Commentary

It is not surprising that President Bush spent relatively little time in his State of the Union addr

The popular concern about the solvency of the insurance industry - which reached its peak last summe

"THE VISION THING," that elusive commodity for the Bush administration, showed up this week in the p

GEORGE BUSH'S PLAN for rescuing the economy - an assortment of piecemeal tax cuts and business incen

WHICH COMES FIRST, the European Community's internal effort to reduce farm subsidies or a global agr

World opinion has been calling for some time now for Japan to play a much bigger role in internation

Following is an open letter to Chairman Donald Riegle and the Senate Banking Committee: Fede

ACERBIC SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER Bob Dole touched on an important truth this week as President Bush

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 - known in shorthand as the highway bil

US INTEREST IN HONG KONG IS WELCOMEMary Child's opinion article on the U.S.- Hong Kong polic

NEUTRAL AUSTRIA, whose neighbors to the east are distancing themselves from the legacy of the Cold W

Very few international institutions are as closely associated with their leader as the European Bank

As the West identifies the various challenges facing post-Soviet republics, it should give more atte

IF ALL GOES WELL, Europe's largest companies soon will be free to buy electricity from anywhere in t

After five very frustrating years of negotiations among 108 countries, the head of the world's princ

SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS based on ethnic origin are all the rage. Canada has had such a movement for yea

The 90-day ban President Bush is expected to propose on new federal regulations may touch the transp

WHENEVER A BILL IN CONGRESS has "fair trade" in the title, watch out: Someone usually is pushing pro

LOS ANGELES COUNTY is in danger of awarding a $122 million subway car contract to the second-best bi

Reeling from a still-sour economy and the highest unemployment rates in a decade, American workers m

LOOKING FOR WAYS TO HELP THE ECONOMY, the White House is scrutinizing government regulationsthat cos

SHIPPERS' BELTWAY NUMBERS GAMEMy friends in the shipping community have responded to my stat

Thanks to the extremely rare spectacle of national austerity induced by the private sector, the Unit

Now that it's clear the Bush administration intends to use Israel's request for loan guarantees as l

WHEN AN OIL TANKER runs aground in Alaska or a hurricane devastates South Carolina, the midnight oil

AS IF POLITICAL UPHEAVAL and rising prices are not creating enough turbulence in the former Soviet r

SHIPPERS: MORE THAN A HANDFULAs leaders of three organizations that represent many thousands

What's ahead in what's left of 1992? Will the U.S.-Japanese trade balance change? Will China lose it

IN THE RACE TO BUILD the world's fastest supercomputers, Japan's NEC Corp. says it has edged ahead o

Jobs, or the lack of them, are a central issue in the presidential campaign. Lost in the hoopla, how

A trip to a Guangzhou bookstore, just over the border, provides a glimpse of China's tenuous relatio

In his 1947 Harvard commencement address, Secretary of State George C. Marshall pledged American aid

OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, the Bush administration will have a golden opportunity to climb down from i

What is Germany up to? That question is uppermost in the minds of Germany's partners in the

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico created a powerful locomotive for economic growth last

LAST WEEK'S RULING by an international trade panel - concluding that Germany illegally subsidized a

THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A TRADE WAR. That's why last week's eleventh-hour U.S.-China accord on copyr

One of the challenges facing the new Commonwealth of Independent States is how to balance the centra

In the wake of President Bush's recent Pacific Rim trip, the focus is once again on how best to prom

IRANIANS OWN MORE THAN 1 million VCRs, but Western exporters of videotapes who see the Islamic natio