Commentary

Foreign trading firms are starting to look back fondly on the days when all it took to seal a deal i

Lots of dumb ideas surfaced at Bill Clinton's so-called economic summit. Apartfrom its name

Any way one chooses to examine it, the massive trade agreement being produced by the negotiators in

REFORMERS SUFFERED a major setback this week in their fight to make Russia a free-market economy.

YOU CAN'T BLAME LYKES for trying. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has been working for years to fr

There's an easy way to clamp down on medical spending while providing high- quality care for all. Bu

CLOSE TO 36 MILLION AMERICANS, 14.2 percent of the population, live below the poverty line. Boston M

"Oil - The Lifeblood of Modern Civilization. Tankers - The Lifeline of Oil Supply." That is

The Clinton transition team is crafting a package of public investments in infrastructure, education

BILL CLINTON'S televised economic conference in Little Rock has been criticized as a national gabfes

Despite the smooth, photo-opportunity landing where American troops encountered more journalists tha

U.S. exporters pushing for more U.S. foreign aid money to help them win big project awards in Third

BILL CLINTON wants a more ethical government, certainly a worthy goal. But his rigid new ethics rule

GOVERNMENT HAS A UNIQUE TALENT for wasting taxpayers money, but some projects are worth every penny.

It has been exactly a year since Kiichi Miyazawa, Japan's veteran "insider politician," became prime

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S tattered currency system received more bad news Thursday: Norway, which had

Last week in Copenhagen, the Sea and Trade Court of Denmark closed a chapter in the tragedy of the S

AS EACH WEEK PASSES, U.S. business support for a world trade deal wanes. A global agreement to elimi

KEEP RAILROAD RIGHTS OF WAY PRIVATEIn his Dec. 2 opinion article, "European Lesson for US Ra

President-elect Bill Clinton has a unique opportunity to set a new direction for foreign aid in the

Let's take stock. The U.S. economy, though finally out of recession thanks largely to a pick

SOME GIVE AND TAKE on Russia's economic reform program is to be expected, but Prime Minister Yegor G

IN LESS THAN 20 YEARS, the first wave of Baby Boomers will start to retire. Many of that vast army,

Representatives from the major industrialized nations recently met secretly in Bonn to try to stem t

This June, President-elect Bill Clinton will face one of the toughest decisions in international tra

GIVING CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT is the credo of all good businesses, but do McDonald's fast-food lov

Even though the election, and thus the need to bash George Bush, have passed, news organizations con

SHAKEOUTS IN SHIPPING TRADE LANES are unsettling. Ocean carriers that once were mainstays on certain

The underlying cause of the current health care crisis is that the system is not affordable. While a

The business press has had a field day "exposing" the extraordinarily high pay of American CEOs. Jou

SHRINKING MILITARY BUDGETS, a happy sign of the post-Cold War era, have become harbingers of a glumm

Germany's business community has finally woken up to the potentially disastrous commercial impact of

MEXICO'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM, long tainted by corruption, seems headed for a much-needed cleanup.

Located on the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Turkey, an associate member

Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez - now limping through a second term - could profit from Me

Should financial products, such as securities and insurance programs, be patented, and thus protecte

WHO NEEDS THE GATT, ANYWAY?"Why a GATT Deal Is Crucial." "Why, indeed?" I thought once more,

BUT OLD - NAME is surfacing for the post of U.S. trade representative in the Clinton administration:

AS HIS ADMINISTRATION winds to a close, George Bush is tying up loose ends wherever he can. He patch

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY wants to help its struggling neighbors in Eastern Europe - but only up to a p