Commentary

Santa Claus came early to Capitol Hill this year, in the unlikely form of Michael Boskin, a Stanford

At this time four years ago, President-elect Clinton was planning his foreign policy around a beguil

THE NEW MARITIME LAWSEEMS TO GO OVERBOARDThe Oct. 22 letter from Maritime Administrator A. J

The Journal of Commerce recently published an editorial calling for an end to U.S. unfair trade laws

When the federal government announced three years ago that it would close the Charleston Naval Base,

Market reforms introduced in India five years ago are starting to pay off. U.S. investors, in parti

Why should a constitutional crisis in a tiny, land-locked, out-of-the-way part of the former Soviet

An important part of the government's transportation rulebook is up for a long-overdue revision.

Is it possible that megacompanies such as McDonald's, Wal-Mart or IBM may someday become extinct not

Japan could rise from its economic slump by deregulating five key sectors of its economy, the Organi

An important preamble to China's accession to the World Trade Organization is playing out this week

It was only a fender-bender, a minor rear-ending of a car in the parking lot of a Boise, Idaho, shop

LOOK WHO'SFOR FREE TRADE NOWIn rightly criticizing China's plan to set ocean cargo prices in

The campaign to repeal or roll back major portions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportuni

While many in corporate America tried to cozy up to President Clinton during the campaign, there is

For almost 20 years, people have been worrying about whether the electric and magnetic fields in the

The recent summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the Philippines was a crucial ev

For centuries, physicians have agonized over ways to bring greater precision to the art and science

America's role as the leading producer of such high-tech goods as advanced avionics and lasers gives

Free trade is a concept organized labor views with profound suspicion. Despite mounting evidence to

THE OTHER SIDE OF AHOTEL LABOR DISPUTEThis letter concerns your Oct. 23 article entitled ''A

The Port of New York's No. 2, Frank Caggiano, is leaving. So is Tacoma's Executive Director John Ter

The Netherlands remains Europe's best-kept secret, quietly and successfully grafting economic libera

America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.

Vietnam has moved quickly to open its economy to competition and foreign investment, but its progres

I'd like to use this space today to bash big business. If the media are as liberal as some critics s

Handsome, square-jawed Peter Bijur, president and CEO of Texaco Inc., is a thoroughly modern busines

Not too long ago, most economic analysts and old ''Asia hands'' were predicting gloom and doom over

President Clinton apparently can't decide who should head his National Economic Council.The

We're mediocre! We're mediocre!U.S. students will be first in the world in math and science

One of the least-known features of the bruising, $10 billion battle for control of Conrail is that n

Britain's 1997 budget, dubbed ''judicious and prudent'' in local editorials, sends mixed signals to

EQUITABLE SPELLS OUTOVERSEAS POLICY RULESI would like to correct a misstatement by an Equita

The rapid growth of the economy of China is attracting increased interest on the part of American in

The U.S. economy grew at an average annual rate of 2.47 percent during the first Clinton administrat

Trade and transport go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And if you control one, y

The European Union is well on its way to a having a single currency by the year 2000, but a uniform

The idea of reorganizing the U.S. international trade bureaucracy is an old one.President Ca

It was interesting to be in London when the alliance between British Telecom and MCI was announced.

NVOCCS ARE VITAL PARTOF MAERSK'S BUSINESSYour article of Nov. 20 regarding transatlantic non