Commentary

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has made improving surveillance of insurers' fin

There's a vocal minority of Americans who think the United States ought to be more like Japan. You h

Japanese direct investment in the United States makes headlines and spurs our lawmakers to action. B

Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's president-elect, has pledged, once he takes office March 15, to f

ONE OF THE PARADOXES of the modern world is that arms control agreements cost money. While the purpo

TRUST FUND SURPLUSES NOT REDUCING DEFICITYour Jan. 31 editorial, "Lack of Imagination," indi

THE ANDEAN DRUG WAR is both a moral battle and an economic conflict, involving more than 200,000 rur

BILL COULD REDUCE UTILITY COMPETITIONWilliam T. McCormick Jr., chairman of CMS Energy Corp.,

In Washington, the trade debates revolve around protecting "American" business against surging impor

It's the season when talk about taxes is most timely and least welcome. The April 16 deadlin

THAT FAMILIAR FACE on the front page of Wednesday's Financial Times belonged to Alan Greenspan. Ther

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY Clayton Yeutter isn't known as a gambler. But his department's proposal to rev

The closest I ever came to military service was three years of high school Reserve Officers' Trainin

A HANDFUL OF INSIDER traders has gone to jail, but run-of-the-mill violators of the securities laws

Early on it was supposed to be a lower house election that would end 34 years of rule by Japan's bus

Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, had a simple message for Congress Tuesday: Whilethe U.S. e

JAPANESE TRADE NEGOTIATORS are fond of repeating that domestic political constraints make it hard to

THEY'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER TIGHT budget year in Washington. But some of the fiscal year 1991 budgets

The plight of the Delaware & Hudson Railway comes before Congress and a bankruptcy court as the resu

NEED SOME EXTRA ENERGY? Just eat a bowl of Kellogg's Rice Krispies, fortified with extra "energy-rel

West Germany's leadership finally has awakened to the reality that East German Prime Minister Hans M

QUAKE COVERAGE COST COULD ROCK ECONOMYYour wire service story, "Industry Calls for Federal Q

IS CALIFORNIA STARTING another tax trend? The Alcohol Tax Initiative Committee is gathering signatur

Almost a year after Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady launched the plan that bears his name, and whi

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel Skinner seems to like nothing better than a good study. But after ni

Consolidating the ongoing Mexican economic reform is in the forefront of President Carlos Salinas de

SHOREHAM PLANT SHOULD BE USEDThe article "Electric Power Demand Increases in Northeast" (Dec

Back when the American League had only eight teams and the New York Yankees seemed to be champion ev

Cocom, the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, was formed in 1949 to prevent t

INSURERS NOT HEADED FOR INSOLVENCY CRISISI strongly dispute the assertion that deficiencies

DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT INC., the investment house that created the junk bond as a form of corporate

EVEN AS DREXEL was offering deals too good to be true on Wall Street, a similar activity was under w

Hardly anyone noticed, but President Bush called for a radical transformation of American society i

Officials from the United States and the 16 other nations that comprise Cocom - the Coordinating Com

THE MOMENTUM TOWARD ONE GERMANY well may be unstoppable. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's pr

NELSON MANDELA, released Sunday after nearly three decades as one of the world's best-known politica

The success of an undertaking as ambitious as the 1992 project to create a single European market is

Speaking to the Guild of Business Travel Agents here late last month, Cecil Parkinson, Britain's tra

THAT STYLISH ITALIAN SUIT, as many an American traveler has learned, probably costs more in Milan th

Americans have rather badly misgauged the meaning of events in Eastern Europe. What has been greeted