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UNDESIRABLE STABILITY
JOC Team |
EVERYBODY LIKES STABILITY. But the world economy is by nature unstable, constantly responding to unp
NAVAL BARGAIN HUNTING
JOC Team |
COMPETITIVE BIDDING drives down prices. That's true when a homeowner remodels his kitchen, and it's
LETTERS
JOC Team |
The Journal of Commerce welcomes letters to the editor. Letters intended for publication should incl
'TIS THE SEASON FOR TIGHT MONEY
H. ERICH HEINEMANN |
The Federal Reserve System tightened monetary policy another notch in the first half of December, as
THE CRACKED CRYSTAL BALL AWARDS
RICHARD LAWRENCE |
It used to be called the American Society of Seers, but because of the nation's addiction to acronym
CURRENCY POLICY IS TRADE POLICY
SAUL R. SROLE |
As they agonize over exchange rates, the United States and the other industrial nations that form th
NATION OF TOMORROW?
JOC Team |
BRAZIL, AS ITS CITIZENS are fond of saying, is the nation of tomorrow. A more accurate description,
OF ARMS AND MEN
JOC Team |
WITH BARELY A YEAR remaining in Ronald Reagan's term of office, much of the administration is alread
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
JOC Team |
Two Flaws in Plan<br><br> For Reducing DeficitWhile William Dannemeyer presents some interesting fac
COMMODITIES AND MONETARY POLICY
WAYNE D. ANGELL |
The ultimate goal of the Federal Reserve must be to stabilize the general price level. The success o
IN WEST GERMANY, IT'S NO SALE
ERICH E. TOLL |
On Jan. 1, 1988, West Germany will implement long overdue changes in its Ladenschlussgesetz, the law
SUBSIDIZING PUBLIC POWER
JOC Team |
NEW YORK'S LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO., financially troubled due both to its own mistakes in building t
A DELICATE DANCE
JOC Team |
NEGOTIATORS HAVE DOTTED the i's and crossed the t's on the free trade agreement between the United S
THE BATTLE OF THE HEMISPHERES
STANFORD ERICKSON |
Have you ever noticed how you usually can irritate or at least frustrate people who naturally talk i
DON'T STABILIZE THE DOLLAR YET
ROBERT SOLOMON |
Now that the budget negotiations have been concluded, a number of voices can be heard in the United
WASHINGTON REPORT CUSTOMS TARGETS 'PORT SHOPPING'
WASHINGTON BUREAU |
THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE is considering a new try at reducing port shopping - importers and shippers
PYRRHIC VICTORY IN S. KOREA?
JOC Team |
SOUTH KOREA'S military government has won a victory, but it might prove a pyrrhic victory. The overw
REGULATION 861.8
JOC Team |
MONEY WASN'T THE ONLY THING LOST in the stock market crash. With it, discretion went out the door on
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
JOC Team |
Import Restraints<br><br> Still Needed on SteelOnce again, The Journal of Commerce has sprung into p
DEREGULATION'S FIRST DECADE
PAUL STEPHEN DEMPSEY |
Nearly a decade has elapsed since our government launched the grand experiment in deregulation. We c
PAGES DULLER THAN WHALEBONE
ALBERT L. KRAUS |
My first job in financial journalism, assisting one of the great financial columnists of his time, e
CAMPAIGN STRATEGY
JOC Team |
BORED WITH LIFE and desirous of more public attention than is readily available to unemployed former
NO WAY TO GET OFF THE TRAIN
TOM CONNORS |
It's the week after the summit, a sort of euphoria plus seven days.<br><br> The stars and stripes an
ERRATIC IDEAS ON BENEFIT PLANS
JAMES A. CURTIS |
In recent months the problem of financing post-retirement health care for Americans has become the m
REPLACING CARGO PREFERENCE
STAN SMITH |
Exports are the lifeblood of the U.S. agricultural sector. Currently, about one-third of U.S. produc
BIG TRUCKS, SMALL ROADS
JOC Team |
MOTORISTS ACCEPT the economic necessity of big trucks traveling interstate highways, but a fresh set
CONGRATULATIONS, NEVADA!
JOC Team |
AND THE WINNER is . . . Nevada! Impressed by the Sagebrush State's broad stretches of desert, its sm
A GROWING TASTE FOR WINERIES
A.E. CULLISON |
Anyone who suggested even a year ago that Japan might soon become a major importer of bottled foreig
IS THE FED PUSHING A RECESSION?
H. ERICH HEINEMANN |
The chairman of the board (Gorbachev, that is, not Sinatra) came to Washington last week. As expecte
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
JOC Team |
IF ECONOMIC FORECASTING can be characterized as gazing into a crystal ball, the current dilemma for
HIDDEN RULES OF PROTECTIONISM
N. DAVID PALMETER |
Everything has to come from someplace - and, according to the Customs laws of the United States, eve
A BRAKE FOR SAFETY
JOC Team |
ONE LOOK IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR on a rainy day is enough to convince most Americans that tractor-tr
ASOCIAL VISIT
JOC Team |
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV sure made a hit on his visit to Washington last week - pressing the flesh on Conne
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
JOC Team |
Clearing the Air<br><br> On Oil Export PlanIn your editorial, "Why Limit Oil Exports?" (Nov. 16), yo
THE SOVIETS' EUROPEAN OFFENSIVE
BRUCE BARNARD |
The Soviet Union is involved in a two-pronged offensive. While Moscow woos Washington in hopes of fu
GOLD BONDS TO CURE THE DEFICIT
WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER |
It seems as though federal budget deficits, like some fiscal Methuselah, have been around for a mill
TARIFF MINE FIELD
JOC Team |
IMPORT PREFERENCES for developing countries are a good idea gone wrong.<br><br> The original concept
LICKED BY THE STAMP LOBBY
JOC Team |
EVERY TIME THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE tries to economize, it runs into trouble: No one wants his local
TIGER, TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT
STANFORD ERICKSON |
As I sat with our Washington transportation reporters around the the dark mahogany table in the spac
WATCH THE MISERY INDEX FOR '88
EMERY TRAHAN |
During the 1970s it was fashionable for economists to construct econometric models of the electoral
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