Commentary

With the 1987 adoption of the Single Europe Act, the European Community commenced in earnest the goa

HONG KONG ATTRACTS MULTINATIONAL FIRMSIn your July 26 article titled "Cabinet Reshuffle in U

THE MARKETS FOR CRUDE OIL, refined products and natural gas are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

If perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program for restructuring the Soviet economy, is to work, then t

The agreement recently reached by Mexico and its commercial creditors has received its share of crit

The recent report supported by the Ford Foundation, "The Uruguay Round and Beyond," has suggested th

After Mexico, who? Can the Brady plan - Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's proposal to help

IS THERE NO END TO THE MISCHIEF that government bureaucrats can think up? The latest threate

In the financial sector, the United Stated is losing its global predominance. Part of that is natura

THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOSES MONEY on purpose, selling timber below cost to provide economic suppor

President Bush last week signed U.S. taxpayers on to a $300 billion check to bailout corrupt savings

An indicator helpful in determining when a long-term bull market in common stocks is entering its ma

THE "SMALL PACKAGE" air route between the United States and Japan was one of the U.S. Department of

Japan is eagerly promoting new forms of economic organization in the Pacific. But its enthusiasm is

WINSTON CHURCHILL used to say that Americans are the most charitable people on earth. True or not, t

These are heady days for a divided Europe. Lufthansa, the West German airline, has just made its fir

THERE ARE A LOT of things wrong about the European Community's proposed ban on the milk-production d

IF THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to get a new financial infusion, it first must define its role

In American economic history, there appears to be a very repetitive long-term pattern of approximate

GO ABROAD, YOUNG WOMAN, GO ABROAD: That's the advice from an increasing number of international comp

When you write about business for some 25 years, you cannot help but become a student of leadership.

CAPITAL FLIGHT, TRADE FINANCING UNRELATEDOn the first page of the July 5 Journal of Commerce

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT CHAIRMAN MAO? Asked how the world would have been different had Lee Harve

Americans expecting rapid changes in the trade balance because of the dollar's recent gyrations will

A dramatic, far-reaching inter-agency battle has broken out on the Washington scene between the Defe

AIR TRAVELERS KNOW that few bargains are found on lightly traveled routes. It's more than likely tha

ALMOST MORE PRECIOUS to American teen-agers than life itself is their wheels, their right to roll. I

During the last several months, there has been unprecedented attention paid to employee stock owners

From the moment my flight from Warsaw touched down in Prague, it was obvious that Czechoslovakia is

RAILROADS HAVE BECOME the latest boutique items in Wall Street's quest for new things to buy and sel

It's summertime, and the livin' on Wall Street is easy. Like Ole Man River, stock prices keep rollin

INSURANCE ADVOCATE DOESN'T MAKE SENSEYour call for the appointment of an independent insuran

At the end of the Pacific war in the summer of 1945, the narrow Japanese roads were nearly empty of

ON THE DAY A TERRORIST GROUP in Lebanon said it had hanged U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins,

THEY CALLED IT THE WAR TO END WARS, but when it began 75 years ago, no one could have imagined the h

SPRAY DEODORANTS will be outlawed. Gasoline-powered lawn mowers will be no more. Even backyard barbe

WEST SHOULDN'T ADD TO CHINA'S TRAGEDYWhat compels some Americans to defend the actions of th

While most companies are still talking about the need to be bigger, diversify and expand into new ma

There is a common misperception that the federal funds rate is an accurate measure of whether moneta

POLITICS IS POLITICS and economics is economics, China's leaders tell the world; even as they contin