Commentary

The residents of Broadslab, N.C., know Christmas is coming when they see ALE agents on the road.

The Internet industry is trying to stay one step ahead of efforts by Congress to regulate cyberspace

United Parcel Service has proposed including all-cargo air services under the World Trade Organizati

Like all global talkfests, the climate conference in Japan has deteriorated into a jumble of contrad

Foreign press reports of the investment climate in Vietnam are overwhelmingly negative. New investor

Friday's preliminary ruling against the United States over Japanese barriers to imports of Kodak pho

If you are in a permanent job, you should count yourself lucky. And if you are one of the lucky ones

With Asian financial crises capturing worldwide attention, U.S. negotiators are under increasing pre

The World Trade Organization preliminary ruling last week that Japan did not conspire to block Eastm

A bribe is usually bigger than a tip. Ask any maitre d'. Or, to use a more reverent metaphor, people

Ports and the railroads that serve them have developed something of a love-hate relationship over th

Delegations from all over the world wrap up their meeting in Kyoto today aimed at hammering out a ne

In an earlier day, one criticism of the Federal Reserve was that it took too long to identify emergi

Former Russian Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov, the soon-to-be tax czar, has called for a crackdown

As was evidenced by the late October stock market sell-off, there may be a high price to be paid for

In late October the General Accounting Office published a little noticed report on the federal gover

Imagine lederhosen-clad peasants dancing to oompah music. Busty waitresses serving giant steins of O

Add to the woes of Japan's post-bubble economy and its heightened exposure to Asian currency turmoil

''We have a phrase for the people we employ at Microsoft Russia,'' says anti-piracy marketing manage

When architects designed the U.S. Capitol more than 130 years ago, they carved tobacco leaves beneat

Vice President Al Gore's decision to go to the global warming conference in Japan this week, announc

The interdependence of the world's economy becomes quite apparent when financial troubles in one cou

The holiday season is in full swing as Cindy Crawford floats across television screens reminding men

Asian International Monetary Fund restructuring plans designed to address the currency crisis are st

A recurrent argument behind the open markets and free-trade debate holds that U.S. manufacturing is

As the Clinton administra- tion weighs narrowing the scope of ''fast-track'' trade authority next ye

New car sales in Japan fell more than 20 percent in November, raising European anxiety levels. Europ

Import growth in Japan is weak and getting weaker. The same is true in the rest of Asia, where slugg

THE CONSPIRACY BEHINDTHE FALLING GOLD PRICESYou're doing your readers a disservice by printi

Had Adolph Hitler won his war against Russia, he had an economic reform plan that should ring a bell

Almost unnoticed in the turbulence of the South Korea economic crisis has been the splintering and d

History's most famous Bosnian, Gavro Princip - whose assassination of an Austrian leader sparked Wor

So how bad, really, is Asia's economic crisis? South Korea, the world's 11th-largest economy, this w

English cattle farmers haven't had it easy. The outbreak of mad cow disease that has killed 22 peopl

SENATE SHOULDSTOP IMPEDINGIt's understandable that Tim Rhein, chief executive of APL Ltd., h

It is almost more than the news media can bear, certainly more than we can properly cover.Th

For decades, the price of milk in the United States has been set under a convoluted system of federa

Business and other interest groups are waging a multimillion dollar media campaign to convince the U

In July 1993, the European Union instituted its banana import regime, putting in place a license sys

Telecommunications deregulation - made law under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - is bogged down