Commentary

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THE RISE IN THE PERSONAL SAVINGS RATE is the most important economic news of 1989. But creation of a

POLITICAL CHANGE IN POLAND has reached a crucial stage. Only a few weeks ago, the progressive Solida

Last month, Romania paid off all of its foreign debt, $11 billion ahead of schedule, making it perha

INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCY will be the topic of a mid-September report from House Energy and Comme

When Gifford Pinchot founded the Forest Service in 1905, he promised Congress that the national fore

With the 1987 adoption of the Single Europe Act, the European Community commenced in earnest the goa

ELECTRIC TRANSPORT WOULD CLEAN THE AIRAmerica is drowning in a sea of automobile exhaust. Ev

YEARS OF FINGER POINTING among ocean carriers, truck lines and shippers on the issue of overweight c

GOVERNMENTS AT ALL LEVELS consistently maintain their right to keep secret information they deem too

The agreement recently reached by Mexico and its commercial creditors has received its share of crit

The recent report supported by the Ford Foundation, "The Uruguay Round and Beyond," has suggested th

HONG KONG ATTRACTS MULTINATIONAL FIRMSIn your July 26 article titled "Cabinet Reshuffle in U

THE MARKETS FOR CRUDE OIL, refined products and natural gas are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

If perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program for restructuring the Soviet economy, is to work, then t

THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOSES MONEY on purpose, selling timber below cost to provide economic suppor

IS THERE NO END TO THE MISCHIEF that government bureaucrats can think up? The latest threate

In the financial sector, the United Stated is losing its global predominance. Part of that is natura

After Mexico, who? Can the Brady plan - Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's proposal to help

President Bush last week signed U.S. taxpayers on to a $300 billion check to bailout corrupt savings

Japan is eagerly promoting new forms of economic organization in the Pacific. But its enthusiasm is

These are heady days for a divided Europe. Lufthansa, the West German airline, has just made its fir

An indicator helpful in determining when a long-term bull market in common stocks is entering its ma

THE "SMALL PACKAGE" air route between the United States and Japan was one of the U.S. Department of

WINSTON CHURCHILL used to say that Americans are the most charitable people on earth. True or not, t

IF THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to get a new financial infusion, it first must define its role

GO ABROAD, YOUNG WOMAN, GO ABROAD: That's the advice from an increasing number of international comp

When you write about business for some 25 years, you cannot help but become a student of leadership.

In American economic history, there appears to be a very repetitive long-term pattern of approximate

THERE ARE A LOT of things wrong about the European Community's proposed ban on the milk-production d

CAPITAL FLIGHT, TRADE FINANCING UNRELATEDOn the first page of the July 5 Journal of Commerce

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT CHAIRMAN MAO? Asked how the world would have been different had Lee Harve

Americans expecting rapid changes in the trade balance because of the dollar's recent gyrations will

A dramatic, far-reaching inter-agency battle has broken out on the Washington scene between the Defe

AIR TRAVELERS KNOW that few bargains are found on lightly traveled routes. It's more than likely tha

During the last several months, there has been unprecedented attention paid to employee stock owners

From the moment my flight from Warsaw touched down in Prague, it was obvious that Czechoslovakia is

RAILROADS HAVE BECOME the latest boutique items in Wall Street's quest for new things to buy and sel

ALMOST MORE PRECIOUS to American teen-agers than life itself is their wheels, their right to roll. I

ON THE DAY A TERRORIST GROUP in Lebanon said it had hanged U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins,