Commentary

The job of the Federal Reserve is to take away the punch bowl just when the party starts to get good

Right there on the top of online auction pioneer eBay's home page (http:// www.ebay.com), there's a

The leaders of the Group of 7 major industrial countries plus Russia will meet in Cologne, Germany,

By seeking another legislated minimum wage increase, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., demonstrates h

There is a lot of transportation activity in Washington these days. The current administration has d

When Qahraman Niyazmohammedov welcomed an old friend into his home on a sunny afternoon last March h

More people will be working and shopping via the Internet in the 21st century, but fewer car trips t

Environmental protection is a tricky business. It's not only hard to know what to do, it's hard to k

In case anyone missed it, the curtain went up on the hurricane season just over two weeks ago. Arlen

The European Union announced last month that it would not comply with a World Trade Organization rul

The news out of Tokyo over the last few days has splashed the cold water of reality onto the surge o

The United States needs to keep control of its airline industry.Not everyone thinks so, of c

There was the hype? No brass bands! No parades! No blaring advertisements!Microsoft's new Of

Telemedicine has the potential to dramatically expand access to quality health care.An outgr

In December 1997, the Clinton administration signed the Kyoto Protocol, a United Nations treaty comm

Whatever else might be said about him, Steve Forbes, the long-shot Republican presidential contender

''What am I supposed to eat these days? Kangaroo meat? Buffalo burgers? Shark steaks?''The e

CSX and Norfolk Southern are finding out in practice what crooner Neil Sedaka knew back in 1962 when

President Clinton earlier this month announced his decision to extend for another year China's norma

The European Union says it will pick up most of the tab for the economic and humanitarian catastroph

''What it boils down to,'' opined a European Commission official in Brussels, ''is that Americans do

It's always sad to hear of the demise of a company. It's particularly hard to take when it involves

According to a fresh Moscow version of an old anecdote, Russian President Boris Yeltsin comes out of

Pay attention the next time you hear some of the Clinton administration's warm and fuzzy goals for A

Former Maritime Administrator Warren Leback created a bit of a storm in the maritime community by hi

Two things are certain about American Airlines' cavalier treatment of Peruvian President Alberto Fuj

U.S. foreign policy has never been perfect, but seldom has it been as dangerously self-destructive a

Not many things in life are certain, but one of them is that export controls will be tightened as a

The fallout from NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, even as it begins to look successful, is now in

Since Chairman Mao's revolution succeeded in driving China's nationalist government to the island of

If a proposed highway improvement project has passed every environmental test required by the federa

t's tempting to get carried away with optimism over the latest developments in the Balkans. Don't.

New words are slipping into the workplace vocabulary because of a cartoon character and some mouse p

Like Claude Rains in ''Casablanca,'' some transportation-industry people are pronouncing themselves

The International Monetary Fund should sell some of its gold reserves to pay for debt relief for hig

Almost every claim made for the euro when the decision was taken at Maastricht in 1991 to create a s

Herbert Hoover was responsible for the worst economic disaster in the history of the world and Bill

Now, granted, I was straightening up around the apartment at the time. But still, I thought I was sa

From the bitter reality department comes word that Colombia, which supplies an estimated 80 percent

Now that Sea-Land and Maersk have selected their mega-port site for the East Coast, the entire inter