Commentary

Expect people of Chinese origin to be very aggressive - and successful - in business in 1988. And if

SOVIET LEADER Mikhail Gorbachev's plans for restructuring the Russian economy could lead to serious

AS EVERYONE LEARNED in high school civics class, congressional conference committees take bills appr

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Dec. 31 had a chance to vote on a fundamental issue: Is the truck

As Americans continue to wring their hands over budget and trade deficits, they have neglected anoth

Every generation looks back with nostalgia, even romanticism, to some particular earlier decade, usu

WHEN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS took ill on Oct. 19, London's Economist hastily constructed a barometer t

EVER SINCE WALL STREET'S stock markets collapsed on Oct. 19 and 20, economists have been busy churni

Clearing the Air On S. African MiningFrom this distance, we in the South African mining indu

The dramatic drop of the dollar against other major Western currencies has sparked many pronouncemen

JAPAN HAS HARVESTED much well-deserved criticism for its mercantilist attitude toward trade, its des

This city becomes something of a ghost town between congressional sessions. The lawmakers and most o

IN SECRET MEETINGS over the past year, bank regulators from the leading industrial nations have craf

As every capitalist knows, competition from hungry up-and-comers often putspressure on large

Eight years after Ronald Reagan first proposed a North American free trade area in his presidential

There's a mean, arbitrary, high-handed country out there. Let's call it X. It ignores a find

The U.S. Treasury and the Morgan Bank came galloping through the pass just before the New Year, pin

IN THE WAKE of the well-publicized security breach created through export violations by Japan's Tosh

TAIWAN'S REGULATIONS governing foreign shipping lines have long been a sore point for U.S. ocean car

Pope John Paul II recently completed a 17,000-mile public relations extravaganza across the United S

MacBride Principles Needed in N. IrelandYour London correspondent Edwin Unsworth could hardl

Earlier this year, the press was full of stories about the imminent accession of China to the Gener

The European Community's drive to establish a single unified marketplace for the 12 member states to

THE AUTO INDUSTRY, thank you, has been doing much better than might have been expected. Black Monday

DEEP IN THE 8-INCH STACK of pages comprising the omnibus appropriations bill, one of the two budget

FINDING A SUCCESSOR to Antonio Ortiz Mena, who has resigned effective Feb. 29 as president of the In

Mikhail Gorbachev's three-day summit meeting with President Reagan reconfirmed his position as the S

LIKE GOOD OLD ST. NICK, Congress in its pre-Christmas rush to adjourn jammed all sorts of goodies in

I have some of my own choices for the "man of 1987." Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Time Magazine's s

THE MEXICAN DEBT AGREEMENT negotiated by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in cooperation with the U.S. Trea

As any really sophisticated global traveler knows full well, the world ofrefined tourism continues t

As appropriate for the holiday season, good fellowship was the order of the day in international fin

THE ROCK ISLAND LINE, subject of legend and folk song, is remembered also as perhaps the prime examp

PEOPLE EXPRESS, before it expired, encouraged passengers to carry aboard almost anything as hand lug

A whole crop of myths concerning jobs has grown up in the last few years. One is that the pa

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL POLITICS, as former House speaker Tip O'Neill was fond of noting. Whenever the

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 included among its many provisions the largest capital gains tax rate inc

THE GOVERNMENT'S Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. has come to fill a vital role, guaranteeing retired

Faced with danger, the human body experiences a surge of adrenalin which produces the energy for eff

Until recently, the British government appeared to be having every success with its privatization po