Commentary

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed a major regulatory change to curtail sharply the l

A scandal soon may break on these pages. According to the Washington rumor mill, influential members

WHICH SHOULD COME FIRST, democracy or economic aid? For East European countries, foreign aid and inv

Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Edward J. Philbin gave Independence Day revelers one less re

CONGRESS STILL CAN'T AGREE on a way to fix the Customs user fee. The current congressional standoff

When President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev concluded their recent summit meeting, th

Politics has ruined America's urban schools. This is no secret for anyone who has followed t

THE LESSONS OF THE savings and loan industry's costly collapse have been slow to sink in in Congress

It's easy to see why America has lost its supremacy in high technology after reading Jean-Claude Der

WHEN IT COMES TO POLLUTING, farmers have had a free ride. Federal laws and regulations do almost no

THERE'S NO SHORTAGE of burning business on Congress's plate. Oil spill legislation is stuck in confe

If Secretary of State James Baker were wise and not merely smart, he would have delayed his departur

REMEMBER WHEN, ALMOST TWO years ago, Japan begged the United States not to force it to accept rice i

"In order to negotiate, you have to be free," says Felix G. Rohatyn. The Wall Street investm

The Finns have a word for the deteriorating economic situation in the Soviet Union: catastroika. For

Melvyn Copen is encouraged. He may even be vindicated. Mr. Copen is rector of Instituto Cent

THE COFFEE CARTEL crashed. The tin agreement exploded. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Count

In the age of supersonic aircraft, hovercraft, supertankers and high-speedtrains, there are

LEST THERE BE ANY DOUBT, Romania's 5-month-old government has clarified the nature of its rule. Dict

In a rear-guard action to prop up short-term interest rates, the Federal Reserve system drained a su

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has been so eager to praise the successes of airline deregulation that it has

Years ago, when ships were owned by proud individuals with strong characters, owners would name thei

In this ancient capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, with its low, slightly oriental architect

Have you heard the one about Greek shipowners buying back the ships that they sold to Norwegian owne

LIFE INSURANCE is a rather ironic euphemism. After all, only the survivors of the insured can colle

Today, we certainly are not exaggerating if we predict that the 1990s will become the "decade of Eur

What's my hobby? Shoplifting. Wait. I don't indulge in larceny, or what the misguided refer to as th

COMMERCE SECRETARY Robert Mosbacher's statement last week before the House Republican task force on

ONCE AGAIN THE UNITED STATES is giving the Caribbean nations the back of its hand. It's bad

FORWARDERS AREN'T INDISPENSABLEThe basic premise of Tony Seideman's article, "High-Tech Take

WITH THE DECISION THURSDAY to hold off on any trade sanctions against India, the Bush administration

The Cold War may indeed be over, as Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev warmly avowed, but some frigi

Nelson Mandela will be arriving here next week in the nick of time. His burden in South Afri

THEY ALL LAUGHED AT ERIE CANAL, TOOThe opinion of Marc Levinson, editorial director of The J

THE "UNFAIRNESS" LOBBY is at work in Washington once more. With the claim that other nations are usi

When Mexico's president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was here last October, his reshaping of the Mexi

What good news that Professor Paul Krugman, who once served Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advi

DEREGULATION IS A GOOD THING, but it seems to have become sacrosanct of late, sometimes to the detri

NOTHING IS ON PAPER YET, but the presidents of the United States and Mexico earlier this week announ

Apparently we will hear no more talk of Donald Trump for president. There was a time, before