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THE CONSPIRACY BEHINDTHE FALLING GOLD PRICESYou're doing your readers a disservice by printi

New car sales in Japan fell more than 20 percent in November, raising European anxiety levels. Europ

History's most famous Bosnian, Gavro Princip - whose assassination of an Austrian leader sparked Wor

As the Clinton administra- tion weighs narrowing the scope of ''fast-track'' trade authority next ye

Had Adolph Hitler won his war against Russia, he had an economic reform plan that should ring a bell

A recurrent argument behind the open markets and free-trade debate holds that U.S. manufacturing is

SENATE SHOULDSTOP IMPEDINGIt's understandable that Tim Rhein, chief executive of APL Ltd., h

It is almost more than the news media can bear, certainly more than we can properly cover.Th

In July 1993, the European Union instituted its banana import regime, putting in place a license sys

So how bad, really, is Asia's economic crisis? South Korea, the world's 11th-largest economy, this w

For decades, the price of milk in the United States has been set under a convoluted system of federa

Telecommunications deregulation - made law under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - is bogged down

Business and other interest groups are waging a multimillion dollar media campaign to convince the U

English cattle farmers haven't had it easy. The outbreak of mad cow disease that has killed 22 peopl

This week at a conference in Malaysia, International Monetary Fund head Michel Camdessus outlined ''

Enormous deposits of ice-like crystals beneath the seabed could provide enough energy to power North

It's time the nation took stock of New Labor.Two years ago, the AFL-CIO threw out the old gu

The traditional concept of flag-state control for ship stems from the requirement for and possession

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the dour leftist politician, will be sworn in as mayor of Mexico City on Friday

KVAERNER DEAL IS A BOONFOR PHILADELPHIA YARDTom Baldwin, in his Inside Talk (Oct. 23, Page 2

With the largest work force and the richest diversity of economic resources in Central America, Guat

Assuming for a moment that American negotiators succeed in promoting President Clinton's global warm

Faced with stiff opposition, the Federal Trade Com- mission Monday left unchanged the narrower defi

After Jiang Zemin returned to Beijing, most Americans turned their attention away from China. Within

ANTITRUST IMMUNITYSEEN AS MISGUIDEDThe prologue to a famous Frank Sinatra song says, ''As I

Among the pine trees of northern Greece, Aristotle is at the heart of a simmering war with a group o

The South African Revenue Service offices in downtown Cape Town emptied one recent morning as the en

This is supposed to be the Year of the Balanced Budget. It turned out to be the year of the largest-

Russia is caught up in the contagion spreading from the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia.

If a single image hovers above the conference on global warming being held this week in Kyoto, Japan

President Clinton's proposal to return greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2008-2012 leaves a

Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus has resigned, entangled in a campaign-financing scandal of his own

The U.S. stock market has more than doubled in value since 1993. At the same time, the average emerg

With the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade completed over three years ago

On Nov. 30, the United Nations peacekeeping mission withdrew from Haiti. Three years after U.S. troo

Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals San Francisco, has a problem:

Haiti's best hope for peace, prosperity and freedom lay in the development of a vigorous and industr

Will Asia's economic crisis do the Federal Reserve Board's work for it?Many Fed watchers thi

PROMISE OF FREETRADE REMAINS STRONGYour article on U.S.-Mexican trade (''U.S. and Mexican co

In the Middle East, money talks - but not as loudly as politics. That's the lesson to be learned fro