercise of decertifying countries that don't pla

A REWRITEOF ALASKA'S HISTORYOver the years, members of the Alaskan congressional delegation

The recent ruling by a panel of the World Trade Organization against the United States in a case tha

Congress will be presented soon with an ocean shipping deregulation plan that will expose this indus

There is continuing debate on whether the U.S. government should allow the use of taxpayer money to

NEW YORK REGULATORS OKNIAGARA MOHAWK REVAMPALBANY, N.Y. - State regulators approved Niagara

Yes, Virginia, there is still a Latin America.Asia has been more than dominating the economi

Recently released reports about health care in New York state should be a cause of concern for Ameri

JONES ACT REFORMERS WANTTO SACRIFICE AMERICAN JOBSRob Quartel and the Jones Act Reform Coali

Taiwan and China appear to have put the worst of their squabbling and military threats behind them -

The new U.S.-Japan aviation agreement is not an open-skies agreement. It is nonetheless a good deal

U.S. high school seniors ranked near the bottom in a recent international exam in math and science,

Insurance fraud is a $20 billion-a-year business in the United States and growing so rapidly that in

Despite seven years of economic expansion, combined with historically low unemployment, American cou

''Independence of judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individual

The International Monetary Fund is the world economy's equivalent of our Federal Reserve: a lender o

BACKGROUND CHECKSNEED BACKGROUND DATAGreg Johnson's recent column on criminal records of pro

Employment ministers of the Group of Seven economic powers think they have found the Holy Grail of l

With the financial crisis in East Asia winding down, the Congress is considering whether to appro

In testimony before the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee recently, Federal Reserve Chairman

Financial security and direct investment are the life blood of international trade. Thus, the announ

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has reportedly returned from Baghdad with a credible sol

With price inflation virtually invisible in the U.S. economy, financial writers have been working ov

A Portuguese naval officer in Macau, Fernando Brito, took part in a peculiar ritual. Once a week he