Commentary

NO ONE IN GOVERNMENT intends to waste money, but waste it they do. Take the Department of Transporta

Many of the cities and towns in this country rest economically on a base of small and medium-sized m

Writer James Fallows, in the last several issues of the Atlantic magazine, has been trying to make t

IN AN AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING, the New Year saw the official start of two important trading blocs: the

The failure of GATT trade negotiators to strike a market-opening deal for cross-border banking, secu

It is time for the United States to think hard about what it really wants the Russia of the future t

DR. DEMING DIDN'T SELL AMERICA SHORTI read with interest your editorial on the late Dr. W. E

ANOTHER SYMBOL of central economic control fell this week in China. The government said that as of J

PRESIDENT CLINTON is riding a wave of good economic news. To top off glad tidings of faster growth a

RICHARD GEPHARDT made big news last week, although it didn't get much attention. The House Majority

In 1992, while George Bush was still in the White House, journalists rarely saw an economic number t

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT admitted Tuesday inflation in major cities hit nearly 20 percent this year.

Contemplative Buddhist monks with the latest 29-inch Sony Trinitron. Teen-age ''anarchists" who stop

The day after Russia's parliamentary elections, President Clinton said he was not surprised by the s

The last three months have seen remarkable achievements in U.S. trade policy. The North American Fre

Lloyd's of London enters 1994 with dwindling hopes that Names - the private investors who stake thei

WHY TRUCK TARIFFS ARE NEEDEDThe recent letter from Edward M. Emmett, president of the Nation

ANY INSTITUTION that increases its membership by one-third must expect to change in important ways.

Some say it was a sordid deal cut between two former political foes who suddenly turned pragmatic. O

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has eagerly embraced the information age. The president was promoting a n

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Counties, National League of Cities and the I

'Tis the season to be jolly,'and, in a consumer culture, that means spend, spend, spend. Of

EVEN SANTA CLAUS has been touched by the worldwide unemployment problem. Although the jolly

RUSSIA'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION has given the West a case of the jitters. The strong showing of nati

While most of the country was busy preparing for the holidays, an obscure regulatory body created un

Few of the Uruguay Round trade accords reached last week at the Geneva-based General Agreement on Ta

JAPANESE STEEL TAKES ON ROCKEFELLERI have great respect for Sen. John D. Rockefeller

W. EDWARDS DEMING, America's best known management guru, was a harsh critic of U.S. corporations. In

Investors must deal with the fallout from the long-simmering confrontation between the White House a

In Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's first policy speech to Japan's parliament, he pledged to curb

Argentina is squeezing U.S. air carriers out of the profitable Buenos Aires market in order to prote

ROMANIA this week marks the fourth anniversary of the ouster of dictator Nicolae Ceausescuand the en

ALTHOUGH THE U.S. ECONOMY is improving, Europe is still in the doldrums. The Organization for Econom

BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY has increased sharply in the last few years, and trucking has been no exceptio

PERILS OF WORKING ON THE RAILROADThe problem of crew calling to which Larry Kaufman refers i

Will Rogers once observed, "The Congress is adjourned. The Republic is safe." He was right, but he f

Europe was the clear winner from last week's historic GATT world trade pact. Europe will rea

With the Uruguay Round trade deal completed, the Clinton administration is tackling another tough tr

WHO SAYS economics is a dismal science? Listen to most economists these days and you beginto feel po

At the height of the holiday season, the finer points of labor law and the president's role in resol