Commentary

The Clinton administration, seeking to make positive news at this week's sub- summit meeting in Mosc

CHINA has tried several times in recent years to streamline its money-losing public companies, witho

THE GLOBAL telecommunications web grew tighter Thursday with Deutsche Telekom's announcement that it

SHIPOWNERS and the Clinton administration are playing a game of hot potato with stowaways. Neither s

Question: When is a global trade liberalization deal not a liberalization deal? Answer: When

If any proof is needed that OPEC, the once-feared Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is

SAVE VITAL COMMERCE DEPT. PROGRAMSYour May 24 editorial, "Re-engineering Commerce,"

CHALK ONE UP for democracy in Chile. Chile's military, which coexists uneasily with the nati

THE REBIRTH of U.S. railroading has been one of the great business success stories of the last decad

The political reaction to President Clinton's alternative proposal last week for balancing the feder

The recent intervention by the United States and other central banks in the foreign exchange markets

KEEP THE ALASKA OIL EXPORT BANYour June 9 editorial, "The Alaska Oil Flap" (Page 10A

The U.S. airline industry this month will proudly carry the 10 billionth passenger in commercial avi

The financial community should focus on the power struggle at the Federal Reserve over whether and w

FIRST AUTOS, now aviation. The Clinton administration Monday threatened sanctions against Japanese a

IN BETWEEN FIGHTS over Bosnia and Chechnya, the leaders at the Halifax economic summit actually spen

The wires connecting Baby Boomer brains to reality have never been very securely fastened. More evid

The ill-conceived proposal by Rep. Dick Chrysler (R-Mich.) to eliminate the Commerce Department is b

The West may grumble about its relationship with Russia but it should at least take heart that Russi

THE FIGHT for control of the AFL-CIO may be the best thing to happen to the American labor movement

Fidel Castro's Cuba slowly is opening up, but not like a red rose blooming. Instead, picture a creak

The newest economic data appear to point straight to recession. Payrolls declined by 101,000 workers

Canada's cultural battle with the United States may heat up soon. The Clinton administration

For nearly 50 years, advocates of the multilateral trading system griped about the second-class stat

CORPORATE WELFARE, a phrase now in vogue in Washington, sounds like a concoction of the anti-busines

GIVE BILL CLINTON CREDIT. His plan to balance the budget may be a few weeks late and several billion

Americans viscerally mistrust protectionism because it guarantees higher prices, lower quality and r

You probably noticed already, but now it's official: Nobody got much in the way of a merit raise thi

An Asian trade minister recently confided that his country's auto parts companies face precisely the

CALL IT the incredible shrinking summit. Leaders of the world's seven richest nations gather

LET'S LEAVE THE FISH ALONEI was reading with interest, and enjoying, Michael Czinkota's June

Homily, Bromide, and Platitude are at work again. What we're talking about is a "draft" of the Group

AMTRAK, a perennial ward of the government, moves a step closer today toward a once-unthinkable goal

LABOR ISSUES will dominate Amtrak's efforts at reform, but another concern - liability for accidents

Back during the blip of interest in the value-added tax (VAT) after Bill Clinton first took office,

The great 1995 bull market in bonds suffered its first major setback last week. Prices fell sharply,

I try, boy do I try, but it never seems to work out the way I planned. I'm one of those people that

AIRLINE ALLIANCES are sprouting everywhere. Just last week, Scandinavian Airlines System and Thai Ai

It comes as no surprise that most congressional Republicans want to deliver a hefty tax cut. Through

A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FOR INTERMODAL EXPOI take major exception to Rip Watson's May 1