Commentary

The state of the economy always becomes an election year issue, but misleading government statistics

The International Monetary Fund would, no doubt, approve of Moscow's determination to hold down bu

Shortly after Halloween, the United States will hold a World Series and a presidential election, but

Kids pick up their first cigarette for a variety of reasons. Some do it for kicks, some to see how i

LET'S HEAR ITFOR GIMBALLED BUNKSHurray for Tom Baldwin's ideas on ''Making ships user friend

After a year of chest beating about saving America from the ''failed'' welfare system, the politicia

For months now, much of Wall Street has been waiting in vain for the Federal Open Market Committee t

'WHITE HOUSE SMEARHAS OUTRUN THE TRUTH'Thank you for the kind and generous profile in your S

In a shameful example of legislative hostage-taking, labor unions are holding up a $19 billion feder

The Senate will adjourn this week without ratifying one of the most important U.S. trade deals of t

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan bowed to exceptional pressure from the Clinton administratio

The gilded world of big-league philanthropy is witnessing an extraordinary event: the voluntary exti

Before a blinding sun bakes Beysehir lake, Ismail Senol poles his thin, bright-blue fishing boat thr

The U.S. Congress is about to deliver a stinging blow to the World Bank, the world's biggest aid age

They didn't call it the Massachusetts Miracle for nothing.During the early 1980s, the oldest

Guess what?It really was the economy in 1992, when James Carville hung his now-famous sign i

Britain's role within Europe is approaching a critical juncture as the momentum for European monetar

Forty-seven years ago Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the new People's Republic of China, announcing the cou

In little more than 18 months, Latin American nations have proved that good economic news can spread

With the decline of communism, a long list of former nonmarket economies, including Russia, other fo

For all the talk about information technology, how has it affected corporate bottom lines?Th

Like astronaut Shannon Lucid, the nation's important health-care issues have been stuck in outer spa

With the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials upon us, and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavi

Facing a challenge to national unity at home, Canada is gearing up to fight an imagined threat from

What should a U.S. software company do when it finds out that the Chinese government is among the mo

President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich may soon find themselves saying with the Duke of W

With much fanfare, Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations last

Speaking in Cincinnati recently, President Clinton noted that six out of 10 heroin and cocaine users

Grammatical stickler Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan has complained for years about the phrase ''most f

It is understandable that President Boris Yeltsin's doctors have come to praise him, not to bury him

High on the agenda of the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary

Before economic logic got turned upside down, people like me were considered solid citizens.

Being an economic powerhouse, or rather the economic powerhouse of the future, doesn't necessarily m

The world's catch of wild fish increased nearly fivefold between 1950 and 1985, but the fishermen ha

NO PLOT AGAINSTCHAIRMAN ROTHI read with complete disgust your recent article regarding the c

Among the most topical export control issues is the transfer of jurisdiction over encryption exports

Who's afraid of commodity price swings? Apparent- ly the U.S. Senate, which this week extended an

As Germany finally begins to dismantle and reform its corporate welfare system and as Japan prepares

Anew order of international finance is upon us. No longer are billions of dollars flowing from the t

Despite the doomsday reports, the vast scientific enterprise financed by the federal government is c