Commentary

Rocky days are ahead for Hong Kong.''Red chips,'' or mainland Chinese companies with shares

The 95th Congress returns today from its long, 10-week break to an agenda crammed with unfinished bu

Speaking in London last week, World Trade Organization Director General Renato Ruggiero urged China'

Is the U.S. economy firmly on track for a new period of high growth and low inflation or is the econ

The baby boom has an echo, and it's even louder than the original. The ''Net Generation'' has arrive

Despite his conservative political philosophy, President Reagan may have taken a much tougher line t

The U.S.-European Union spat over preferential banana imports to Europe has gone beyond a mere flagr

Pork prices are going down, which means, of course, it's time for the government to intervene in the

The nonprofit sector is the fastest growing sector in the world, but poor management and communicati

The Clinton administration, to its credit, has moved positively to address the Korean financial cris

Mexico's new finance team needs a plan to help mobilize domestic savings.Mexico, home of th

A survey of leading U.S. corporations released last week showed economic spying inflicted as much as

Who would have thought David Brinkley needed a good public relations adviser? Mr. Brinkley, America'

Usually, you heard him before you saw him, a howl of laughter and profanity echoing through the hall

With Congress on its longest recess in a third of a century, there hasn't been much political theate

The International Monetary Fund's bid to help resolve Asia's many crises has encountered a swarm of

In the realm of mass hallucination, there's a widely held belief that scientific research in America

Like most presidents toward the end of their term, Mr. Clinton has been searching for a statesmanesq

In Seoul, foreigners fly in to buy, or buy into, whole firms that a few months ago they could only h

PORTS' ASSESSMENT CUTS ARENO INDUCEMENT FOR SHIPPERSAs a shippers' representative, I read wi

The move by European Union governments to lift their ban on tallow - a substance made from animal ca

The world is watching Cuba this week as Pope John Paul II visits the island. The trip's true signifi

There was some justice in the misplaced criticism leveled at Bob Dole last week over his decision to

Imagine that one day you checked your bank account to discover that you hadn't been paid. Imagine yo

By every basic indication, 1998 will not be nearly as good a year as 1997. The economy is cooling of

Weakening currencies and a desperate need to compensate for reduced demand in their home markets wil

What is happening in Cuba this week is a news story that the thousands of journalists who flocked to

Against all expectations, Italy's left-wing Olive Tree coalition has done more to rein in profligate

Fund managers and other investors have been dumping stock market shares all over the world during th

60 YEARS OF SUBSIDIESFAILED TO SAVE US CARRIERSIn response to Margaret Sorrell's letter (''S

Iraq has once again rebuffed United Nations weapons inspectors attempting to ensure compliance with

Cuba's willingness to let Pope John Paul II hold religious services this week in Havana is a major v

The new year finds Japan in the eighth year of the post-bubble recession and in its fourth ''dipping

Contaminated berries in Central America, ''mad cow disease'' in Britain, cholera in Latin America, a

They may not run mainframe computers with millions of lines of Cobol code that must be repaired at $

OECD SHIPBUILDING DEALWILL ONLY HURT US YARDSThe recent suggestion by Lars Kjaer (''Ending s

The National Football League has sold the TV broadcast rights to its games for the nonsensical sum o

The great debate now raging in Washington over what to do with future federal budget surpluses has a

Companies operate freely across borders and so, at times, do price fixers. The Supreme Court last we

Shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, a machinist at one of East Germany's state-owned Robotron factor