Commentary

CHINA'S OLD MEN are worried. Despite the explosive growth of private companies in China in t

Change always begins with individuals. But business leaders need strategic allies, especially those

SOME CREATIVE THINKING seems to be at work in fashioning a Clinton administration aid package for be

In normal times, a first budget is the checkered flag of a new administration. It starts the engines

Last October, 50-year-old Richard France went to the emergency room of a Boston area community hospi

NOW THAT SHE'S FINALLY ON THE JOB, new Attorney General Janet Reno should deep-six a loopy antitrust

THE U.S.-JAPANESE computer chip agreement is coming down to the wire. Under the pact, Japan was supp

Whatever happened to the Clinton administration? Weren't we led to expect a new, hard-headed

For roughly 20 years, following the sudden jump in world oil prices in 1973, the central policy thru

A BAD DEAL FOR US WHEAT GROWERSThe recent outcome of the durum wheat dispute settlement pane

On Feb. 1, the Japanese subsidiary of Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak Co. let out the bad news.

The uptick in prices last month, while modest, was fair warning to investors that the genie of infla

Americans are being asked to share equitably and responsibly in reducing the soaring federal deficit

WESTERN GOVERNMENTS are desperately searching for a way to help Russian President Boris Yeltsin stay

IN CASE ANYONE MISSED IT, the Clinton administration made more than just a transportation decision w

BY APPROVING the first phase of British Airways' investment in struggling USAir, the Clinton adminis

Sometimes seemingly minor incidents can illuminate larger truths. Such is likely to be the c

Will Eastern Europe be forgotten as the West moves to prop up besieged Russian President Boris Yelts

A GOOD CASE CAN BE MADE for the Clinton administration's go-slow approach to the world trade talks i

The glaring disparity in environmental quality between the United States and Mexico could be the Ach

Due to a typographical error, Chrysler Corp.'s unfunded pension liability was stated incorrectly in

President Clinton pledged in his campaign to increase federal infrastructure spending by $20 billion

Business people worried about the Clinton administration should be especially alarmed by theappointm

JACK BROOKS still doesn't get it. For some time now, the Texas Democrat who chairs the HouseJudiciar

REMEMBER THE PEACE DIVIDEND? In the uproar over military base closures, the basic idea - saving bill

House maritime leaders are working on a comprehensive legislative framework to help the U.S.shipbuil

Carla Hills proclaimed the North American free-trade agreement a job gainer for American workers, ba

The Clinton economic program, it seems, is evolving. Just when you think you have it pinned down, it

Sens. John Danforth and Ernest Hollings are recommending a value-added consumption tax as analternat

President Clinton recently outlined a trade policy that seems strikingly similar to that pursued by

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS have greased the skids for a budget plan that follows Bill Clinton's script:

Let's go micro. The economic plan President Clinton presented in his State of the Union addr

THE IDEA OF FREE MARKETS is elegantly simple. Millions of independent decision-makers prompt sellers

What a difference a year makes. Last winter, the media was filled with stories of the dizzying decli

KEEP THE LIGHT-WATER REACTOR PROGRAMAlthough the budget deficit will surely require scaling

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S best laid plans for ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on economic and politic

CONGRESS HAS SEIZED the initiative on deficit cutting from Bill Clinton. On Monday, House and Senate

Mr. Secretary, on Tuesday I explained that you had been listening to the maritime lobby, not the mar

Those of us who enjoy a traditional English ale are heartened that there is at least one British ind

A powerful surge in the number of non-farm payroll jobs in February, coupled with an equally strong