Commentary

PROSPECTS FOR AIRLINE INDUSTRY re-regulation continue to loom, notwithstanding recent improvements i

I'm beginning to appreciate how the rural natives of Nicaragua must feel. We have been invad

Time is running out. Congress must pass implementing legislation for the harmonized system soon or f

AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL shipping lines have apparently agreed on just how they want to attack proble

A long time ago, I walked into the office of the Washington bureau news editor for a major national

In their efforts to reduce the deficit, negotiators from the congressional leadership and the admini

It is unfortunate that the most massive stock market drop in history was needed to alert Americans t

OF ALL THE SUBSIDIES the U.S. government provides to U.S. industries, none is less defensible than t

The stock market crash jolted Washington policy-makers who had been deadlocked over deficit reductio

The quip that Hong Kong will be a nice place when it is finished arises from the fact that it never

WHAT IS INSIDER TRADING? By failing to decide the issue of whether former Wall Street Journal report

INSURANCE COMPANIES are fond of lecturing their commercial customers about the value of a long-term

Nearly a month after the earthquake in the stock market, economic policy in the United States is sti

ADULT AMERICANS all recognize the significance of the April 15 deadline for filing income tax return

Maritime Industry Would Prefer NeglectWhile the U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Agreement may prove

The liberal world trading system in place since World War II was a product of U.S. leadership during

FIRST YOU HINT you might retaliate. Then you threaten retaliation. Next come talks to avert retaliat

Has Britain cast itself sadly adrift in its decision not to participate fully in the future plans of

If America is to achieve its goal of a healthy, competitive United States merchant fleet, the govern

THERE IS NO dearth of unpleasant provisions in the omnibus trade bill now pending in a congressional

CASPAR WEINBERGER hasn't yet departed, but it's already clear there's a new wind blowing through the

A stopped clock is correct twice a day. I'm certain that businesses that don't change and improve al

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION will have a new secretary and deputy secretary of Transportation this week

Two years have now passed since Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III made his first attempts

The news from Washington last week read like the pages of True Confessions. Not only did Sup

IT'S TIME TO PUT SOCIAL SECURITY on the table. As negotiators nibble away at an estimated $1

Japan and the United States are experiencing political, economic and psychological transitions not s

Dennis D. Miller, author of the article Soviets Ignore Grain Pledges published on this page Tuesday,

Mexican elections, despite opposition challenges and charges of irregularities, have produced the un

The international monetary system now revolves around monetary relations between the three great eco

AS A CHILD GROWS, he demands the right to decide things for himself. Realistically, parents have no

Wealth and Money Are Different ThingsI was astonished to read, in John Boyd's "Economic Beat

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL among those who would cartelize the world's trade. Now it's the turn of the tro

Some of the highest-paid men and women in Britain - the stars of Margaret Thatcher's economic revolu

MAINE'S VOTERS have soundly rejected efforts to close down Maine Yankee, the state's only nuclear ge

In September, the United States turned a blind eye when, for the third straight year, the Soviet Uni

EVEN AS THE LAST commercial ship under construction in the United States slides down the ways at Wis

Don't Eliminate Oil As US Energy SourceIn a recent letter (Oct. 23), John Bartis, president

Most everyone knowledgeable about trade, including those who write our editorials on this page, is c

THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL continues to languish in the massive House-Senate conference. House S