Commentary

Amid the financial turmoil in Asia, Latin America's economies managed their best performance in thre

Hours and hours of labor and thought went into your new Web site. The graphics are great, proprietar

Since 1980, mergers have reduced the number of major railroads from several dozen to fewer than 10.

A crackdown by Mexican immigration authorities on foreign observers in the southern state of Chiapas

The U.S. administration is carrying out its annual exercise of decertifying countries that don't pla

Congress will be presented soon with an ocean shipping deregulation plan that will expose this indus

The recent ruling by a panel of the World Trade Organization against the United States in a case tha

A REWRITEOF ALASKA'S HISTORYOver the years, members of the Alaskan congressional delegation

JONES ACT REFORMERS WANTTO SACRIFICE AMERICAN JOBSRob Quartel and the Jones Act Reform Coali

Recently released reports about health care in New York state should be a cause of concern for Ameri

Yes, Virginia, there is still a Latin America.Asia has been more than dominating the economi

NEW YORK REGULATORS OKNIAGARA MOHAWK REVAMPALBANY, N.Y. - State regulators approved Niagara

There is continuing debate on whether the U.S. government should allow the use of taxpayer money to

Taiwan and China appear to have put the worst of their squabbling and military threats behind them -

The new U.S.-Japan aviation agreement is not an open-skies agreement. It is nonetheless a good deal

U.S. high school seniors ranked near the bottom in a recent international exam in math and science,

Despite seven years of economic expansion, combined with historically low unemployment, American cou

The International Monetary Fund is the world economy's equivalent of our Federal Reserve: a lender o

''Independence of judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individual

Insurance fraud is a $20 billion-a-year business in the United States and growing so rapidly that in

With the financial crisis in East Asia winding down, the Congress is considering whether to appro

Employment ministers of the Group of Seven economic powers think they have found the Holy Grail of l

BACKGROUND CHECKSNEED BACKGROUND DATAGreg Johnson's recent column on criminal records of pro

In testimony before the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee recently, Federal Reserve Chairman

A Portuguese naval officer in Macau, Fernando Brito, took part in a peculiar ritual. Once a week he

Financial security and direct investment are the life blood of international trade. Thus, the announ

With price inflation virtually invisible in the U.S. economy, financial writers have been working ov

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has reportedly returned from Baghdad with a credible sol

BELARUS IS NO WORSE THANREST OF EASTERN EUROPEI consider The Journal of Commerce's accusatio

Ever since Asia's financial crisis broke, attention has been focused on short-run cures to stabilize

Five years ago, President Boris Yeltsin used his annual February address to a joint session of Parli

The move toward a European single currency is beginning to resemble a nightmare wedding: the partici

Brazil appears to have passed China as the chief target of U.S. retaliatory action for maritime poli

Despite the alarms of economic disaster sounded by many U.S. business leaders and conservative think

The IMF has rejected Indonesian President Suharto's proposed currency board for the rupiah. Although

So the International Monetary Fund, the global welfare agent for distressed despots and itinerant in

If your firm is engaged in making or selling hardware or software controlled under the International

Proponents of fundamental Social Security reform argue that the United States should look abroad for

Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., in a classic case of beating a dead horse, has embarked on a 500-mile cr

NATO's longstanding goal in Europe has been to keep the United States in, keep the Germans divided a