Commentary

Are We Subsidizing The Wrong Ships?Your newspaper has been replete with reports about the de

THE U.S. SENATE has finally said No! to drugs. By a margin of 63 to 27, senators voted Thursday to s

The Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States contains no provisions on transportati

As my guide from the Irish Development Agency drove me through the pleasant green suburbs of Cork, m

From 1854 to the end of World War II, only two peacetime expansions of the U.S. economy lasted three

Speaker of the House of Representatives James Wright surprised me. I asked him what was wrong with t

HERE'S AN IDEA: Let's tax well-run businesses to subsidize their mismanaged competitors. The

THIS COUNTRY'S APPROACH to tobacco usage has become as smoky as the industry's products. Cigarette p

RAIL AND TRUCK lobbyists never tire of attacking one another, but this week the American Trucking As

During the past seven years, the Reagan administration has played a persistent drum-beat on the them

THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S sudden eagerness to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbon s carries with it a

Article Misjudged MacBride PrinciplesI read with great interest Mr. John Cushnahan's attack

More than 4,500 people died in heavy truck-related accidents last year, and the number is growing. A

RAILROAD LABOR UNIONS WON a lawsuit last week when a federal appeals court affirmed their right to b

Austerity budgets and structural reforms in Argentina have earned President Raul Alfonsin internatio

AS THE MEMBERS of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund meet this week in Washington, o

The diplomatic accords designed to pave the way for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

On March 8, 1988, the Journal of Commerce printed an op-ed article by Robert C. Waters, a professor

It may be surprising to learn that commercial fishing is the most dangerous industry in the United S

The three major international aid agencies headquartered here, the International Monetary Fund, the

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems determined to scuttle the U.S. economic expansion. Las

IN THE MID 1970s, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio proposed an efficient, secure system to get the crude oi

IN THE MIDST of the increasingly xenophobic reaction to foreign investors who buy into the United St

The head-hunters will soon be on their way to Silicon Valley, hoping to put an end once and for all

Young Drivers Will Keep US TruckingThe national shortage of qualified truck drivers needed t

The chief question in the ocean shipping industry for the 1990s is whether the U.S. goal of a strong

IN THE COURT of public opinion, perception and reality are often one and the same. No one un

A DECISION on awarding an airline route between Seattle and Tokyo offers the Department of Transport

The advent of miniature tape recorders, the kind that are easily concealable on your person, puts ex

THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE is not yet over. But as Congress reconvenes today after its week-long Easter

The formal, conscious and deliberate concealment of information presents inherent dangers to a free

WHITE HOUSE OBJECTIONS to trade bill provisions have focused much more on other items, but the trade

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST PLAN to sell the government's Western oil reserves to private com

When the House of Commons returns next week after the Easter recess, it will begin to face seriously

Clearing the Water On US-Flag VesselsThe March 25 letter of the Transportation Institute's c

FIGHTING INFLATION is part of the job for a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. But it is a

By age 58, Mr. Brown had labored in middle management at a large manufacturing company in the Northe

The widely reported antitrust lawsuit filed by several state attorneys general alleges that insurers

The property/casualty insurance business is collusive and far from competitive. In Invisible Bankers

THE SPEED OF INNOVATION in the financial markets has far outpaced regulators' ability to keep tabs o