Commentary

DOUBLE BOTTOMS ARE SAFETY ANSWERYour Jan. 9 editorial, "Double Bottom Doubts," presents seve

In October, 17 experts from the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union conv

THE PAINS OF CONGESTION have become a routine part of air travel. Airline delays cost the economy $2

As tempers flare on both sides of the Pacific, the U.S.-Japan trade dispute threatens to get ugly. O

Last year's ethics scandals in the House were watched with a certain disdain in the Senate, a clubby

IT'S BEEN A ROUGH WEEK here at The Journal of Commerce. On Monday, as the near-collapse ofAmerican T

THAT MOST UNPREDICTABLE of senators, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tossed a hand grenade into the Bush ad

REGULATORY PROBLEMS OF RISK RETENTIONYour editorial "Insurance Warning" (Jan. 5) raises some

World trade negotiations now under way in Geneva will conclude this year. The Uruguay Round of the G

On a Washington street corner recently, a polished Marine stood beside a tattered waif whoclutched a

WAS IT A MOMENT OF MADNESS on the part of Amtrak Chairman W. Graham Claytor? Last week, in announcin

Due to technical problems, H. Erich Heinemann's weekly column on the economy does not appear today.

U.S. MEMORIES was supposed to be a model of the future. Private electronics companies in the United

VISITORS ONCE AGAIN MAY STROLL through Tiananmen Square, but not much else appears to havechanged in

The economic disaster faced by hundreds of villages in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria could

In Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America, Dan Quayle is an unknown. Few are aware that he is the vi

THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS DOWN but definitely not out. Two long and painful strikes not only have shown

Benign neglect in Washington and billions in unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch ofItaly's Ba

Is Yugoslavia still a communist country? In its constitutional and institutional aspects, it is, alt

Transport has replaced the weather as the main topic of chit-chat among metropolitan dwellers throug

''MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS in the image area are due to the extreme bad press we saw in the coverage of

IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH to figure out how to cut the federal government's budget deficit without menti

Bit by bit, the government of South Africa is attempting to change the ways it traditionally has rel

TECHNOLOGY KEEPS AMERICA STRONG and making sure that we develop enough of it to keep the United Stat

ADMIRAL CLARIFIES FALCON TRANSACTIONFollowing up on an article ("Bureaucracy Obfuscates Falc

THE U.S. NAVY COULD USE A LITTLE HELP from the private sector when it comes to getting ships safely

So far, the idea of a sustained assistance program for redeveloping Eastern Europe involves mainly p

In recent decades, Japan has become an important source of major technological advances. As the West

PITY POOR KARL MARX. One after another, the governments that ruled Eastern Europe in his name have a

In the space of three weeks, the bravery and skill of 24,000 young Americans and a large portion of

THERE'S A GAME THAT THEY PLAY in the trucking industry. It goes like this: First, a bunch of

The U.S. economy is sliding down the slippery slope of recession. Total employment rosea scant 0.3 p

Tadao Sawaki, a Japanese bank executive, failed to notice two men carrying machine guns approaching

To read the latest edition of "Britain 1990," the government's official guide for foreigners to the

A STRONG BILL TO COVER THE COST OF cleaning up oil spills stands on the verge of congressional passa

A recent meeting between Israeli and American government economists in Washington concluded that in

The longer U.S. trade deficits have persisted, the more trade friction has grown. One ofthe issues c

IN MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, perception often is as important as reality. For that rea

Last week marked the swearing in of a new president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, who was until a

Costa Rica isn't a very big place. If you want to run for public office, you don't do it in a very b