Commentary

THE FINGER OF BLAME for soaring health care costs always points to doctors' high malpractice insuran

THE GREAT DEBATE over President Bush's request for an extension of his fast- track trade negotiating

The Department of Defense has been widely praised for its role in mobilizing men and materiel for Op

PROVIDING THE SOVIET UNION WITH CREDITS to buy food, Sen. Bill Bradley said Wednesday, would make th

IT'S NOT ALL THAT OFTEN that industries clamor for federal regulation. But food processors want the

How quickly things change. A mere five years ago, the United States was preoccupied with the grandeu

An information gap exists between the United States and Japan. It is something more profound than ju

The premise of airline deregulation was that competition could be relied on to maintain adequate ser

AFTER MONTHS OF HEATED debate, two congressional committees paved the way Tuesday for thestart of fr

INTERMODAL FLEXIBILITY FOR TRANSPORTATIONYour editorial, "One Step Backward" (May 6) correct

CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP. dominates railroad transportation in the Northeast, a sometimes uncomfortabl

Polish President Lech Walesa frequently voices frustration that the West is slow in welcoming Poland

The idea that the current recession would go away quickly has left sooner than the recession itself.

THE IDEA OF ACCEPTING TURKEY into the European Community has been dismissed as premature and unreali

With gunfire stilled in the Persian Gulf, a tiny fleet of four Japanese wooden-hulled minesweepers a

MAYBE IT'S JUST BLUSTER, but Japanese business leaders say they won't bend to U.S. demands for trade

As the nation's economic recovery takes shape this summer, significant changes in the landscape are

The "doctor glut," one of those perennial non-problems of American society, is in the news again, wi

THAI TEXTILES STORY MISSES THE POINTYour report "Thailand Uses a Loophole to Boost Its Texti

COMPETITION IS INCREASING in almost every industry, even in those traditionally viewed as monopolies

In its haste to inject more pricing competition into the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce

Last Friday marked the 10th year anniversary of French President Francois Mitterrand's rise to power

Business groups hope Congress will take some additional steps this year to help U.S. industry compet

The Gulf War created a new lexicon for describing the geopolitical fallout in the Middle East. Comme

U.S. CONSUMERS COULD SAVE an estimated $20 billion this year, if the House follows the Senate's lead

Forgotten in the uproar over the the proposed U.S.-Canada-Mexico talks for a North American free tra

REP. SAM GIBBONS IS FED UP with foreign governments that subsidize their commercial shipbuilders, an

A FOREIGNER TRYING TO UNDERSTAND the attitudes of the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress towa

Washington lawyers are gearing up for a decade of full employment. The issue is custom-made for them

Logging wars are raging from the Philippines to Minnesota, from British Columbia to Brazil. The fore

The growing debate over the proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade accord is only the beginning. The real

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE is not the first company to transfer its corporate headquarters from the pricy

FACTS SKEWED IN NEW SHIPS DEBATEWe can always count on The Journal of Commerce to find gloom

SOME PEOPLE'S OPINIONS MATTER more than others. If a few consumers believe the economy won't pick up

NOTHING PRESIDENT BUSH CAN SAY will completely satisfy critics of his proposed free trade agreement

An effort to leash the independence of the Federal Reserve Board is gaining ground in Congress. But

After spending parts of several days looking at statistics on testing railroad workers for alcohol a

GOVERNMENT HAS A LEGITIMATE INTEREST in funding high-technology research, which can position U.S. co

The 1990-91 recession should be over by Labor Day. That is the good news. The bad news is that the

Maw and Paw were up here last week from Mugsville to attend the spring meeting of their two favorite