Commentary

Ah, to be young again and be unburdened with the memories of history! This thought is inspired by a

CONTRARY TO A widespread impression, the U.S. trade balance in real or volume terms, which discount

WATCH OUT, PILOTS! The Wild West is coming to the airways. That's the likely result if an id

Du Pont Is a 'Dog,' Not 'Pig,' in ChinaI really enjoyed your article about the Chinese Drago

Looking at the zealous pro-glasnost Soviet press in the early, hopeful days of 1988 (We are now just

''The ultimate goal of the Federal Reserve must be to stabilize the general price level." This openi

OFFICIALLY, EUROPE IS moving closer together by the day. Within five years, the remaining barriers

A surprising number of presidential aspirants to this office have indicated that they might endorse

I was one of nearly 56,000 people out at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium here last Sunday to watch a major

EVERYBODY'S ROOTING for exports. With a favorable exchange rate against Japanese and European curren

SHIPPING COMPANIES and truckers have a real problem in the handling of overweight intermodal contain

The economic relationship between the United States and Japan is important to the Association of Sou

Paraphrasing the U.S. cliche of a French maxim, the more visitors change, the more they stay the sam

Nicholas F. Brady, erstwhile conservative Republican Senator from New Jersey, tossed President Reaga

U.S. commercial banks, stumbling under the weight of Third World loans gone sour, may have found a w

TRYING TO REGULATE the world financial market is akin to pinching a balloon: The air simply goes som

THE JURY IS STILL OUT on whether the current efforts of Central America's presidents will bring peac

The warmth with which Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev greeted Margaret Thatcher when he stopped in L

The Rocky Road Of Rail MergersYour editorial "No Rock Island II" (Dec. 30) brings back a flo

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas established a committee late last month to help the district ba

THE RAPID GROWTH of air travel has put a strain on the capacity of the entire air transportation sys

OUT IN THE FARM BELT, despair is turning to optimism. Rumor has it that the farm crisis may be over.

THE POLITICAL DEBATE over defense policy has long been among the most sterile in Washington. What de

The major steel producers are seeking an extension of the voluntary quotas on steel imports, which a

Foreign Sales Corp. Idea Needs SellingI am writing to comment on an article related to share

If the year gone by proved anything to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was that taking bo

TAIWANESE PRESIDENT Chiang Ching-kuo, who died Wednesday at the age of 77, proved to be an unexpecte

The last week or so may have been the Democratic candidates' best in the 1988 presidential campaign

IF RIP VAN WINKLE were to awaken in 1988, he'd hardly recognize the railroad industry. Rail's once-s

Twenty years ago an enterprising French magazine editor wrote a best selling book about internationa

Your Dec. 23 editorial addresses an issue of grave concern to the Shipbuilders Council of America, t

A NASTY DOGFIGHT is about to begin over what may be the most complex trade dispute of the decade. Th

Too much is being made of the federal budget deficit. It's not that the deficit is desirable

Well, we've done it. Despite all our good intentions, we have foolishly tiptoed into 1988. Not only

For the past 30 years U.S. and other foreign governments have pressed the Japanese to fully open the

The U.S. trade deficit has come to be viewed as the problem that will not go away. In 1986 the defic

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER crashing into the Antarctic ice cap, a C-130 Hercules cargo plane has taken to

ITS UNIQUE PLACE in the international economy has allowed the United States to move almost painlessl

Britain is a land of opportunity for fast-food restaurants, television suppliers, wine and coffee pr

Pope-Gorbachev Comparison BlastedAs a Roman Catholic, I feel compelled to ask that you publi