Commentary

JAMES BAKER'S TRIP TO BEIJING on Sunday produced no breakthroughs on China's egregious humanrights p

Let's call it Country X. On its own motion, it is converting its economy from the communist

India, facing default on its $65 billion foreign debt without an immediate injection of funds, annou

The sell-off in the global stock market last week was a monument to the stupidity of one man_ U.S. S

PROPOSED HIGH-SPEED passenger rail systems are the darling of U.S. transportation planners anxious t

NEW APPROACHES TO ENERGY POLICYThere is much merit in the Journal's argument that America mu

A HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE finally moved last week to approve its chairman's bill to severely li

Now that Congress has put new energy legislation on hold at least temporarily, policy-makers have a

If all goes as planned at the Maastricht summit next month, 1991 could go down as one of the most re

EVEN AS EASTERN EUROPE, the Soviet republics and Latin America embrace open markets, many inCongress

What used to be called the Soviet Union is now falling apart far faster than almost anyone anticipat

Americans' faith in their banking and securities industries has been badly shaken by a rash of recen

This city is full of "competitiveness" rhetoric and proposals to sharpen American industry's competi

The scientific pork barrel surged to historic proportions this year, reaching $500 million in federa

AFTER YEARS OF FRUSTRATION, world trade negotiators are close to an agreement for cutting government

AMERICA'S DUMPING LAWS ARE FLAWEDOf late, dumping regulations are being used and abused as a

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills declared in 1989 that the United States is "the most open mark

COMMISSIONERS DEMAND EQUAL TIMEWe were surprised and disturbed that in your Nov. 4 special r

PENNSYLVANIA IS ABOUT TO LEARN a costly lesson. After more than six years of litigation against a ba

First-rate economically, Japan is third-rate politically, at home and abroad. Inept, uninspired lead

U.S. CONGRESSMEN aren't the only politicians who manage to stay in office forever. According to Reut

The serious problems confronting the U.S. merchant marine - a shrinking, money-losing industry that

THE UNITED STATES is not the only country angling to increase trade ties with Latin America. A new r

Japanese voters can hardly be blamed for the fall of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, the baby-faced Li

WESTERN EFFORTS to keep nuclear technology from outlaw nations have been something less than a succe

Twice in as many months, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has surrendered to overwhelming pol

Countertrade, once viewed as a necessary evil in international trade, now is an increasingly valuabl

Will they or won't they? With the Maastricht summit on European Community economic and polit

TRUCKING DECONTROL HAS WREAKED HAVOCI read with interest the Oct. 10 article, "What Truck CE

GERMANY SUPPORTS the European Community's single market program, but not, apparently, at the expense

THE SOVIET UNION hasn't been a military threat to the West for some time now. NATO made that officia

The economic reforms announced by Russian President Boris Yeltsin last month constitute a pragmatic

Amid the recent concern that America is being gobbled up by the Japanese comes Time Warner Inc., whi

Of all the ideas for bringing the U.S. economy out of the doldrums, the most unusual I've heard to d

ANTI-DUMPING LAWS FULFILL PURPOSEIn his Oct. 24 column ("Dumping Anti-Dumping Law," Page 8A)

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S environmental ministers are pushing their member states to accept a steep e

Even the CIA would now agree the Soviet Union is rapidly dissolving, with no identifiable economic o

I've been quiet about this for quite some time, but this year I've decided to speak out: I hate fall

JAPAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER is a consummate politician. He has held every major Japanese cabinet post

CABOTAGE LAWS ABOUND WORLDWIDEI have read with interest the various statements, reports, art