Commentary

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

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

BELARUS IS NO WORSE THANREST OF EASTERN EUROPEI consider The Journal of Commerce's accusatio

Ever since Asia's financial crisis broke, attention has been focused on short-run cures to stabilize

Five years ago, President Boris Yeltsin used his annual February address to a joint session of Parli

The move toward a European single currency is beginning to resemble a nightmare wedding: the partici

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

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

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

Proponents of fundamental Social Security reform argue that the United States should look abroad for

So the International Monetary Fund, the global welfare agent for distressed despots and itinerant in

Despite the alarms of economic disaster sounded by many U.S. business leaders and conservative think

Brazil appears to have passed China as the chief target of U.S. retaliatory action for maritime poli

The IMF has rejected Indonesian President Suharto's proposed currency board for the rupiah. Although

If your firm is engaged in making or selling hardware or software controlled under the International

NATO's longstanding goal in Europe has been to keep the United States in, keep the Germans divided a

Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., in a classic case of beating a dead horse, has embarked on a 500-mile cr

America's political leaders are feeling rather proud of their deficit-cutting skills at the moment.

American businesses have substantial stakes in the outcome of the debate over Social Security, not l

President Suharto of Indonesia should wake up and smell the java. The world is a dramatically change

One result of the scandal gripping the White House over President Clinton's reputed affair with a fe

Police in Baden-Wurttemberg are scouring supermarket shelves for baby food poisoned by a blackmailer

In its more meddlesome moments, Congress has been accused by local governments of trying to act as t

President Clinton's State of the Union pronouncement to ''save Social Security first'' by reserving

The Ukrainian government was delighted when South Korea's Daewoo agreed to invest $1.3 billion in th

Houmani Farahani, a 22-year-old conscript soldier in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, stands in fro

Will the International Monetary Fund have to bail out New York state? New York is hardly the next As

Even the greatest of Russians has been known to make stupid counting mistakes.In his 1834 pa

Golfer Casey Martin brought the controversial Americans with Disabilities Act to an unusual place: t

A federal district court ruling Tuesday, which held that Texas beef producers cannot use that state'

The projections in the president's new budget indicate that for the first time since 1969, balance i

Say goodbye to another pillar of President Clinton's illusory bridge to the 21st century - the Multi

The economic forces of globalization are also leading to political fragmentation that results in mor

The first time Boris Yeltsin warned that American air strikes on Iraq could lead to World War III, a

International financial markets are at a crossroads.The decline in Asian emerging equity mar

Sea power has long been one of America's strongest assets in maintaining our world leadership. As cu

I have been recently contacted by someone who has been looking into the possibility of exporting som

The United States has led in transforming highly regulated, sleepy industries like airlines and tele