Commentary

"In order to negotiate, you have to be free," says Felix G. Rohatyn. The Wall Street investm

THERE'S NO SHORTAGE of burning business on Congress's plate. Oil spill legislation is stuck in confe

If Secretary of State James Baker were wise and not merely smart, he would have delayed his departur

REMEMBER WHEN, ALMOST TWO years ago, Japan begged the United States not to force it to accept rice i

The Finns have a word for the deteriorating economic situation in the Soviet Union: catastroika. For

LEST THERE BE ANY DOUBT, Romania's 5-month-old government has clarified the nature of its rule. Dict

Melvyn Copen is encouraged. He may even be vindicated. Mr. Copen is rector of Instituto Cent

THE COFFEE CARTEL crashed. The tin agreement exploded. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Count

In a rear-guard action to prop up short-term interest rates, the Federal Reserve system drained a su

In the age of supersonic aircraft, hovercraft, supertankers and high-speedtrains, there are

Have you heard the one about Greek shipowners buying back the ships that they sold to Norwegian owne

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has been so eager to praise the successes of airline deregulation that it has

Years ago, when ships were owned by proud individuals with strong characters, owners would name thei

In this ancient capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, with its low, slightly oriental architect

LIFE INSURANCE is a rather ironic euphemism. After all, only the survivors of the insured can colle

Today, we certainly are not exaggerating if we predict that the 1990s will become the "decade of Eur

What's my hobby? Shoplifting. Wait. I don't indulge in larceny, or what the misguided refer to as th

COMMERCE SECRETARY Robert Mosbacher's statement last week before the House Republican task force on

ONCE AGAIN THE UNITED STATES is giving the Caribbean nations the back of its hand. It's bad

Nelson Mandela will be arriving here next week in the nick of time. His burden in South Afri

FORWARDERS AREN'T INDISPENSABLEThe basic premise of Tony Seideman's article, "High-Tech Take

WITH THE DECISION THURSDAY to hold off on any trade sanctions against India, the Bush administration

The Cold War may indeed be over, as Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev warmly avowed, but some frigi

When Mexico's president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was here last October, his reshaping of the Mexi

THEY ALL LAUGHED AT ERIE CANAL, TOOThe opinion of Marc Levinson, editorial director of The J

DEREGULATION IS A GOOD THING, but it seems to have become sacrosanct of late, sometimes to the detri

What good news that Professor Paul Krugman, who once served Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advi

THE "UNFAIRNESS" LOBBY is at work in Washington once more. With the claim that other nations are usi

Apparently we will hear no more talk of Donald Trump for president. There was a time, before

NOTHING IS ON PAPER YET, but the presidents of the United States and Mexico earlier this week announ

Post mortems on the credit crisis caused by the savings and loan disaster have become Washington's m

Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, once thought to be no more than a temporarycaretaker, now is s

If this port city's economy doesn't benefit significantly from the changes now going on in Eastern E

Mikhail Gorbachev has tried hard to relegate the Soviet Communist Party Congress, scheduled to conve

One can pick up the morning paper and read about new trade agreements and special trade liaisons for

DON'T DO TODAY WHAT YOU CAN put off till tomorrow. That seems to be the philosophy behind the Bush

THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. Alberto Fujimori, a first-generation Peruvian and dark horse candi

The class struggle isn't a very fashionable thing to talk about. The ideology of our age holds that

The bell may be about to ring for another round in the long fight to revise maritime subsidies.<

It is well-known by now that prices of many Japanese-made goods are higher in Japan than in the Unit