Commentary

The current trade flap between Japan and America affects much more than the price of a Lexus.

A SWIFT NEW CURRENT is propelling the world's shipping industry. After several years of sharing vess

COURT RULING WON'T AFFECT TRUCKINGAfter having read "Gun Control Case Could Affect Transport

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." So said a long-a

The world's major industrialized nations this week launched two years of negotiations to reduce barr

DOING MORE WITH LESS has become the credo of American business, where cost control is a condition of

The United States is again in the midst of a great debate about the role of government in national l

"There may be good policy in (trade) retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that the

Congress is embarked on a long-overdue effort to make real cuts in government programs and move towa

REPUBLICANS WILL EAGERLY RECOUNT one horror story after another to support their campaign to cut fed

AS EACH DAY PASSES, the Clinton administration's Japan trade strategy looks more cynical. Last week,

The magnificent sight of Windsor Castle towering above the River Thames and surrounding park lands i

Despite consternation about the collapse of the dollar against the deutsche mark and the yen, 1995 s

A WAY OUT OF THE AUTO DISPUTEAutomotive trade talks between the United States and Ja

CARLOS MENEM, resoundingly re-elected last week as president of Argentina, knows what he wants to ac

Latin America and foreign debt are synonymous in the minds of many investors. But Mexico and other c

There's a Chinese trade sleeper in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's bill to reorganize the S

Fifty years ago today, America celebrated National Maritime Day in inland cities such as Kansas City

While congressional debate began this week on plans to balance the federal budget by 2002, the searc

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor wants to slap new tariffs on $5.9 billion worth of Japanese

Argentine President Carlos Menem's triumph in last Sunday's elections is a victory for free market i

AMERICA'S out-of-control legal system has claimed another casualty: Dow Corning, maker of silicone g

It's the "O.J." of international trade. No DNA, but there's WTO and numbers like 301 and 23.

REINVENTING GOVERNMENT, the Clinton administration's campaign to make Washington work better, has a

US SHOULD PRESERVE WORLD BANK FUNDINGYou reported recently that Congress may try to

PEACE, it seems, pays. Northern Ireland's cease-fire, which has been in place for eight months now,

Just as uncertainty shrouds the future of AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, rumors abound in union ci

HAVING FAILED to bully Japan into accepting numerical quotas in automotive trade, the Clinton admini

The murderous explosion in Oklahoma City last month has revived the public clamor for legislation to

We are entering the season for high level international economic strategy. Ministers of the Organiza

Once again, the Clinton administration has marched to the brink of a trade war with Japan. This has

THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB of any Congress is to balance the nation's books and spend the public's money

KEEPING MAJOR ROADS in good repair is one of the few things Democrats and Republicans in Congress ca

Ten years ago American companies and industries were losing global market share. Foreign products we

An air of expectation hangs over France this week as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand prepare

The Clinton administration's decision to sharply escalate the U.S.-Japan auto dispute reflects pre-e

As any politician knows, outright federal subsidies aren't the only way to please business constitue

ELDERLY AMERICANS are the biggest beneficiaries of government programs, receiving more than a third

Even though last week's Russian-American summit in Moscow did little to resolve problems between the

The National Highway System wasn't supposed to be another Interstate Highway System with new ribbons