Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week at a conference in Malaysia, International Monetary Fund head Michel Camdessus outlined ''

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the dour leftist politician, will be sworn in as mayor of Mexico City on Friday

Enormous deposits of ice-like crystals beneath the seabed could provide enough energy to power North

The traditional concept of flag-state control for ship stems from the requirement for and possession

It's time the nation took stock of New Labor.Two years ago, the AFL-CIO threw out the old gu

Assuming for a moment that American negotiators succeed in promoting President Clinton's global warm

With the largest work force and the richest diversity of economic resources in Central America, Guat

KVAERNER DEAL IS A BOONFOR PHILADELPHIA YARDTom Baldwin, in his Inside Talk (Oct. 23, Page 2

After Jiang Zemin returned to Beijing, most Americans turned their attention away from China. Within

ANTITRUST IMMUNITYSEEN AS MISGUIDEDThe prologue to a famous Frank Sinatra song says, ''As I

Faced with stiff opposition, the Federal Trade Com- mission Monday left unchanged the narrower defi

This is supposed to be the Year of the Balanced Budget. It turned out to be the year of the largest-

Among the pine trees of northern Greece, Aristotle is at the heart of a simmering war with a group o

If a single image hovers above the conference on global warming being held this week in Kyoto, Japan

Russia is caught up in the contagion spreading from the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia.

The South African Revenue Service offices in downtown Cape Town emptied one recent morning as the en

Haiti's best hope for peace, prosperity and freedom lay in the development of a vigorous and industr

Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals San Francisco, has a problem: