Commentary

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

It says right here in The Wall Street Journal that neither George Bush nor Bill Clinton can add, tha

Anyone who ships goods through U.S. ports or on U.S. waterways should be interested in legislation n

WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S Exchange Rate Mechanism now in tatters, Germany's powerful Bundesbank

With private capital churning through Latin American markets at a rapid pace, economic stability in

UNDER SENSIBLE NEW RULES adopted this week, federal regulators will use a bank's capital reserves as

RADIOACTIVE WASTE is a gruesome legacy of the Cold War. In plants and laboratories across the countr

The commodity known as sugar has been in world surplus for decades. This year an extra 3 million met

DUBAI TRADE SHOW WAS A SUCCESSWe read with interest your article, "Kuwait Back in Business"

Bill Clinton's proposal to raise revenue from foreign companies in the United States by tightening t

The dramatic realignment of European currencies last weekend was only the latest in a long sequence

GEORGE BUSH AND BILL CLINTON have proposed dramatically different health careplans, but they

Presidential campaigns are rarely the place to look for ideas that combine farsightedness and practi

The Chinese Communist Party once co-opted women by promising that equality would follow automaticall

CHALK ONE UP FOR COMMON SENSE. The Energy Department no longer plans to spend $6 billion on a new pl

Some labor leaders are opposing the North American free-trade agreementbecause they believe

The last three years marked one of the longest periods of slow growth for the U.S. economy in the po

GERMANY'S CENTRAL BANK, which has earned its spurs as an inflation fighter, took a necessary step ba

The British are famous for their sense of humor, but surely worrying about a drought in this rain-so

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION should move quickly to approve the new commercial alliance between Northwest

SHIP LINES REBUT SHIPBUILDERS' CLAIMSWe are appalled by the ongoing efforts of the S

THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN RAINING relentlessly on George Bush's parade. Last week brought more gloomy new

With the announced retirements of the top two Democrats on the House Public Works and Transportation

As United Nations inspectors again risk their lives to retrieve sensitive documents pertaining to Ir

HONG KONG, an intermediate stop for many exporters moving goods between China and the United States,

SIMPLIFYING THE TAX CODE is a perennial goal of the good-government crowd. The problem, of course, i

The French go to the polls on Sept. 20 to vote on the European Community's Maastricht treaty, thereb

George Wallace is remembered for many things, some good, some bad. But of all the stridencies that e

On Labor Day the National Insurance Consumer Organization (NICO) held a press conference, calling fo

REAL STORY ON MERGER BREAKDOWNYour cover story "Insurance Agent Groups Call Off Merger Plan"

The North American free-trade agreement is not the first such pact with Mexico to encounter stiff op

In a new book, Walter B. Wriston, former chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp, tells of

DECLINING WAGES for U.S. workers is fast becoming a central issue in the presidential campaign. Real

THE CLOCK IS TICKING for Poland's state enterprises, many of which are close to bankruptcy.

"A significant event." That's the phrase most often used by the Japanese and Chinese to describe the

The trashing of the economy by news organizations to discredit President Bush is a disgrace to journ

SOME SUBSIDIES refuse to die. Take, for example, the Carter-era subsidy to producers of natural gas

Mexican President Carlos Salinas says free trade and foreign investment will improve the lot of work

AFTER 64 DAYS OF WRANGLING, California last week finally resolved its budget mess. Here are a few th