Commentary

HEALTH INSURANCE horror stories abound among small employers. Annual premium increases of 30percent

At last week's International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting, where finance ministers and central b

STRIP MINING FOR COAL in national parks is a deeply disturbing idea. It's also unlikely to ever happ

Barring an eleventh hour political reprieve for President Bush, William Jefferson Clinton of Hope, A

PRIVATIZING STATE ENTERPRISES may be tougher than Russia's leaders planned - and they have only them

The debate about presidential debates has been going on for several weeks. Bill Clinton's camp says

If politics can make for strange bedfellows, it can make for even stranger economic policy. In the c

GIVEAWAYS TO FARMERS are growing like weeds in the U.S. Agriculture Department. Less than a

GEORGE BUSH AND BILL CLINTON are endorsing much different economic plans, butneither has bee

The crisis in the European Community has delivered a killer blow to Eastern Europe's bid to integrat

During a private Washington luncheon this past August, Konstantin Natonovich Borovoi, a successful R

SHIPOWNER SUPPORT IS NOT A SUBSIDYYour Sept. 1 article on Japanese shipbuilding supp

U.S. officials aren't showing it publicly, but privately they are concerned about the competitive co

Much has been written in the last year about the value of a North American free-trade agreement. Fro

Consumers throughout the United States, especially those in Northeastern states far from the dusty g

AFTER YEARS OF DEBATE, Congress is close to passing a much-needed law to automate the paperbound Cus

IT IS WELCOME NEWS whenever regulators defer to the marketplace. The Interstate Commerce Commission

MOUNTING PILES OF GARBAGE in the Netherlands, and diminishing space to bury it, have prompted a Drac

Back in the days when Roy Rogers was a cowboy and not a fast-food restaurant, young boys ran around

Over the past few years, Asean, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has emerged as a key exp

Election-year politics have made "excessive" executive pay a hot issue. Critics have likened the arr

MOST ELECTRICITY in the United States is produced by regulated utilities, which also transmit that p

BILL CLINTON RECEIVED SOME GOOD NEWS Wednesday. Ron Carey, the energetic new president of the Teamst

Confused by the currency turmoil in Europe? The flood of ink spent on it suggests that all that need

WHY US JOBS WILL SHIFT TO MEXICOProf. Stefan H. Robock's opinion column Sept. 15 ("Why Plant

GERMANY WAS RIFE with turmoil last week, and not only in currency andfinancial markets. A da

In the bleak Depression winter of 1930-31, the leader of the U.S. Communist Party, William Z. Foster

Japan is a very rich country, with average individual incomes among the highest in the world, but Ja

SPAIN'S FINANCE MINISTER, Carlos Solchaga, is in Washington this week tilting at windmills. So are t

For too long, opponents of a capital gains tax cut have sought to portray a lower tax rate as a boon

IF THERE HAS BEEN A SILVER LINING in the demise of Eastern Airlines, Pan Am and other failed U.S. ca

Despite the narrow vote in the French referendum in favor of the Maastricht Treaty, policy-makers mu

ARTICLES CONFUSED RATE MATTERSI am writing to clarify the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) p

THE HIGH HOPES for European union, forged last December in Maastricht, have given way to a sober mor

With President Bush getting ready to submit the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to Congr

Who is to blame for the recent currency crisis on European foreign exchange markets? While e

TIMES HAVE BEEN TOUGH in the former Soviet Union the last few years, but thathasn't quelled

HOW MUCH DRUG TESTING IS ENOUGH? Probably less than the Transportation Department requires now. More

Prospects for enactment of a new export control law this year are brightening again. Months

At a Harvard teching hospital in Boston, the charge for an implantable cardiac defibrillator - a pac