Commentary

THE END SEEMS NEAR for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The agency's demise deserves no tea

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: IT'S NOT A CONFERENCEI read with interest your March 20 editorial, "Look

The winds of democratic change have become hurricanes in Eastern Europe and are extending themselves

When it comes to policy-making, almost anyone can hold a candle to the U.S. Congress. That's why Sec

The first name of Jeffrey Sterling, chairman of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (the

Farmers wonder if Japan's largest agricultural group is friend or foe. With U.S. trade negotiators d

THE RESTRUCTURING OF Venezuela's $20 billion debt to foreign commercial banks is being heralded as a

Since its creation, the death of the European Free Trade Association has been announced with regular

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON MEXICOI have read with the greatest concern the March 14 arti

WHAT DOES HIRING A FRENCH executive have to do with teaching new skills to laid-off workers in Detro

It has been painfully clear for quite some time that the fate of the ongoing U.S.-Japan Structural I

Looking at the advance of freedom and democracy in Eastern Europe, most Americans feel a sense of sa

Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, last week pr

PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS from around the world stood in line in Windhoek Tuesday night to ce

IT'S GOING TO BE HARD, but let's get it over with. That was the clear message of Sunday's elections

In October 1987, the stock market crashed. The Dow Jones Industrial average declined over 508 point

Democrats warn that Washington must save high-tech industries from shortsighted, penny-pinching poli

IF IT LOOKS LIKE A CONFERENCE, talks like a conference and acts like a conference, shouldn't it be t

The time has come for the European Community to translate its good will toward the infant democracie

That kinder, gentler spirit that's wafting across Washington may be infectious. Even some of the ha

The first free elections in East Germany are over, and the new government faces an economy in a down

Speculation is growing that Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher may resign this summer. The

PRIVATELY OWNED AIRPORTS? TOLL ROADS built and managed by private entrepreneurs? These are among th

THE PEPPER COMMISSION, the bipartisan congressional task force assigned to examine the failures of t

LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, Chinese economic policy planners said inflation threatened to bring dow

PROFIT ESTIMATES WEREN'T SUPPRESSEDIn his March 7 column, "Doctoring the News on Profits" (O

About 20 years ago, the bankruptcy of six railroads threatened vital rail freight service throughou

The 1990s loom large as the decade of aggressive strategic technology management. The new alliance

The call to President Bush, by someone pretending to be the president of Iran, was a cruel hoax beca

INSURANCE REGULATION: GIVE STATES A CHANCEThe recent attention focused on the financial cond

WHEN TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner began shaping his national transportation policy 10

The debate over federal truck deregulation has focused largely on whether rates have gone up more o

During the signing of the "first" Brady plan debt reduction package, Mexican President Carlos Salina

IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE to cheer the inauguration Thursday of Brazil's first elected president i

A SAFE DISTRICT CAN MAKE all the difference. In the case of Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., the chair

Hollywood may not buy it, but Washington and Tokyo are scripting a titillating suspense drama. In fa

The White House was on the warpath against the Federal Reserve Board last week. The Los Angeles Time

Few companies may be as closely identified with the Thatcher era as Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertisi

WOMEN CONTRIBUTE TO TWA CARGO TEAMThe article "Women Make Strides in Field" (Air Commerce, F

While there has been much discussion about debt forgiveness, concessionary credits, equity-debt swap