John McCain, for instance, has used his position on the Senate Commerce Committee to wage war on Clear Channel, a company whose radio stations broadcast Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing talking head who has in the past lambasted Mr McCain.

ECONOMIST: Politicians should be kept out of regulation

On the other hand, it could spark an ugly patent war over electronic commerce.

ECONOMIST: It was my idea

Advocates of limited government, it is said, have lost the battle of health care, but won the war of the commerce clause.

FORBES: Closing the Window, Opening the Barn Door

After all, we had Presidents who were lawyers, senators, governors, army generals, secretaries of commerce, even a secretary of war, among other occupations.

FORBES: Is Running A Country Like Running A Company? Should It Matter?

This detonated a global trade war that dried up world commerce and the flows of capital.

FORBES: Capitalism: A True Love Story

The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.

FORBES: Europe's Debt Crisis Is No Failing Of Federalism

National security dynamics have shifted since the Cold War, but seeking peace through strength and fostering commerce abroad should still guide diplomacy.

FORBES: Mitt Should Have Become The Romney Whom Obama Ridiculed

Non-governmental commerce has so far seen nationalistic skirmishes, but nothing close to all-out war.

ECONOMIST: Geopolitics and business

Yet the war on artifice inspired by the forces of sincerity seeped into popular culture and commerce anyway.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity

The seed of today's FORBES GLOBAL was planted at an inauspicious time--in the worst days of a tragic, senseless world war, one that brought to an end the first great era of international commerce.

FORBES: 85 and kicking