Commentary

FEDERAL SPENDING on roads and bridges is critical to a sound economy, but so is a balanced budget. R

THE REPUBLICAN PLAN to slash foreign aid and assert more congressional control over foreign policy h

Once again, headlines suggest the United States and Japan are on the brink of a trade war. U.S. Trad

The Federal Trade Commission is alleging that New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc. is deceiving consumers

France will bask in the international limelight for the next couple of months as its allies try to f

AFTER MONTHS OF NEGOTIATIONS, the United States and Britain are close to a deal that will modestly i

The current trade flap between Japan and America affects much more than the price of a Lexus.

Shippers have filed hundreds of cases at the Court of International Trade in New York, challenging t

Washington's international trade apparatus needs a bit of perspective . . . about underwear.

A SWIFT NEW CURRENT is propelling the world's shipping industry. After several years of sharing vess

The world's major industrialized nations this week launched two years of negotiations to reduce barr

COURT RULING WON'T AFFECT TRUCKINGAfter having read "Gun Control Case Could Affect Transport

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." So said a long-a

The United States is again in the midst of a great debate about the role of government in national l

REPUBLICANS WILL EAGERLY RECOUNT one horror story after another to support their campaign to cut fed

Congress is embarked on a long-overdue effort to make real cuts in government programs and move towa

"There may be good policy in (trade) retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that the

DOING MORE WITH LESS has become the credo of American business, where cost control is a condition of

Despite consternation about the collapse of the dollar against the deutsche mark and the yen, 1995 s

A WAY OUT OF THE AUTO DISPUTEAutomotive trade talks between the United States and Ja

AS EACH DAY PASSES, the Clinton administration's Japan trade strategy looks more cynical. Last week,

The magnificent sight of Windsor Castle towering above the River Thames and surrounding park lands i

CARLOS MENEM, resoundingly re-elected last week as president of Argentina, knows what he wants to ac

Fifty years ago today, America celebrated National Maritime Day in inland cities such as Kansas City

Latin America and foreign debt are synonymous in the minds of many investors. But Mexico and other c

There's a Chinese trade sleeper in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's bill to reorganize the S

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor wants to slap new tariffs on $5.9 billion worth of Japanese

Argentine President Carlos Menem's triumph in last Sunday's elections is a victory for free market i

AMERICA'S out-of-control legal system has claimed another casualty: Dow Corning, maker of silicone g

While congressional debate began this week on plans to balance the federal budget by 2002, the searc

Just as uncertainty shrouds the future of AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, rumors abound in union ci

PEACE, it seems, pays. Northern Ireland's cease-fire, which has been in place for eight months now,

US SHOULD PRESERVE WORLD BANK FUNDINGYou reported recently that Congress may try to

REINVENTING GOVERNMENT, the Clinton administration's campaign to make Washington work better, has a

It's the "O.J." of international trade. No DNA, but there's WTO and numbers like 301 and 23.

Once again, the Clinton administration has marched to the brink of a trade war with Japan. This has

We are entering the season for high level international economic strategy. Ministers of the Organiza

HAVING FAILED to bully Japan into accepting numerical quotas in automotive trade, the Clinton admini

The murderous explosion in Oklahoma City last month has revived the public clamor for legislation to

THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB of any Congress is to balance the nation's books and spend the public's money