Commentary

Some 85 percent of Americans claim that they are, at the very least, satisfied with the cars they dr

Low-fare airlines have been a blessing for travelers and a curse for the large carriers that compete

Despite years of disinflation here and around the globe, inflation worrywarts are urging the Federal

Imagine that you own a sports equipment store.Your state sues you, arguing that you sell a d

Last week's meeting of the trade minister from the countries of the Western Hemisphere in Belo Horiz

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain insists he's not trying to grab trade jurisdiction fr

The future competitiveness of U.S. agriculture may well be decided in a matter of days.At st

For over a decade, business leaders have been working to improve public education. We have convened

The North Korean famine continues to worsen, and the time for organized action is now.The Ko

How would you feel if your company used your 401(k) contributions to directly pay the retirement ben

President Clinton, who has exhorted Americans to ''compete and not retreat'' on free trade, seems he

Next week, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will announce how much U.S. farmland will be taken out

This is payback time for the Bulgarian police.On the roads leading from central Sofia to the

During the 2 1/2 years since the Miami Summit of the Americas, the hemispheric trade liberalization

Oil tankers and their operation can be dangerous. But they are also critical in the distribution of

Freeing trade sector by sector provides a practical alternative to regional and multilateral free-tr

Did you know that before Fred Thompson was a senator investigating the Chinese connection to America

UAW'S CLAIM OF JOB LOSSDUE TO NAFTA CONTRADICTEDUnited Automobile Workers' Stephen Yokich cl

The Western Hemisphere's trade ministers could not have picked a more propitiously named spot to sta

With nearly 13 percent of French workers jobless and three-quarters of French voters disapproving of

Here we go again with the sequel to ''Son of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.'' This time, the Clinton admin

French President Jacques Chirac is arriving in Beijing today to mend diplomatic fences over long-for

If government is neither the problem nor the solution, as President Clinton has suggested, then what

The ancient Chinese curse, ''May you live in interesting times,'' can certainly be applied to the cu

It's noon in Nanjing and the downtown McDonald's is packed with people - students, shop girls, execu

The effort to bring Spain into accord with the requirements of the Maastricht agreement for a common

Whatever the merits of the bipartisan accord on the U.S. budget - and there is less to the pact than

Amtrak is on the verge of insolvency.In spite of its monopoly on rail passenger service in t

Investors beware. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, seems determined to end wha

When Garry Kasparov walked away from his last chess match against the IBM computer in high dudgeon

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange has announced it will quote stocks in increments of one-sixteenth of

In a book published more than 20 years ago, ''Small World Long Gone: A Family Record of an Era,'' Av

There has been much hand-wringing over whether environmental initiatives by corporations, either vol

The countdown to a pilot strike at American Airlines two months ago, delayed by government intervent

In 1994, President Clinton and other regional leaders boldly declared plans for a Free Trade Agreeme

When Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, Germany's luckless Social Democrats hailed the

American farmers are wailing about rising imports of Canadian cattle, hogs, beef and pork. They beli

In the course of his visit to Mexico, President Clinton was at pains to reassure Mexicans that the U

The World Trade Organization's decision condemning the European Union's ban on the import of hormone

With much fanfare, the Federal Communications Commission last week announced a series of what it c