Commentary

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

SEVERAL OF AMERICA'S EUROPEAN allies are demanding that the United States close its bases in their c

MOST PEOPLE IN BUSINESS claim to like an economic system that relies on competition. But when it com

Does Arthur Laffer's famous cocktail napkin lie tattered on the floor in the wake of the market cras

JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT Congress was ready to deal with serious matters like railroad regulation and se

Events of the last several weeks have demonstrated once again that, at least so far as financial new

WHILE YUPPIES ARE OUT spending on pasta machines they never use, their representatives in Congress a

Ethiopian Food Aid Not in JeopardyThe article "Rate Hikes Threaten Famine Aid" (Oct. 20) inc

The similarity between the stock market crash of 1987 and that of 1929 has caused some economists an

I was on a dangerous mission last weekend, the kind on which you just might cross yourself as you si

Cutting a swath across the Pacific, the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ar

YESTERDAY'S CONSERVATIVE IDEAS are becoming the pet projects of today's liberals. Or at least, so it

It's a situation only the federal government could get itself into. On the one hand, the Uni

World financial markets have been at their manic-depressive best lately. Prices of practically every

WASHINGTON'S BUDGET WRITERS are getting more creative by the day, coming up with gimmicks to make th

There were no trumpets sounding and no thundering of drums as representatives of the Association of

THE 1980s HAVE BROUGHT the world's trade negotiators face to face with issues of unprecedented compl

To help spur economic growth, President Reagan, Congress, the International Monetary Fund and the Wo

CONFLICTS IN NATIONAL LAWS are a constant problem for companies operating in international trade. A

Brussels is suffering from another bout of political schizophrenia. As the capital of the Eu

US Shipping Study A Rehash of TheoryThe latest U.S. Merchant Marine Study has produced a rer

In the 1960s, Time Magazine ran the headline Is God Dead? screaming across its cover. God st

A NEW DEPRESSION is highly unlikely, but economist Herbert Stein warns it could happen if we don't

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE may never win a popularity contest among customhouse brokers, but even brok

THE TROUBLED SOUTHEAST ASIAN nation of Malaysia needs all the help it can get in Washington. But at

The 100th Congress, we were told, was to be dedicated to countering unfair practices by our trading

It's hard to believe, but Elmhurst, Queens, where I grew up, once was a place of large, stately tree

THE FIASCO IN the financial markets this month has generated precious little in the way of optimism.

Facing a nearly $170 billion trade deficit, the United States is searching for ways to get out from

Hormone Safety Issue Has Been AddressedYour editorial, "Hot Words on Hormones," which appear

As it meets in Beijing this week, the Chinese Communist Party Congress will reaffirm the change in t

AS THE WAR on international shipping in the Persian Gulf continues, the United States has taken two

CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION may not have agreed on the tune, but they both have the same dance s

The recent signing of a proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement has ignited a political storm of e

There may be a little of the Reagan luck left: In the last week the president saw the prospects for

As Wall Street starts to clear the debris from the earthquake in stocks, agonizing reappraisals are

Do we need Shipping Act regulation and antitrust immunity for ports and terminals? Or could they fun

THE UNITED STATES and Japan are near agreement on opening up construction of the $8.5 billion Kansai

THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH of the short-line railroad industry has been one of the economic mysteries of t

It may have started by the use of a four-letter word - the most emotion- charged of all such words.<