Commentary

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan assured Congress last week that the current recession would

PRESIDENT BUSH THIS WEEK will send Congress a seemingly minor trade proposal that nonetheless could

The collapse of the private banking insurance system in Rhode Island surely signals the death knell

Aircraft financing in the United States today is extremely flexible and sophisticated, in part beca

The United States has shown that it no longer will "pay any price or bear any burden" to defend its

''UNITED WE STAND, divided we fall" should be the slogan of Slavic republics seeking economic prospe

PORT DREDGING NEEDS RATIONAL APPROACHYour editorial "Clearing the Water" (Feb. 4) correctly

IF THE DEVIL IS IN the details, the Department of Energy may have hell to pay once Congress begins

THE CLOUDS SHADOWING the suspended world trade talks began to lift last week when negotiators agreed

AFTER ONLY TWO MONTHS as Federal Maritime Commission chairman, Christopher L. Koch has begun to lea

There's an understandable sense of national pride as we marvel at Patriot missiles in flight or watc

The Mamas and Pappas once sang about California dreaming on a winter's day. These winter days, Calif

FINANCIAL TURMOIL AMONG the world's airlines offers good examples of the right way - and the wrong w

Freight transportation's shrinking share of the national economic pie may be mostly good news.

Perrier, the chic drink of the 1980s, can't get its old market back. It has tried every conceivable

The idea for a new international development bank should set off alarms for U.S. companies bidding f

THE UNITED STATES HAS SPENT the last 20 years searching for an energy policy that makes us less dep

Japanese leaders don't like what they're hearing when they turn on their televisions and radios. It

WHEN GOVERNMENTS TRY to set the price or market share of imports and exports, productivity and growt

Recent information on the nation's economic performance provides mixed signals about the length and

Much of the war materiel used by allied forces in Saudi Arabia has been transported in commercial sh

GOVERNMENT REGULATION HAS ITS PLACE, but the ocean freight brokering business is not one of them.

Next to Saddam Hussein, the "credit crunch" is Washington's favorite scapegoat. Tight-fisted bankers

With Desert Storm's ground campaign approaching, allied forces will soon face weapons acquired by Ir

The latest fashion among Soviet watchers is to bury Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika. But

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between the terms of Saddam Hussein's "cruel hoax" last week and those of th

TUCKED AWAY IN THE Bush administration's new highway spending plan is a novel concept for relieving

IT IS PAINFULLY IRONIC that as Germany struggles to rebuild the old government-controlled economy in

Operation Desert Shield brought to light the consequences of neglecting our merchant marine industry

Chicago economist David Hale wants some credit. From his fecund mind comes this often-quoted, often-

Congress is about to face a dilemma that will determine whether it has any significant voice in two

''This is your local police department. If you wish to report a defective traffic signal, press one.

FACED WITH A SYSTEM of crumbling highways and growing travel demands, Transportation Secretary Samue

While no one in their right mind would suggest that U.S.-Japan relations are in great shape, a good

Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov's accusation Tuesday that Western banks tried to oust Presiden

SHOULD ENVIRONMENTAL safeguards be included in the proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Mexico an

The incentive for Canada to participate in the Mexico-U.S. free trade negotiations has both positiv

U.S. commercial banks are pulling in their horns worldwide. Despite the growing presence of U.S. cor

Every now and then, issues I write about come home and become personalized. My older son, Mi

EUROPEAN HOPES that Yugoslav ethnic groups will patch up their differences before violence threatens