Commentary

President Clinton cited the benefits of deficit reduction in lowering interest rates, raising invest

Rhetoric in the Clinton White House is jobs, jobs, jobs. However, many, perhaps most, of its policie

GOVERNMENT HAS A HABIT of needless meddling. Take Southern California's Alameda Corridor, the nation

ANOTHER DAY, another fragile compromise. After 12 hours of talks, European Community governm

OFFICIALLY, the health-care debate kicks off this week with President Clinton's address to Congress

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION efforts to convince Japan to agree to numerical targets for U.S. imports aren

The European Community Commission has never had a president the caliber of Jacques Delors. B

MARAD LETTER DEPARTED FROM FACTI can only ascribe the Sept. 14 letter of Joan B. Yim, acting

Any plan for reforming U.S. health care should be judged by how well it meets two goals: universal c

IT'S NO EXAGGERATION to say that the European Community's foreign, trade and farm ministers hold the

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES have the world's largest trading relationship, so anything that makes i

In his recent, eloquent article in The Journal of Commerce, Tom Fiedler acknowledged the internal co

The appointment of the experienced, able governor of the Bank of France, Jacques de Larosiere, as th

Prospects may be improving for a multilateral steel trade pact. Leon Brittan, the European C

FREIGHT SHIPPERS won another legal victory this week in their decade-long fight against bogus bill c

IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE your own affairs, it's poor practice to tell others how to manage theirs. Yet th

Panama is about to undertake a major land-planning project for the former Canal Zone that can lead t

Regardless of the outcome, there is about to be an interesting debate over whether it is a good idea

President Clinton moved the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to the top of the political

IF THE ROAD TO HELL is paved with good intentions, consider what might happen to a new Palestinian s

THERE'S NO LIMIT to the marketing creativity - and downright silliness - of some companies. To wit,

NEW APPROACH TO NAFTAWhile the controversy over the North American free-trade agreement cont

Johan Joergen Holst, Norway's foreign minister, is getting international huzzahs for brokering this

This article is excerpted from a Congressional Budget Office report on the outlook for the economy a

The historic Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement opens the door to a dynamic peace-building process in

Last weekend, members of the Shadow Open Market Committee gathered in Washington. The committee is a

In the early 1960s, as a young reporter Makiko Arima was assigned to cover the police and court beat

PRESIDENT CLINTON can hardly be accused of moving too quickly to normalize relations with Vietnam.

IF BILL CLINTON'S commitment to freer trade was in doubt, it should be no longer. His ringing endors

AMERICAN CREWS IN WAR ZONESThe recent letter you published from Mr. Philip Loree ("R

It's neither new nor surprising that trade frictions within the European Community have been caused

Opponents of the North American free-trade agreement have added illegal immigration to the list of s

ONE OF BILL CLINTON'S first trips as president was to Silicon Valley, where he pledged government su

AMAZING. It wasn't just the swiftness of events leading to Monday's Middle East peace accord

President Clinton is to decide by Tuesday whether to renew trade embargoes on such countries as Cuba

FRANK LORENZO'S record as an airline manager is nothing to brag about. Two of the carriers he ran in

DOMINICANS PROTECT LABOR RIGHTSAs ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States,

He assumed office with barely a mandate to govern, his first six months on the job were uninspiring

ON THE SURFACE, Friday's news from international economists that the U.S. recovery remains on track

The contrast on the front page of an Argentine daily newspaper was startling. On one side, Nicholas