Commentary

The odds were against Texaco from the start. When a Texas jury found the oil giant guilty in

THE INNOVATIVE STOCK SWAP announced by four major corporations last week may not be a unique opportu

The pending approval of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the roughly simultaneous commenceme

More than anyone else, Mexico's new President Carlos Salinas de Gortari knows that the success or fa

EVEN AS ITS OFFICIALS are packing their suitcases and polishing their resumes, the Reagan administra

YOU HAVE A MARITIME INDUSTRY that eats its children is Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley's succin

TWO INTERESTING ITEMS in The New York Times caught our eye the other day. One noted that the savings

I grew up with a group of friends with whom I regularly competed to see who could wrestle better, ru

More than any looming political crisis, the financial markets are likely to provide George Bush with

THE AUDIT VIEWPOINT OF PAYMENT CYCLESAs president of a freight payment service, I carefully

CONVICTED RACKETEER Anthony Provenzano died Monday of a heart attack in a California prison. But the

ISRAEL, WHICH PRIDES ITSELF on being the only democracy in the Middle East, is offering the world a

Holidays are here. The Stock Exchange Christmas tree has once again sprouted on Broad Street. It is

For the Japanese, the prolonged illness of Emperor Hirohito, who has been bedridden with cancer sinc

Former Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's reluctance to convene the Group of 7 seemed inten

With only five Latvian deputies voting against it, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union late last

FEW RESOURCES ARE IN SHORTER SUPPLY than managerial skill. Today, the federal government's Commissio

OCCASIONALLY, PEACE AND GOOD SENSE threaten to break out between the nation's railroads and their la

ANONYMOUS SOURCES NOT ALWAYS RELIABLEI have noticed that your paper often prints material fr

Problem Child Argentina's fractious army has jumped back into the news to remind the world t

President-elect Bush should have reversed the cabinet jobs he picked for CarlaHills and Robe

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV made a stirring speech in New York last week. But as is so often the case with Sov

THE HEADLINES ARE GRIM, but the news from last week's meeting of the world's trade negotiators in Mo

In March 1988, the attorney general of Massachusetts and 18 of his colleaguesfrom other stat

The think tank game is the hottest game around. Hardly a day goes by without an issue paper from som

ECONOMIC ADVISERS COME and economic advisers go, often with little influence on the policies of the

More than ever before, governments and world leaders are caught in a dialectic push pull of converge

It's that time of year again. I've got to sneak up on my car. Like myself, my almost 13-year

Much attention and rhetoric has focused on technology, and its significance for international compet

LONG ISLANDERS ARE finally catching on to an idea that makes economic sense: If they're going to pay

ADMITTEDLY, THE UNITED NATIONS CAN BE an uncomfortable guest. But that does not absolve the United S

REMARKS QUOTED OUT OF CONTEXTRemarks attributed to me in a recent Reporter's Notebook column

As the new year begins, an historic piece of federal economic regulation, Section 408 of the Federal

There are moments when life imitates football. The presidential transition being played out here is

Democracy, of all things, may be getting in the way of the Uruguay Round, a panel of economic expert

Bigger, dumber transactions will surely be done in months or years to come. But for raw greed, hubri

SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV will open a Soviet trade exhibit in New York today to show his count

A PENSION IS NOT A PROMISE to take lightly. A federal district court judge reaffirmed that important

The biggest planned political event of 1989 may well be the summit meeting, now confirmed, between S

IN ONE MORE SIGN of Latin America's discontent with economic stagnation and foreign debt, Venezuelan