Commentary

A dockside historical marker says that just off this small island below Cape Hatteras, government fo

The thousands of Japanese passing through Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport every day attest to Japan's af

SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT ROH TAE-WOO has said that he is considering devaluing the won vis-a-vis the U.

THE U.S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA has fluctuated in severity over the past 25 years but has done little

Solidarity has been propelled into government by the unexpected Communist failure to form a coalitio

Whether or not one subscribes to the theory that Japan will surpass the United States as the world's

The negotiation, award and operation of international route rights in so- called limited entry marke

On a warm evening not long ago, the man from America and his English colleagues were seeking a table

THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S 5-1 vote Monday to allow Japanese securities firms to continue as primary deal

Imagine a once-prosperous country now experiencing draconian shortages of food, lighting, heating, t

AMERICA'S TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTH depends in good part on having enough Americans educated in the sci

Last month, Romania paid off all of its foreign debt, $11 billion ahead of schedule, making it perha

INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCY will be the topic of a mid-September report from House Energy and Comme

The cameraman pointed his right index finger to the introducer. "This is InvestAmerica Industry Repo

THE RISE IN THE PERSONAL SAVINGS RATE is the most important economic news of 1989. But creation of a

POLITICAL CHANGE IN POLAND has reached a crucial stage. Only a few weeks ago, the progressive Solida

GOVERNMENTS AT ALL LEVELS consistently maintain their right to keep secret information they deem too

ELECTRIC TRANSPORT WOULD CLEAN THE AIRAmerica is drowning in a sea of automobile exhaust. Ev

YEARS OF FINGER POINTING among ocean carriers, truck lines and shippers on the issue of overweight c

When Gifford Pinchot founded the Forest Service in 1905, he promised Congress that the national fore

With the 1987 adoption of the Single Europe Act, the European Community commenced in earnest the goa

THE MARKETS FOR CRUDE OIL, refined products and natural gas are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

If perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program for restructuring the Soviet economy, is to work, then t

The recent report supported by the Ford Foundation, "The Uruguay Round and Beyond," has suggested th

HONG KONG ATTRACTS MULTINATIONAL FIRMSIn your July 26 article titled "Cabinet Reshuffle in U

The agreement recently reached by Mexico and its commercial creditors has received its share of crit

In the financial sector, the United Stated is losing its global predominance. Part of that is natura

After Mexico, who? Can the Brady plan - Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's proposal to help

President Bush last week signed U.S. taxpayers on to a $300 billion check to bailout corrupt savings

IS THERE NO END TO THE MISCHIEF that government bureaucrats can think up? The latest threate

THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOSES MONEY on purpose, selling timber below cost to provide economic suppor

THE "SMALL PACKAGE" air route between the United States and Japan was one of the U.S. Department of

WINSTON CHURCHILL used to say that Americans are the most charitable people on earth. True or not, t

These are heady days for a divided Europe. Lufthansa, the West German airline, has just made its fir

Japan is eagerly promoting new forms of economic organization in the Pacific. But its enthusiasm is

An indicator helpful in determining when a long-term bull market in common stocks is entering its ma

THERE ARE A LOT of things wrong about the European Community's proposed ban on the milk-production d

IF THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to get a new financial infusion, it first must define its role

In American economic history, there appears to be a very repetitive long-term pattern of approximate

GO ABROAD, YOUNG WOMAN, GO ABROAD: That's the advice from an increasing number of international comp