Commentary

MOVING FORWARD IN REVERSE GEARIn an effort to formulate a more aggressive U.S. trade policy,

IN REACTION TO THREE RECENT oil spills, the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee wants

Many of the foot-tall American flags that someone set out on all the front lawns in our neighborhood

Due to a typographical error, an article by Richard E. Feinberg on this page July 11 misstated the a

A NEW ISSUE has crept onto the agenda for this weekend's economic summit in Paris. For the first tim

During the 1960s, as a student of China, I was to examine the social and psychological origins of ma

NEGOTIATORS FOR the International Longshoremen's Association and their employers probably made the r

The federal budget, virtually dormant as a serious political issue since George Bush took office in

Only a few years ago, it generally was assumed that with most of Japan's tariff and non-tariff trade

It is arguable that the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Reform Act of 1974, passed by the Congr

"Mad, mad, mad!" declaimed the headlines, as France put the last touches on preparations for celebra

PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Speaking idiomatic French is no easy task. But Mikhail Gorbachev's French acce

Angry at the insistence of government officials that they write down Third World debt, bankers are d

THE SUMMIT IN PARIS at the end of this week will concentrate on at least five key issues: *

HOPPER CARS AND THE USDAI read The Journal of Commerce's June 26 article regarding the U.S.

THE LIABILITY CRISIS IS OVER, but somebody forgot to tell Congress. In their eagerness to do somethi

DON'T BE SURPRISED to see some new versions of current legislative proposalsfrom the House M

THE LOSS OF AN ELECTION in the state of Baja California Norte represents a victory of sorts for Mexi

The integration of Western European markets by the end of 1992 presents American companies with an u

The decade of the 1990s could well be one of the most prosperous 10 years of economic growth of the

Our editorial "P* and All That," in the July 6 edition of The Journal of Commerce, inadvertently rev

OIL RIGS IN ANTARCTICA? That environmental nightmare is not just a theoretical possibility.

CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON URANIUM 'DEBT'Your editorial of June 28, "The Uranium Bailout," make

''THE STOCK MARKET WAS IRREGULAR last week," the New York Journal of Commerce reported in its editio

The U.S. Conference of Mayors says it is "a national municipal crisis." A 1988 survey of local gover

The Mexican government has been claiming that the first phase of its economic modernization process

It is the opening game of the 1956 World Series. I am throwing easily in the Brooklyn Dodger bullpen

AS HEAD OF THE Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Alf

MANAGING THE NATION'S MONEY SUPPLY is an art. With a flurry of publicity, Federal Reserve Board Cha

Maybe it's the heat. The Federal Swamp has been trapped in a 90-degree envelope for two weeks. It's

A new kind of international gamesmanship has emerged on the Washington scene and is causing extensiv

The chair behind the desk in the big room on the seventh floor is empty. The gentleman who h

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FUTURES TRADING has been perhaps the biggest single factor in putting the oil m

''1992 is an effort to merge the proudest countries in the world," said a European statesman recentl

With the economy teetering on the brink of recession, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan

A rail trip around the northeast from Buffalo to New York City and through Pennsylvania down to Wash

NO ONE WANTS TO PAY the crushing cost of long-term treatment for AIDS. A novel program in Mi

For reasons that are undetectable, an infantile faith broadly persists in the purity and objectivity

The winds of perestroika and glasnost are blowing throughout the world. Dictatorships of the left an

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION hasn't exactly been burning up the track with its legislative program. Now,