Commentary

It may be sheer coincidence, or one more measure of the swirling currents reshaping international po

IF THERE WAS ANY FURTHER QUESTION about the desirability of extending the sweeping quotas holding do

Inertia, bordering on complacency, appears to be the watchword for international economic policy in

I want to buy an airline. I have unlimited resources and a distinguished record of success in other

PANAMANIANS HAVE FINALLY HAD THEIR SAY, and what they said is not congenial to the country's militar

David Mulford, the Treasury Department's top international economic official, told senators somethin

THE MYTH THAT TAXES ARE BAD is one of the most harmful legacies of Ronald Reagan. Federal Reserve Go

The European Community summit in Madrid next month promises to be a field day for copy-hungry report

INVESTMENTS EDITORIAL ON JAPAN CHALLENGEDYour editorial "Breaking the Dam" (April 12) is bas

IN THIS BANNER YEAR for democracy in South America, perhaps no election is more remarkable than Sund

U.S. business interest in Vietnam is rising for several good reasons. The Vietnamese have an

For too long it has been the pattern to characterize U.S. trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern E

As everyone knows, rain does not fall mainly on the plain. Nor does the slush merely flush the under

A NEW JERSEY CONSULTING COMPANY is sponsoring free trips to an amusement park for high school stude

THE RULING WENT AGAINST THEM, but insurers have much to be pleased with in Thursday's California Sup

THE EXIT OF KEY administration trade officials continues and seems to be impeding the formation of k

'REALISTIC' REFORMS IN MARITIME POLICY?After reading "Realistic Maritime Reform" (Editorial,

COMMERCE SECRETARIES LIKE to profile themselves as stalwart defenders of free enterprise. When the f

It is commonly asserted that the combination of "expansionary" fiscal policy and restrictive monetar

THE WRECK OF THE EXXON VALDEZ on March 24 and the resultant fouling of Prince William Sound have gen

If Europe were to be shaped along trade union lines, there would be basic social legislation in the

America is currently losing the war against drugs. According to William Bennet, President Bu

Well on its way to becoming the test country in the so-called Brady Plan for solving the internation

US MARITIME INDUSTRY ITS OWN WORST ENEMYYour excellent editorial, "Realistic Maritime Reform

PRODDED BY AN IMPATIENT CONGRESS, the Bush administration is deciding whether to launch an ill-advis

As Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita took off on a nine-day tour of Southeast Asia last weekend, he le

CAN A COUNTRY BE UNFAIR? By the end of the month, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills and

Tens of thousands of visitors, many from abroad, are swarming through Houston's Astrodome this week

The Federal Reserve System significantly tightened its grip on the economy over the past two months.

SHOULD THERE BE SONG IN THE SUBWAY? That has joined the list of pressing political questions in New

REFINANCING MEXICO'S $105 BILLION foreign debt will not be the last epic task in President Carlos Sa

Perhaps more than any of the other terrible disasters that have afflicted Britain over the past coup

RAIL LABOR MUST KEEP RIGHT TO STRIKEOn April 7, this headline appeared in The Journal of Com

The tankers are too big. The crews are too small.The Coast Guard was too lax.The oil

''The (Soviet) economy is a mess," Mikhail S. Gorbachev said three years ago. ''In 1969 in Stavropol

EXPORT NOW PROGRAM SHOULD BE RENEWEDThe trade statistics are out for the month of February a

ONE VERY ATTRACTIVE ASPECT of the evolving unified European Community market, targeted for 1992, is

LEGISLATION TO COMBAT DRUGS in the railroad industry has again been introduced in both houses of Con

U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Carla Hills will raise a double-barrelled shotgun this month. The

MCCARRAN ACT ALLOWS INSURANCE CHALLENGESI found Harold Skipper's article, ("Parochial Insura