Commentary

As the congressional debate over President Bush's savings and loan bailout plan begins, most experts

THE WORLD'S TRADE NEGOTIATORS are desperate for a victory, any victory, to avert the demise of a wor

THE RIPPLE EFFECT of the Exxon Valdez oil spill will be felt throughout the federal government for m

A week or so ago I tagged along with our Washington trade reporter, Keith Rockwell, while he intervi

Will the Soviet Union be buying grain in the United States? A direct question requires a direct answ

MORE THAN A DECADE after Congress began decontrolling the price of natural gas, the time has come to

THE THRIFT INDUSTRY SCANDALS of the past five years make one thing perfectly clear: bankers are pron

Around the low, round table in his ceremonial office, Cho Soon turns to me and ponders the question

TEXAS DEMOCRAT JIM WRIGHT is the most effective congressional leader in almost three decades. Since

When the subject of Latin American debt comes up, that old scare word, forgiveness, is finally being

BIGGER HIGHWAYS NOT THE ANSWEREdwin Unsworth's Feb. 28 column ("Channel Tunnel in the Dark")

It has been two months since I've left the International Trade Administration at the Commerce Depart

RUBE GOLDBERG WOULD BE PROUD of Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's new scheme to reduce the foreign

Continued improvement in U.S. trade performance will require a major improvement in the manufacturer

A survey released last week of 2,000 business executives says they are spending more of their workin

THE INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICE lies at the center of the storm over the insurance industry's cherishe

President Bush receives West German Social Democratic leader Hans-Jochen Vogel today, and it is more

If anyone doubted the growing importance of women in Japan's burgeoning economy, an examination of t

Risks are rising that the U.S. economy, in the months ahead, will experience a deeper recession than

Is Mikhail Gorbachev politically better off after the recent elections in the Soviet Union than he w

Just a few hours in Geneva is sufficient to appreciate the enormity of the task undertaken by Arthur

WHAT CITIES ARE LIKELY TO SHOW the greatest economic gains in the next five to 10 years? Mid-sized c

GOV. TOM KEAN OF NEW JERSEY is due to decide any day now on a new president for the Delaware River P

SECTION 89 DOES NOT DESERVE JOFC SUPPORTWe find your editorial (March 10) on Section 89 of t

Back in July 1973, I interviewed Henry Kearns, the president and chairman of the U.S. Export Import

THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY'S first test of the new plant closings law that figured in the 1988 trad

AMERICA'S ANTI-DRUG CRUSADE is spinning out of control. The Supreme Court proved that on March 21 wh

At a time when international financial institutions are releasing new money to Brazil and the Brady

THE ARGUMENT OVER RAISING the minimum wage has been reduced to haggling. President Bush wants $4.25

I pull out a length of plastic wrap, rip it on the serrated edge of the box and wrap up the unused p

As a group, American business leaders are second to none in expressing their admiration for the priv

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. It has been years since that adage applied anywhere. The postman doe

SEVENTH AVENUE AS A SYNONYM for the garment industry has become something of an anachronism. More ga

The U.S. Constitution ensures efficient and fair trade by prohibiting statesfrom unduly inte

IT WAS RIGHT OUT OF JAMES BOND: The captain of the containership Seaward Bay, out of San Tomas, Guat

Secretary of State James A. Baker III had part of it right earlier this week in his comments on last

One of the problems with the regulatory and legislative regime in the United States is that too ofte

MRS. THATCHER'S REVOLUTION has turned "old blighty" upside down in more ways than one. Taxes have be

American cities cannot survive as independent city-states. Federalism in America has become a one-wa

OLD-TIME VAUDEVILLIANS, when playing New York, could always get a laugh with the punch line: Change