Commentary

Although not prone to self-pity, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo has every right to feel like a la

America's robber barons - the preferred, more sensitive term is plutocrats - made serious money.

The Clinton administration and Congress have received some pointed comments over the last couple of

Everybody's got privacy - and unexpected violations of privacy - on their minds these days. After al

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on whether to return fast-track tra

Watching sports events on television without paying is fun. But someday soon the fun will be over -

''Walk fast,'' goes an old Russian maxim, ''and you can overtake misfortune. Walk slowly, and it wil

This year, the federal government will generate a budget surplus for the first time in several decad

Deregulation of electric power is relatively new. This summer, power traded on the spot market reach

The bailout model of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury is an abject failure. Ins

Charles Dickens started his novel, ''A Tale of Two Cities,'' with the famous line, ''It was the best

The country's education, health, civic and art organizations could collect an additional $3 billion

American goods and services must confront fierce worldwide competition in the 1990s, and America' hi

A major reason for the strong U.S. economy over the last 15 years has been a gradual improvement, th

Like it or not, it's time for farmers in the United States and the rest of the world to seriously co

The European Commission made big headlines last week when it levied massive fines on the Trans-Atlan

In 1996, Congress took an important step in reducing government's role in the marketplace and in set

Even in his politically weakened state, President Clinton can still muster the energy to do battle o

The economic crisis that began in Asia is now turning into a crisis of confidence throughout the wor

With the American presidency floundering, Russia turning its back on economic reform and Asia's deep

Attention Linux terrorists: It is the policy of this newspaper not to negotiate or meet ransom deman

The first supermarket I tried was close to our home, on Tishinskaya Square, which has a little park

Al Cohen, who owns a beauty-supply shop in Pittsburgh, got an unexpected notice the other day. It wa

The semester started as the world's financial crisis escalated. Since the real world is always the b

Is Europe strong enough to save the world, economically speaking?Only a few years ago, that

China may not have everything the West has, but it's about to catch up in one area: expensive gourme

Typically, economists have attempted to understand the process of growth at the level of the aggrega

Vast forests of the nation's lovelier trees are endangered by the Asian long-horned beetle, another

The Shadow Open Market Committee, a group of business and academic economists who meet to assess pub

After 30 years of unbalanced federal budgets, taxpayers are looking forward to the well-deserved tax

Lost in all the rhetoric over the nation's trade policy - the starkly painted positions of advocacy

Before Valium, there was Mozart.I say this with no disrespect, but in awe, actually, of the

The chattering classes have made up their collective mind: President Clinton has lost their confiden

Aaron Lukas, in his Sept. 9 opinion article (''A rotten deal at Commerce,'' Page 6A) regarding the a

In what can only be the affirmation of long-held suspicion, the College Board has issued a report in

An all-too-familiar trend in federal regulatory practices took center stage recently when the Federa

Capitalism, after all, is about boom and bust.The evidence is all around us of some cyclical

In recent weeks, environmentalists have joined with some Democrats in the House of Representatives t

In October of last year, Tokyo - with three Japanese ship lines facing $4 million in sanctions and a

During his visit to the Dominican Republic on Aug. 21, Fidel Castro, as he has done in the past, rai