Commentary

Despite consternation about the collapse of the dollar against the deutsche mark and the yen, 1995 s

A WAY OUT OF THE AUTO DISPUTEAutomotive trade talks between the United States and Ja

The magnificent sight of Windsor Castle towering above the River Thames and surrounding park lands i

CARLOS MENEM, resoundingly re-elected last week as president of Argentina, knows what he wants to ac

Latin America and foreign debt are synonymous in the minds of many investors. But Mexico and other c

Fifty years ago today, America celebrated National Maritime Day in inland cities such as Kansas City

There's a Chinese trade sleeper in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's bill to reorganize the S

AMERICA'S out-of-control legal system has claimed another casualty: Dow Corning, maker of silicone g

While congressional debate began this week on plans to balance the federal budget by 2002, the searc

Argentine President Carlos Menem's triumph in last Sunday's elections is a victory for free market i

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor wants to slap new tariffs on $5.9 billion worth of Japanese

US SHOULD PRESERVE WORLD BANK FUNDINGYou reported recently that Congress may try to

It's the "O.J." of international trade. No DNA, but there's WTO and numbers like 301 and 23.

Just as uncertainty shrouds the future of AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, rumors abound in union ci

PEACE, it seems, pays. Northern Ireland's cease-fire, which has been in place for eight months now,

REINVENTING GOVERNMENT, the Clinton administration's campaign to make Washington work better, has a

We are entering the season for high level international economic strategy. Ministers of the Organiza

The murderous explosion in Oklahoma City last month has revived the public clamor for legislation to

Once again, the Clinton administration has marched to the brink of a trade war with Japan. This has

HAVING FAILED to bully Japan into accepting numerical quotas in automotive trade, the Clinton admini

THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB of any Congress is to balance the nation's books and spend the public's money

Ten years ago American companies and industries were losing global market share. Foreign products we

KEEPING MAJOR ROADS in good repair is one of the few things Democrats and Republicans in Congress ca

The Clinton administration's decision to sharply escalate the U.S.-Japan auto dispute reflects pre-e

An air of expectation hangs over France this week as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand prepare

The National Highway System wasn't supposed to be another Interstate Highway System with new ribbons

ELDERLY AMERICANS are the biggest beneficiaries of government programs, receiving more than a third

Even though last week's Russian-American summit in Moscow did little to resolve problems between the

As any politician knows, outright federal subsidies aren't the only way to please business constitue

THE HOUSE Republican plan for cutting the budget is controversial, but both parties should be able t

There was something for everyone in the double-barreled action U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kant

The best advice for potential investors in China has been "be cautious" and ''go slowly" even though

For the poor, for minorities, for our inner-city communities, our country's civil justice system is

FOR AN EXAMPLE of how the nation's legal system has run amok, consider this: O.J. Simpson attorney J

NO ONE HAS FOUGHT HARDER for stronger world trade rules than the United States. Now Washington is us

For the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Navigation Co., World War II started not on Sept. 3, 1939, w

FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR FREE TRADEWe are puzzled by a statement in Richard Lawrence's r

A new alarm about global warming has been sounded by the International Energy Agency. Unless there a

Like a nip from the bottle or a dose of Prozac, a little inflation makes us all feel better. Profits

President Clinton should move cautiously in making his third appointment to the Federal Reserve Boar