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Robert E. Hudec, a professor who broadened the study of laws governing international trade to embrace matters of diplomacy and politics, died on March 12 while vacationing in North Captiva [...]

Depending on the outcome of the war in Iraq, its impact on the economy could range from a recession to a mild stimulant. The early indications for the economy, as [...]

NOW that the war in Iraq has begun, oil prices could go $10 a barrel higher -- or lower -- by this time next month. How can a company that [...]

AFTER a recent report by the Labor Department suggested that the economy was still losing jobs like sand from a sieve, Democrats blasted the Bush administration for failing to shore [...]

For months, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has scrambled, with little success, to keep a lid on oil prices. With war threatening as the cartel's ministers meet in [...]

HERE'S a familiar time line: The Federal Reserve reduces short-term interest rates. A recession begins. The Fed keeps cutting. Short-term rates stay low, and long-term rates eventually begin to tumble. [...]

WHAT do you get when you combine 10 winners of the Nobel in economic science, two former chairwomen of the Clinton administration's Council of Economic Advisers, the president of the [...]

PRICES have been falling in several parts of the economy, leading analysts to warn of the stultifying effects of deflation. Yet in one conspicuous area -- health care co-payments -- [...]

As the centerpiece of his economic plan, President Bush is about to propose that dividends paid to stockholders by corporations should be exempt from federal income taxes. Here are answers [...]

IN the election for the country most likely to drive a global economic recovery, only one candidate is receiving any votes: the United States. It does not matter that the [...]

A new survey of chief financial officers at midsize manufacturing companies found substantial optimism about business prospects in 2003, corroborating a recent spate of positive data on the economy but [...]

VIRTUALLY everywhere, from tiny towns to the world's biggest economies, a balanced budget is like a Good Housekeeping seal of political approval. And yet governments just can't seem to stick [...]

AS the economy struggles to revive itself and layoffs mount, companies have been trying to get more out of their workers. Businesses like Dell Computer have used the downturn as [...]

IN a short memoir of his time at Yale University, James Tobin, the late Nobel-winning economist, separated professors there into two camps: the institutional types and the free agents. The [...]

DOES the Federal Reserve Board know things about the economy that the rest of us don't? When the Fed's path for short-term interest rates switches direction, as some pundits thought [...]

Complaining that market forces alone had not assured the transition to digital television, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 1 today to require television manufacturers to include digital tuners [...]

While senators debated an accounting reform bill today in advance of an expected vote on Monday, Democrats and Republicans eagerly tried to blame each other for years of supposedly lax [...]

A small, secretive group that used television advertisements to attack George W. Bush during his campaign for president has re-emerged to point to links between oil companies with questionable accounting [...]

AFTER a jagged descent lasting two decades, the personal savings rate of Americans may be moving in the other direction. Increased saving will help the economy to grow in the [...]

ENRON gave off flashes of brilliance even as its financial wizardry and creative accounting spun the company out of control. These flashes could merely have been bubbles bursting, or they [...]

Before they oversaw America's biggest corporate collapse, Arthur Andersen, Enron and even Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's former chief executive, opened their wallets for academia. All three have endowed professorships -- [...]

IS Enron's business model still a good one? With fuzzy financing and arcane accounting stripped away, the answer may be yes. Despite Enron's collapse, its goal of merging the best [...]

THE late 1990's was a golden age for stocks -- and for Americans' potential retirement incomes. Assets in private pension funds doubled from 1995 to 1999, to $5 trillion. Workers [...]

As the workers who lost their retirement savings in Enron stock demonstrated, Americans are not always the best investors. And sometimes their companies set up incentives that can make things [...]

Reacting to the destruction of the retirement savings of thousands of employees of the Enron Corporation, President Bush said yesterday that the administration would start looking at ways ''to make [...]

As Argentina struggled to avert complete fiscal collapse with the anticipated issue of a new currency, the fallout in the United States is slowly coming to light. American financial markets [...]

Argentina's fiscal and financial crisis has resulted in a run on its banks, political turmoil, hunger and even death. A default on the public debt or a devaluation of the [...]

One is called Calibrus, one is called Calibra. Which one is the Internet start-up and which is the coupe made by General Motors? These days it's hard to tell. (Calibra [...]

WHETHER you're in the 99 percent, the 47 percent or the 1 percent, inequality in America may threaten your future. Often decried for moral or social reasons, inequality imperils the [...]

It is a busy time in the soccer world. The top teams in Europe and South America are playing multiple tournaments, Major League Soccer is heading for the playoffs, and [...]

WHAT happens when Japan's deeply rooted traditions and its insatiable appetite for new technology collide? The results are on show in a recent wave of hot spring hotels, or onsen […]

AS immigration legislation slowly makes its way through Congress, the debate about illegal immigrants' role in the economy has intensified. To some people, they represent a black-market work force that […]

POLITICIANS from the president on down have lately been saying that the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 were responsible for the quick growth of the economy starting in [...]

FOR most travelers, it is a mythical domain behind a frosted-glass door, but for a fortunate few it can be a peaceful haven before the rigors of a long flight: [...]

THE free trade agreement the United States signed with South Korea last week could be the most important step in the nation's trade policy since the North American Free Trade [...]