Commentary

Action by the Federal Reserve System to boost short-term interest rates will make a tight monetary p

It's 4:30 in the morning as I emerge from my tent at a mountain pass just below Okuhotaka, Japan's t

HOUSE REPUBLICANS cried "Pork!" during the crime bill debate, but another brand of bacon _the highwa

American industry is making the painful but necessary transition to a more competitive global market

"The final insult" was how one senior British maritime industry official privately summed up his vie

TRUCKERS FIGHT FUEL TAX EVASIONI am writing in regard to your Aug. 11 article, "US Steps Up

SOUTH AFRICA'S democratically elected government is a welcome change after decades of white dominati

THE BIG TELECOMMUNICATIONS BILL moving through the Senate would boost competition for industries onc

The fate of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which regulates the nation's trucking and railroad i

As Congress gets down to the wire on health care reform, most Americans find themselves dismayed at

THE UNITED NATIONS does many things well, but regulating private markets is not one of them.

Every six years Mexico goes through a political upheaval in which a new leader is selected for the n

Pressure is growing in Congress for withholding repayment of some $450 million owed Canada in a long

We've been hearing, with an intensifying drumbeat, how Asia-Pacific is tomorrow's market. Well, not

MEXICO'S HISTORIC ELECTION this Sunday is shaping up as the cleanest in its history. That hardly mea

Unless the Virgin of Guadalupe intervenes to prevent it, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential

YOU CAN TAKE French-speaking Canadians out of Acadia, but . . . This month, for the first ti

Mexico's 47.5 million registered voters go to the polls on Aug. 21 to elect a president, 96 senators

Despite last week's stunning blow to the crime bill, President Clinton is still hammering on Congres

FOR MANY AMERICANS, Latin America is still an economic backwater plagued by widespread poverty, runa

During last year's Nafta debate, the Clinton administration promised that free trade between Mexico

The universal health care plan that Congress is now debating would create an enormous new federal en

IF HARD WORK PAYS, Americans should have a bright future. Americans work longer hours than p

IT'S TAKEN 13 MONTHS, but the United States and Japan finally have reached a partial agreement in th

Last December Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission, issued a white paper on "Gr

Lacking the compass of macroeconomic policy, the Japanese economy drifts in a vicious circle of yen

It is August in Europe. Across the continent shops and restaurants are shuttered. The street

SEAFARERS' HOUSING: A YMCA PROJECTWe appreciate your fine "On the Move" profile of the Rev.

DESPITE THREATS to its crime and health bills, the Clinton administration is steadily movingthe GATT

The GATT world trade agreement now before Congress is a remarkably strong document, the product of e

The halcyon 1950s are alive and well at Japan's spick- and-span gas stations. Any American o

CHALK UP another victory for the bureaucracy. The French government has denied five aging Americans

It is a common belief that U.S. service exports will offset the large and persistent U.S. merchandis

A bill providing new maritime operating subsidies for some U.S.-flag ships is running into more oppo

THE TOWN DUMP isn't what it used to be. Until the early 1980s, most household and businesswaste - pa

Paranoia is patrolling our borders, and U.S. politicians are keeping step. California Gov. P

In the late 1980s, while interviewing a U.S. ambassador in Nicaragua at his office during the bloody

The Journal of Commerce recently printed an opinion article by former ICC Commissioner Gregory Walde

WHERE HAS the Pepsi generation gone? Gone to Starbucks, every one - as Pepsi evidently has discovere

BIG CORPORATE MERGERS are all the rage, and railroads have joined the action. Three important rail d