Commentary

The Far Eastern Economic Review characterized President Clinton's recent trip to China as ''eating c

For more than a year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported U.S. unemployment rates at or belo

ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING:CONRAIL'S SALE PRICEHenry C. Wolf, executive vice president of finan

Business guru Tom Peters once said, ''The No. 1 premise of business is that it ought to be fun. If i

Give Bud Shuster credit. The Pennsylvania congressman, who chairs the House Transportation Committee

A couple of old Moscow hands passed through town recently - English journalists who worked in the ci

Diverted perhaps by the unprecedented legal wrangling surrounding President Clinton these days, the

At the very moment that the U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a questionable antitrust claim again

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its strongest rival, the center-right Na

By their very design, health maintenance organizations can naturally be expected to irritate people.

Advocates of aggressive actions to avert potential damages from global climate change are frequently

The news keeps getting worse for exporters with an eye on the Japanese market. Sales of imported car

It is the quintessential American thing.I am wandering through the mall, browsing and shoppi

Returning to Tokyo after two months of recharging intellectual and inspirational batteries at Stanfo

Mexico's economy has recovered handsomely since the 1994-95 peso crash, but the political system has

Supply chain management, once an arcane specialty, has become mainstream.Supply chain integr

Fears once again are rising that China may devalue its currency. This week, a Chinese government thi

In a town known for hyperbole, Associate Attorney General Robert Litt may have taken the prize when

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and her fellow trade ministers from the 18 economies o

POSTAL SERVICE CAN'TDELIVER NEWSPAPERS ON TIME''Free the Mail,'' says your July 7 editorial

After nearly four years of sometimes tortured debate, an ocean shipping deregulation bill is close t

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed on the premise that only when the trut

The old saying that history repeats itself may soon come to pass for rural America, with disastrous

For emerging-market investors, the concept of pivotal states - nations that have a more significant

CARRIERS SHOULD NOTHAVE ANTITRUST IMMUNITYWe are glad to see someone else complaining about

The House may have passed a campaign finance reform bill this week, but big contributors will always

Vice President Al Gore wasn't in Moscow long enough last month to catch a performance of a fairy tal

In the future, government-issued money as we know it may disappear as people choose to hold electron

With sultry weather here, can the back-to-school spending spree be far behind? Merchants are rubbing

BY ERIK CRAFTAmerica's passenger train system has announced a 6 percent increase in ridershi

As the U.S. trade deficit soars, so does the risk of trade conflict. So far, trade relations with As

In recent decades, Argentina usually has been in the eye of the storm whenever emerging-market natio

People who eat organic foods are about eight times more likely to be attacked by the deadly new E. c

You need a new sweater. You take out your mail-order catalog of choice and browse around. You've dec

There is increasing media and political attention being paid to ''Doomsday'' scenarios of domestic t

SHIPPING BILL NEEDSFURTHER INVESTIGATIONPeter Tirschwell, your assistant managing editor, is

The Black Forest's old-time craftsmen used to consider wooden cuckoo clocks to be high-tech German e

Asia's economic crisis was expected to lead to an export surge as weakened currencies made goods mor

As cities and states weigh in with their own sanctions to influence foreign nations, they may be ign

Are the good times over for the U.S. economy? After a long run of extraordinary growth, U.S. output