Commentary

Global economic and financial conditions improved dramatically during the past year.The emer

ermany's central bank is thinking over a plan to dispatch two birds with one action.A Bundes

Remember those slapstick ''Airplane'' films? Here's a rough script for a sequel: A brand-new, multib

New York Gov. George Pataki should stick to his guns in the bistate feud over the Port Authority of

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in Los Angeles-Long Beach elected new officer

For the past couple months, I've gotten a steady stream of e-mails asking the same question: ''What

There are few, if any, trade lanes that have seen so much extra capacity injected in recent months a

If private forecasters are to be believed, the economic boom in major industrialized countries and i

You've been out of the office for a few days. On your return, do you tell senior colleagues:

The recent article landbridge proposed for Nicaragua (''Landbridge plan attracts skeptics,'' April 2

A suspect in the Love Bug computer-virus case, Onel de Guzman of the Philippines, came out with two

Particularly in an election year, no one should be too surprised that political debates in Congress

When Dennis McGuire, president of UltraStrip Systems in Stuart, Fla., first talked about developing

Don't look now, but there are signs those old-fashioned steamship lines are getting serious about ne

ey Republican leaders in the House of Representatives this week underlined a fact that was already e

aybe he's just a devotee of the late Ian Fleming's James Bond spy novels or the movies that were bas

The deep-fry vats are always busy at the McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken counters here in Toky

You have to give Larry Ellison credit - this guy is a true believer.Ellison, the chairman, a

The 17th annual International Intermodal Expo took place last month in Atlanta. Some may have consid

es, times change, and so does the value of money. But the figures are jarring nonetheless.A

he next crisis in the financial sector will likely show up first in the payments system.Miss

E-mail is wonderful for columnists. Readers who wouldn't take the time to send a letter don't hesita

new twist on an old product - personalized postage stamps - has generated a deluge of inquiries at C

hat's in a name? That question is about to take on major importance in the next big trans-Atlantic t

I knew it - someone out there loves me! Or so I thought, looking at my e-mail last week. Imagine my

A free trip to watch pit crews at an auto racetrack in Charlotte, N.C., sounded like a great junket

Once the arcane territory of lawyers and trade negotiators, the notion of intellectual-property righ

DETROIT NEWS:Time Warner Inc. angered millions of viewers by yanking ABC from its cable line

In the pantheon of finance, few gods rank higher than Alan Greenspan. Worshipped by Americans from W

he House of Representatives' solid endorsement of the African and Caribbean trade package last week

Europe's insurance sector shows every sign of leading the way toward the globalized industry of the

One of the hidden problems of globalization is learning some language skills before you go negotiate

he ball in Northern Ireland's tortured political game has been tossed back to the Protestant side wi

The Irish Republic is, according to a recent survey, the world's 15th-least-corrupt country. Such a

Do you ever get the impression we're heading for an abrupt jolt? Another of those ''come down to ear

he Love Bug, the computer virus that raced its destructive way around the globe last week, is one mo

Apparently working on the theorem that it's almost never too late for a forecast, the Commerce Depar

s it enters its second year of operation, is the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 working? How much

Will a Cuban boy's reunion with his father in America ultimately lead to better relations between th

The slight uptick in April consumer prices coupled with a modest increase in the latest employment c