Commentary

''THERE IS NO POINT in having a market economy," said British Prime Minister John Major at this wee

MORE THAN 500,000 SHIPMENTS of hazardous goods crisscross the country every day. The vast majority a

HAS PRESIDENT BUSH misinterpreted the law? That's what six Democratic senators claim. They are runni

US AIRCRAFT MAKERS ARE 'FAT,' 'LAZY'When I read in your July 8 edition that Federal Express

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has made no secret of his desire for Western investment to bolste

Last week's solar eclipse set me thinking. For those among you kind enough not to reply that

SO FAR, SO GOOD. That's the best way to describe the government's attempt to modernize the nation's

Hardly anyone believes that the failure of the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International was

Almost as intriguing as the annual seven-power economic summit is whathappens here every year just b

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is not likely to walk away from his meeting with Western leaders

President Bush, in supporting renewal of most-favored-nation treatment for China, has linked trade t

Monetary union with west Germany has converted east Germans to the ways of the West. But unfortunate

ECONOMIC ANALYSTS IN JAPAN are accustomed to tracking the price of major commodities to divine the f

LAWMAKERS, IT SEEMS, can justify almost anything in the name of national security. The latest legisl

Has Israel turned the West Bank and Gaza into a captive economic colony? Is an independent Palestini

Ocean carriers faced a stacked deck at a House trade subcommittee hearing last week, but they hope f

Back in 1914, political instability in what is now Yugoslavia led to global tragedy when a Serbian n

Defense sales are often contingent upon special deals with the buyer. In the early 1980s, for exampl

BEIJING'S REACTION to a House vote to restrict China's preferential trading status, predictably, was

HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE RISING by the day, and the government's payouts for Medicare coverage are no e

GULF WAR TROOPS RELIED ON US FLEETYour "Publisher's Notebook" column of July 3 is a great ex

After the euphoria that engulfed the newly unified Germany last year, it was disappointing during a

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S MERE PRESENCE at next week's economic summit in London promises to transform thi

ALL THIS TALK ABOUT politics moving in on the Federal Reserve Board may be a little overblown.

The Senate began the process of overhauling the nation's transportation system last month when it ap

We have too much information. It's making us stupid. Did you know, just to take one recent d

President Bush's decision to nominate Clarence Thomas, a black federal appeals court judge, to the U

REGULATION HAS GONE AWRY in the trucking industry. Rules introduced 50 years ago to protect freight

IMAGINE IF OUR APPOINTED OFFICIALS actually took the blame for the failures of their departments and

For U.S. companies that followed the American flag to Moscow, bankruptcy or debilitating losses have

In much of the world, anxious politicians worry about the explosive potential of rising domestic une

IN DIVORCE CASES, custody battles often become a substitute for unresolved disputes over unhappy rel

BONUSES ARE COMMON in business for executives who run profitable companies. No one, of course, would

FOREIGN CREW ISSUE MUST BE DEBATEDIn his July 3rd "Publisher's Notebook," Don Becker put his

In the nick of time, the Federal Reserve came riding through the pass to bail the United States out

When the Delaware & Hudson Railway filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988, many rail experts predic

Hypocrisy and suspicion will pervade the atmosphere at a Euro-Japanese summit later this month.<

JUST AS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY douses one of Yugoslavia's ethnic fires, another erupts elsewhere in

''YANKEE GO HOME" has been the prevalent refrain among Europeans, particularly since the end of the

A commercial success from its opening, the Panama Canal is now considered by many maritime experts t