Commentary

The Clinton administration's bill to establish a new grant of ''fast track'' trade authority constra

The Internal Revenue Service follows certain patterns in selecting returns to audit.The best

From a distance, it looks like a straightforward debate over spending priorities: Should the governm

Career bureaucrats in Japan wield more power than elected politicians today, in contrast to the Unit

On Tuesday, President Clinton formally kicked off his administration's long-awaited campaign for fas

Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., has blinked and taxpayers are the beneficiary.Mr. Shuster agreed Tu

FOSTERING OPENTRADING SYSTEMSSusan Aaronson is right to lay out a commonsense case why Congr

The European Union is about to authorize another round of shipbuilding subsidies and, thanks to the

A few weeks ago Commerce Secretary William Daley raised a few eyebrows, if not hackles.The U

If you use electronic mail, you've probably received it.It comes unannounced and usually unw

Call it what you want. A war between an upstart politician on the make vs. an entrenched Senate cran

CONFUSION REIGNSABOUT CUBA BUSINESS I am writing to offer a clarification regarding statemen

Remember July's historic balanced-budget agreement? Bud Shuster apparently cannot. The Pennsylvania

In recent weeks, two views have emerged on the current state of the economy and whether it has chang

In the short run, the fallout from rapidly changing technology will be an environment where plants a

Many investors missed warning signs that preceded the wave of currency devaluations seen this summer

Republicans have tried for years to overhaul the tax code. Yet when given their first opportunity in

At a time the U.S. Treasury is redesigning America's currency to foil the fine art of high-tech coun

A little over 20 years ago (Sept. 7, 1977), the Panama Canal Treaties were signed in Washington, tra

The director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, said recently that larg

The European Union's 15 member countries are wrangling over future budgets, a sure sign that interna

Three times since March 1996 President Clinton has denied Americans the right to sue foreign compani

China's long history of central leadership struggling to control a far-flung empire has often left s

First, this basic fact about unilateral trade sanctions: Overwhelmingly, they do not work. Also they

October brings the Nobel prizes, and with these most celebrated awards come real but rarely asked qu

Republicans are now debating what to do with the budget surplus that they and others see in the fisc

Absurd jury verdicts in product liability cases once were rare enough to be considered an aberration

As the White House searches for votes in Congress to secure ''fast track'' trade negotiating authori

FEINSTEIN'S CUSTOMSCHOICE DISPUTEDThe Pacific Coast Council's endorsement of California Demo

''Our best price is guaranteed. We will not be undersold! For a limited time, get 20 percent off the

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has positioned himself as a champion of political and econ

Let's assume for the moment that Madeleine Albright somehow gets the Israelis and Palestinians talki

Japan's collapse in the early 1990s came as a major surprise. A country that had lectured the United

The collapse of Baring Brothers bank involved a British rogue trader in Japanese securities in Singa

OCEAN SHIPPING REFORMBRINGS BENEFITS TO ALLMartin Lewin makes a ''lawyerly'' case for why th

Most treasuries around the world sell their securities using auctions in which each winning bidder p

Last month, Moscow impressed Russia's trading partners by extending a generous trade liberalization

The federal government is happily enjoying the political pleasure of cutting taxes. But on the horiz

High employment should not lead us to ignore the growing threat of structural unemployment.C

In school, September meant writing themes on ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation.'' The congressional e