Commentary

SINCE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, motorists renewing auto insurance policies in New Jersey have discovere

BIGGER ISSUES AT STAKE IN THAI TRADE CASEYour article (JofC, Feb. 2) reviewing the likely im

More than a year ago, the insurance industry got the best advice it ever ignored. It has been paying

WHISTLE BLOWERS HAVEN'T ALWAYS been appreciated. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, says rank-and-file fed

Two months ago, President Reagan left Washington on a wave of good feeling. Hardly anyone had the he

After almost 11 years of struggling operations, the world's leading airlines remain highly critical

THINGS GET ROUGH at times in the Chicago commodity pits, but until we read about Kevin Roche and Joe

WALK DOWN ANY BLOCK in the United States 50 years ago and one house in three or four was likely to h

Financing health care and the other needs of tomorrow's retirees is too big a task for government al

The Sicilian government and officials from the island's wine industry recently invited foreign journ

While accounting techniques can turn deficits into surpluses and theories canobscure casualt

A PROGRESSIVE TAX, we all know, is one that weighs most heavily on the rich. A regressive tax is on

IRS TELEPHONE "ASSISTERS" got the answer to taxpayer questions wrong 30.8 percent of the time, the a

THE CHAIRMAN of the Senate Commerce Committee's Merchant Marine Subcommittee promises a fight on tha

I had to fly here last week to take the stand in a courtroom and testify about something that happen

Americans and Europeans are anxiously awaiting the arrival of 1992. That date will mark the 500th an

WHEN THE TIME CAME that grandma could no longer function in the community, Eskimos, it is said, woul

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION has discovered a new way to bring down the trade deficit: banning foreign-ma

CANADA HAS LONG COMPLAINED that the acid rain plaguing its rivers, lakes and forests originates in t

PANEL'S PROBLEMS EXISTED FROM STARTShannon J. Wall's letter (March 9) bemoans the failure of

CERTAIN THINGS JUST AREN'T SAID in polite company. But in a change that may point to a major shift i

The Israeli government ushered in its Emergency Stabilization Plan in July 1985, which has brought i

When Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady proposed on March 10 a shift in the Third World debt policy o

NO ONE, NOT EVEN FEDERAL PROSECUTORS, have a broom big enough to sweep clean decades of Teamsters un

WHAT IS IMMORTALITY? In years to come, it well may be a computerized program capturing your expertis

It's a metaphorical boundary, a convenient way of dividing the scheme of things into "we" and "they,

No country seems to have fallen as low as Peru. When 36-year old Alan Garcia was inaugurated

A world economic depression is knocking at our door. A sure sign of a speculative bubble wai

Quietly, the Bush administration is moving to carry out its mandate under the 1988 trade act to clar

The Shadow Open Market Committee, a group of economists who regularly comment on policy issues confr

THE EASTERN AIRLINES STRIKE is giving airline deregulation a bad name. Carl Rowan, the syndicated Wa

WHAT'S THE LATEST THING in health insurance? Protection for household pets, dogs and cats, specifica

The growth of "mega-hubs" in the airline industry and the resulting reduction in airline competition

STILL CONFUSED ABOUT the new federal tax law? Don't ask the experts. Fifty professionals who adverti

BILL WOULD DAMAGE US-FLAG SHIPPINGI read with great interest the article on March 6 ("Rebuil

THE FINE PRINT STILL HASN'T BEEN SEEN. We know nothing, for instance, about how the new Brady Plan f

During the 1990s we are going to decide how free trade will be and how much of the trade we are goin

West Germany is not always easy to understand; its people are sometimes about as open as a welded cl

THE BANKRUPTCY FILING of Eastern Airlines need have no effect on competition in the airline industry

IF YOU NEED TO MOVE FREIGHT from Buffalo to Toronto, your regular truck line can probably do the job