Commentary

REAL AIR BAG VICTORY BELONGS TO VICTIMThank you for your May 31 editorial that calls attenti

IT WAS ONLY A SYMBOLIC SHIPLOAD, but the first American-built Hondas to reach the Japanese market ar

THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY was strangely silent last week when Karen Phillips, nominated to fill a vacanc

Top finance ministers and central bankers continue to express confidence in Treasury Secretary James

To take advantage of the future in world trade, you must know where that future is going. If

SELF-PROCLAIMED FREE TRADERS are jubilant at the defeat of the Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988, now dead

Until the proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement surfaced, many Canadians suspected that fights o

Auction quotas are an idea whose time, in the view of many, has come. In the now-defunct Omnibus Tra

WITH SOLOMONIC WISDOM, the governors of New York and Ohio have agreed on an imaginative plan to brea

Soviet Trade Climate Remains Cool to USIt is not surprising that U.S.-Soviet trade and busin

THE FRENCH AND WEST GERMAN governments' decisions to forgive loans to nations in sub-Saharan Africa

The news came during the summit media splash about the new openness or glasnost of Soviet society an

For as long as I have been covering aviation, Eastern Airlines has been an aggressive, expansionist

Whenever U.S.-Soviet political relations begin to warm, officials in Washington develop scenarios fo

THE $1.14 BILLION put out by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. to close down two Californ

A NEW FISHERIES AGREEMENT between the United States and the Soviet Union takes animportant first ste

A consensus is beginning to emerge that debt reduction is the only feasible way to manage Latin Amer

Wall Street, which likes nothing better than to work up a good sweat jumping to conclusions, has fou

Microeconomics is suddenly in vogue. For years, government leaders in search of a stronger,

MANY COMPANIES THAT SHIP by truck are caught in a regulatory no-man's land. Congress partially dereg

FOR SEVEN YEARS, LOW ENERGY PRICES have been a major force in the relatively successful U.S. struggl

The Mexican poet and essayist, Octavio Paz, once said that American policy toward his country was ch

The Swedes sweat about it and the Japanese are nervous over it. European politicians wax eloquently

How McCarran Act Aids Insurance BuyersFor a newspaper that specializes in covering insurance

THE SUPREME COURT last week struck a blow for natural gas deregulation by reversing a bizarre lower

THE DEBATE OVER REFORMING the financial markets has gone precisely nowhere since last October's stoc

STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE FOREVER finding new ways to keep big trucks off some of their interstate highw

The problem with today, Don Welch said with an impish look in his bright blue eyes, is that tomorrow

NOW THAT CONGRESS is finally ready to approve a budget for the 1989 fiscal year, it is clearer than

THE REAGAN administration can't find anyone in Congress to introduce its new Customs user fee bill.<

If the Omnibus Trade Bill becomes law - either by veto override this week or in a stripped-down vers

MORE THAN SIX MONTHS have gone by since panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ruled t

McCarran-Ferguson Enhances CompetitionYour May 25 editorial once again calls for repeal of t

Seaports often face the difficult task of balancing management autonomy with the demands of politici

The furor during the New York primary over Jesse Jackson's relationships with Jews (Jews . . . woul

WITH TAX DEDUCTIONS for consumer debt wiped out by the 1986 tax reform, loans secured by the borrowe

Robin Hood stole gold and silver coins from the rich according to legend. Latter-day Robin Hoods ste

THE GRAY MARKET, ON WHICH GOODS made by U.S. companies abroad are sold without their permission in t

Say what you want about Ronald Reagan's judgment, he picked a good week to be in Moscow and out of W

In 1543, storm-tossed Portuguese mariners went ashore on a Japanese island and traded a few firearms