Commentary

Hardly anyone believes that the failure of the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International was

Almost as intriguing as the annual seven-power economic summit is whathappens here every year just b

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is not likely to walk away from his meeting with Western leaders

SO FAR, SO GOOD. That's the best way to describe the government's attempt to modernize the nation's

Has Israel turned the West Bank and Gaza into a captive economic colony? Is an independent Palestini

LAWMAKERS, IT SEEMS, can justify almost anything in the name of national security. The latest legisl

ECONOMIC ANALYSTS IN JAPAN are accustomed to tracking the price of major commodities to divine the f

President Bush, in supporting renewal of most-favored-nation treatment for China, has linked trade t

Monetary union with west Germany has converted east Germans to the ways of the West. But unfortunate

HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE RISING by the day, and the government's payouts for Medicare coverage are no e

Defense sales are often contingent upon special deals with the buyer. In the early 1980s, for exampl

Back in 1914, political instability in what is now Yugoslavia led to global tragedy when a Serbian n

Ocean carriers faced a stacked deck at a House trade subcommittee hearing last week, but they hope f

BEIJING'S REACTION to a House vote to restrict China's preferential trading status, predictably, was

After the euphoria that engulfed the newly unified Germany last year, it was disappointing during a

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S MERE PRESENCE at next week's economic summit in London promises to transform thi

ALL THIS TALK ABOUT politics moving in on the Federal Reserve Board may be a little overblown.

GULF WAR TROOPS RELIED ON US FLEETYour "Publisher's Notebook" column of July 3 is a great ex

The Senate began the process of overhauling the nation's transportation system last month when it ap

REGULATION HAS GONE AWRY in the trucking industry. Rules introduced 50 years ago to protect freight

President Bush's decision to nominate Clarence Thomas, a black federal appeals court judge, to the U

For U.S. companies that followed the American flag to Moscow, bankruptcy or debilitating losses have

We have too much information. It's making us stupid. Did you know, just to take one recent d

IMAGINE IF OUR APPOINTED OFFICIALS actually took the blame for the failures of their departments and

IN DIVORCE CASES, custody battles often become a substitute for unresolved disputes over unhappy rel

In much of the world, anxious politicians worry about the explosive potential of rising domestic une

In the nick of time, the Federal Reserve came riding through the pass to bail the United States out

FOREIGN CREW ISSUE MUST BE DEBATEDIn his July 3rd "Publisher's Notebook," Don Becker put his

BONUSES ARE COMMON in business for executives who run profitable companies. No one, of course, would

JUST AS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY douses one of Yugoslavia's ethnic fires, another erupts elsewhere in

Hypocrisy and suspicion will pervade the atmosphere at a Euro-Japanese summit later this month.<

A commercial success from its opening, the Panama Canal is now considered by many maritime experts t

When the Delaware & Hudson Railway filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988, many rail experts predic

''YANKEE GO HOME" has been the prevalent refrain among Europeans, particularly since the end of the

An increasing number of American politicians, businessmen and academics believe that bilateral press

Good advocates paint glorious pictures. When they intervene for you with the powerful, they add an e

This week begins a crucial test for U.S. negotiators on a critical international steel agreement.

DELIVERING PACKAGES OVERNIGHT in California is getting easier for air express companies. A f

DON'T FALL FOR EMPTY PROMISES TO LABORBacking both a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement and wo

NUCLEAR POWER - and the safety of the plants that produce it - strikes an emotional chord for many