Commentary

When Gary Wheeler goes to work in the morning, many of his co-workers are nowhere to be seen. Instea

Asia's spectacular growth has dazzled economists and business leaders alike for almost three decades

Suppose you owned an enchanted forest. Now suppose you had servants who sold the tall timber in your

Globalization holds the promise of boosting growth and raising world living standards. For companies

KEEP MARITIMEDEREGULATION ALIVESince when has the simple matter of bringing together a buyer

Americans aren't getting their money's worth for the estimated $200 billion spent each year on envir

The U.S. economy continues to hum along. Inflation remains at bay and not a forecaster in sight is p

Washingtonians are down in the dumps.It was bad enough when the rest of the country just did

The European Commission has changed its mind and preliminarily endorsed the $15.5 billion merger bet

Perhaps you've seen the newspaper ads - full-page takeouts with big black borders: ''For your own sa

The Republican Congress' proposal to cut estate taxes would have a social benefit that has gone unno

In all parts of America, there is beginning a revolt against health maintenance organizations by man

The president and the Congress have one last chance this year to agree on fast-track legislation for

Renewed attention to Africa - notably at the recent Denver summit and other high-level conferences,

Congress holds its semiannual monetary policy circus, called the Humphrey-Hawkins hearings, this wee

The mutual recognition agreements recently initialed between the United States and the European Unio

As marine blockades go, last weekend's anti-U.S. protest by Canadian fishermen, which ended Monday e

The news coming out of Africa isn't very good these days. In fact, with a few exceptions, it's downr

So it's official. The European Union has decided it will invite five former Eastern bloc countries t

A CLEAR THREAT FROMMONOPOLISTIC RAILROADSYour July 9 story, ''Ports see threat in remarks by

Freight rates may be at rock-bottom levels because of the huge number of new containerships now bein

President Clinton is pushing ahead on signing a U.N. sponsored global-warming treaty that would pena

I kicked the habit a year ago.Most people give up smoking because of the rising cost of ciga

A steady drop in gold prices over the past dozen years is raising questions about whether it's time

France's new Socialist government is agonizing over how much and how fast to privatize publicly owne

The hot international aviation issue this summer is whether the United States will agree to negotiat

Australia's central bank recently sold 167 metric tons of gold - two-thirds of its official gold hol

The U.S. Conference of Mayors at its recent annual meeting in San Francisco adopted a resolution cal

Washington would be faced with a difficult legal brief in the World Trade Organization if it decided

The international labor movement accused the China-backed Hong Kong government on Friday of tramplin

Amtrak's fatal flaw:government monopolyThis is in response to the July 14 opinion article ('

International Business Machines Corp. and Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest SpA media group said Friday

After arriving home from ceremonies transferring Hong Kong back to China, Chinese PresidentJiang Zem

Europe's misguided threat to block Boeing's merger with McDonnell-Douglas has set the stage for a na

In a possible preview of the fall debate on ''fast track'' trade authority, U.S. Trade Representativ

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, there can be no question of whether the United S

This is the kind of summer that tries journalists' ink-stained souls.Mouths were set for a s

The Teamsters union is making a goat of itself in California.Oakland-based Mills College, wh

In the last two years, more than 20,000 business alliances have been formed worldwide, and about 75

Eduard Shevardnadze, who this week began his first official visit to Washington as Georgia's preside