Commentary

AND THE WINNER is . . . Nevada! Impressed by the Sagebrush State's broad stretches of desert, its sm

ONE LOOK IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR on a rainy day is enough to convince most Americans that tractor-tr

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV sure made a hit on his visit to Washington last week - pressing the flesh on Conne

The Soviet Union is involved in a two-pronged offensive. While Moscow woos Washington in hopes of fu

It seems as though federal budget deficits, like some fiscal Methuselah, have been around for a mill

Clearing the Air On Oil Export PlanIn your editorial, "Why Limit Oil Exports?" (Nov. 16), yo

As I sat with our Washington transportation reporters around the the dark mahogany table in the spac

THE RISK that a protectionist trade bill could be a millstone around the neck of the Democratic Part

During the 1970s it was fashionable for economists to construct econometric models of the electoral

EVERY TIME THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE tries to economize, it runs into trouble: No one wants his local

IMPORT PREFERENCES for developing countries are a good idea gone wrong. The original concept

Critics of federal economic regulation of motor carriers recognize that the Interstate Commerce Comm

ATLANTA'S CITY-OWNED golf courses are operated by private businesses these days. Its tennis courts a

CAN THE MARKET really make the nation's expensive auto insurance system cheaper? Two leading

I'm still not sure what qualified me for the New York Financial Writers Association's annual Elliot

Proxmire Draws Fire For Maritime ViewsSen. William Proxmire recently authored a widely circu

It may seem a long way from the missile treaty that President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba

THE DEPARTMENT of Justice's trust-busters have confounded the critics once again. By petitioning the

WHEN THEY MET in Acapulco at the end of last month, the presidents of Mexico and seven South America

U.S. corporations, already spending over $15 billion annually on housing benefits to recruit and rel

Many problems exist for exporters. A few years ago, the high U.S. dollar was blamed. Today, exporter

The Agriculture Department is about to announce the U.S. sugar import quota for 1988 - an event cert

The risk is rising that the U.S. economy may face a serious drop in business activity in 1988. The o

THIS NEWSPAPER, like many others, frequently reports on the barriers faced by U.S. companies that wi

Omission of a word in a letter by Lucius Gilman published on this page last Friday reversed the mean

WHEN SOMEBODY OWES YOU $100, it's their worry, the saying goes. But when they owe you $1 million, it

The 1980s have not been kind to the U.S. labor movement. Labor has been forced to fight, often unsuc

The stock market decline has had the beneficial effect of focusing greater attention on the budget d

Hundreds of bunches of flowers still spill across the sidewalk in front of King's Cross station in L

WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN says there is no reason to expect a recession due to the stock market crash, h

THE TREATY OVER intermediate-range nuclear forces that President Reagan and Soviet Communist Party G

Nuclear Plants Expensive to OperateThe Journal of Commerce's Nov. 10 editorial, "Nukes and P

U.S.-BASED MULTINATIONAL FIRMS have a new tax fight on their hands - a House Ways and Means Committe

The Wall Street Journal (or Brand X, as we call it around here) last week published two articles th

HAITI'S MILITARY RULERS are nervous, and no wonder: Their utter failure to protect the safety of can

Do you remember Procrustes, one of the great villains of Greek legend? He was the robber of

THE COLD FACTS of budget austerity notwithstanding, James Burnley, who took office as secretary of T

DUMPING IS ONE of the more controversial terms in the trade experts' lexicon. Technically, it means

SLIGHTLY MORE THAN A YEAR has passed since Congress, overriding President Reagan's veto, enacted mod

Gasoline Marketing And CompetitionI read with interest your Nov. 9 editorial, "Retailers and