Commentary

Sadly, some of America's political and legal institutions have always had a streak of envy. And so i

President Clinton has unfavorably compared the 105th Congress to the ''Do Nothing'' Congress once ch

Exactly 173 years ago this week, on Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York.

You might think corporations, with their multi-million-dollar information technology budgets, would

In his superb book ''The Perfect Storm,'' author Sebastian Junger writes about a confluence of weath

Bankruptcy reform is dead. Like so many other proposed reforms, it fell victim to political warring

Ted Prince's Oct. 15 column, ''Further tales of the drayman'' (Page 7A), was on target in many respe

The European Union this week put into effect a law prohibiting the buying and selling of personal da

Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan became president, many Americans have believed that ''Big Government'

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that ''a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado

Environmental groups are up in arms over the decision by the World Trade Organization's appeals cour

The recent saga of Long Term Capital Management showed both industrial and developing country banks

Turkey and Pakistan - both Islamic nations, both Sunni and both friends of the United States - are e

I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself! Something actually worked - as advertised - right out o

A critical package was left behind last week when the 105th Congress pulled up the gangplank and s

I am writing in reference to the article by Bill Mongelluzzo titled ''Custom's ACS system running ou

Increasing numbers of executives are worrying about the inevitable downturn in the economy. Inside l

Large international financial institutions always challenge conservative sensibilities. But that was

Twenty years ago this month, Congress took what was characterized as the bold and ambitious step of

From his vacation villa, Josip Broz Tito used to gaze across Lake Bled toward the 15th-century churc

Ask American workers if they intend to stay with their company for the next several years, and you m

In a sign of someone's times, Club Med is turning away from an emphasis on exotic fun and frolic and

Vice President Al Gore, in his environmental zeal, has banned the federal government from scrapping

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences acted wisely when it chose the economist and philosopher Amart

Call them alliterati. People are charmed by Marilyn Monroe and Cal Coolidge and others with allitera

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky's trip to Europe last week must be termed a success, i

As the Year 2000 crisis looms, there's word that computers and humans may not have an exclusive fran

It arrived in the mail, alongside the usual bills. In no time, I was fully engrossed in this catalog

U.S. oil companies are doing big business in the Caspian Sea region. But there are concerns that arg

A few days ago, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov appointed as his legal adviser a man who, un

We jellyfish in the media have lacked the courage to hold the so-called ''environmentalists'' to a s

REPORT IS INDEPENDENTOF SECRETARY-GENERALOn Oct. 16, The Journal of Commerce published an op

The recently adjourned 105th Congress stands out as the most trade-phobic in recent memory. It did a

As Norfolk Southern and CSX continue to digest the remnants of Conrail, rail workers are facing a se

At the end of the day, after all the tea has been sipped and all the rituals of policy have been pre

Through simple trial and error, companies have learned they make more profit with retail prices like

A few years back we posed 20 questions about railroading. It's time to repeat that exercise, with a

At time when the federal government's budget is in the black for the first fiscal year in almost a g

Many financial observers are noting the quickness of the Federal Reserve Bank's response in cutting

Crude sword-rattling aside, congressional approval of $17.9 billion in new financing for the Interna