Commentary

My good friend Pasquale the lobbyist came into the bar, a vacant, desperate look on his mug. He sham

NAFTA IS A LOSER FOR THE USErnest Preeg's article "What If Congress Defeats Nafta?" (Opinion

As the lost decade of the 1980s came to a close, official Washington became optimistic about Latin A

U.S.-Russian trade is jumping. Exports to Russia in first-half 1992 were up more than 50 percent to

FIGHTING INFLATION is a central bank's principal long-term goal. Since a bank free of political medd

Walter F. Mondale, the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, promises to bring a decidedly different style t

PROMOTING COMPETITION within European industries isn't easy, especially with so many state-owned com

Only twice in the last 20 years has the president of the United States chosen not to address the ann

The Federal Reserve System pumped almost $2 billion in fresh reserves into the nation's banking syst

FRANK LORENZO will get his day in court after all. Mr. Lorenzo, who hopes to start a new air

Imagine you're a member of Congress with $10 billion to spend on the environmental topic of your cho

WHO'S IN THE US-FLAG LOBBYI read with mixed amusement and apprehension your article on the n

Just when you thought it was safe to put the notions of monetary union and the social chapter behind

EAST ASIA's economic boom has been nothing short of miraculous. From impoverished origins,the region

THE DECLINE of Western civilization continues apace. We now hear that famously style-conscious Paris

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION is an anachronism. Thirteen years after Congress opened trucking

Last week, President Clinton unveiled "Regulatory Planning and Review," his much-anticipated overhau

Maybe there really is a tide in the affairs of men. Shakespeare only meant to say that oppor

President Clinton recently renewed the American embargo of Vietnam for another year - while permitti

Russia specialist Eugene Huskey is associate professor of political science at Stetson University in

BORIS YELTSIN'S victory over hard-line lawmakers creates a new opportunity to push ahead with econom

IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET DEBATE, advocates of deep spending cuts squared off against proponents of high

U.S. unfair trade law is an ass. The law bashes consumers and exporters, imposing on markets the evi

OPEN REGISTRY: JUST THE FACSMarc Townsend's emotional attack on Sen. Charles Grassle

MALCOLM BALDRIGE, the late Republican secretary of Commerce, was once asked the difference between a

Local governments in Japan, following a 1991 change in the law, are charged with collecting and sort

According to House Speaker Tom Foley, the decisive vote on the North American free-trade agreement s

Continuing high U.S. trade deficits following six years of dollar devaluation makes this much clear:

PRIVATIZATION of China's state-owned companies has gone badly awry, according to official publicatio

Virtually everyone living in southeast England has an M25 horror story. The 120-mile-long mo

MOST AMERICANS who lose their jobs find new ones quickly. Some don't, eitherbecause they hop

BORIS YELTSIN restored order in Moscow Monday, but his reputation as a democrat may never fully be r

Considering California's economic performance over the last four years, it is not surprising to see

GORE REPORT MISSED KEY POINTSPresident Clinton and Vice President Gore sponsored the

It is a fairy tale business opportunity. You now can bypass high-cost Tokyo and sell in nearly every

THERE'S A FUNNY AROMA about the claims of California growers that garlic imported from China is tain

President Clinton today will deliver a policy address to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in San Franci

The lifestyle and income difference between members of Congress and theaverage American has

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES won't save America's shipyards. Still, the Clinton administration thinks it's w

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are at war with themselves over the North American free- trade agreement. As the S