Commentary

It's the season when talk about taxes is most timely and least welcome. The April 16 deadlin

In Washington, the trade debates revolve around protecting "American" business against surging impor

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY Clayton Yeutter isn't known as a gambler. But his department's proposal to rev

A HANDFUL OF INSIDER traders has gone to jail, but run-of-the-mill violators of the securities laws

Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, had a simple message for Congress Tuesday: Whilethe U.S. e

JAPANESE TRADE NEGOTIATORS are fond of repeating that domestic political constraints make it hard to

Early on it was supposed to be a lower house election that would end 34 years of rule by Japan's bus

The closest I ever came to military service was three years of high school Reserve Officers' Trainin

THEY'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER TIGHT budget year in Washington. But some of the fiscal year 1991 budgets

QUAKE COVERAGE COST COULD ROCK ECONOMYYour wire service story, "Industry Calls for Federal Q

The plight of the Delaware & Hudson Railway comes before Congress and a bankruptcy court as the resu

West Germany's leadership finally has awakened to the reality that East German Prime Minister Hans M

NEED SOME EXTRA ENERGY? Just eat a bowl of Kellogg's Rice Krispies, fortified with extra "energy-rel

Almost a year after Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady launched the plan that bears his name, and whi

Consolidating the ongoing Mexican economic reform is in the forefront of President Carlos Salinas de

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel Skinner seems to like nothing better than a good study. But after ni

SHOREHAM PLANT SHOULD BE USEDThe article "Electric Power Demand Increases in Northeast" (Dec

IS CALIFORNIA STARTING another tax trend? The Alcohol Tax Initiative Committee is gathering signatur

Back when the American League had only eight teams and the New York Yankees seemed to be champion ev

Cocom, the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, was formed in 1949 to prevent t

INSURERS NOT HEADED FOR INSOLVENCY CRISISI strongly dispute the assertion that deficiencies

DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT INC., the investment house that created the junk bond as a form of corporate

EVEN AS DREXEL was offering deals too good to be true on Wall Street, a similar activity was under w

Hardly anyone noticed, but President Bush called for a radical transformation of American society i

NELSON MANDELA, released Sunday after nearly three decades as one of the world's best-known politica

THE MOMENTUM TOWARD ONE GERMANY well may be unstoppable. But West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's pr

Officials from the United States and the 16 other nations that comprise Cocom - the Coordinating Com

The success of an undertaking as ambitious as the 1992 project to create a single European market is

Speaking to the Guild of Business Travel Agents here late last month, Cecil Parkinson, Britain's tra

Americans have rather badly misgauged the meaning of events in Eastern Europe. What has been greeted

THAT STYLISH ITALIAN SUIT, as many an American traveler has learned, probably costs more in Milan th

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF wetlands has been known for decades, but it was only last November

DOUBLE BOTTOMS CAN BE HAZARDOUSThe Journal of Commerce's editorial of Jan. 9 ("Double Bottom

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is demonstrating renewed interest in rooting out corruption in the Internati

THE COLD WAR THAW has yet to make it to East Asia. While the two Germanys are dismantling their bor

By far the least developed element on the way to an economic and monetary union is the institutional

What can shippers, truckers and railroads expect from Edward J. Philbin, the new Interstate Commerce

''The primary economic goal of my administration," President Bush told the nation in his annual eco

TRANSPORTATION POLICY ISN'T A WASTE OF TIMEYour Feb. 1 editorial, "Wasting Time," which was

AT THE OUTSET OF 1989, The Journal of Commerce laid out 12 of the major issues we expected our reade