Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once upon a time there were two clans, the Hatfields and the McKawas. The Hatfields, though

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S COMMISSION on Merchant Marine and Defense, appointed lastDecember to asse

The four middle-of-the road parties that form the Swiss government emergedfrom the national

There is one indisputable reason why a new, comprehensive national trade policy must be put into pla

THE AFL-CIO HAS TAKEN one more step to unite the House of Labor. Thirty years after expelling the In

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Transportation, an avid promoter of bigger airlines, has finally found a merg

THE NORWEGIAN POLICE REPORT of widespread export control violations by West European machine tool ma

Robert Brusca, chief economist at Nikko Securities Co. International in the Wall Street financial di

SEVERAL THOUSAND unsettled trucking executives arrive in New York this week to take stock of their i

The U.S. Senate has begun its debate on the restructuring of Medicare to provide catastrophic health

THE CROWDED NORTHEAST has little liking for nuclear power. Two completed nuclear generating stations

EVERY SO OFTEN, Washington's hucksters offer painless new remedies for budgetary ailments. The lates

Energy Independence Must Be US PriorityAs recent articles show, our nation's foreign policie

It is well known that the union movement in the United States has suffered a serious decline in memb

When George Bush surprised absolutely no one by announcing a week or two ago that he would be a cand

As we begin a new round of trade negotiations in Geneva, the political debate over U.S. agricultural

Just before the tension began rising in the Persian Gulf late last week, the House Merchant Marine a

OVER THE CENTURIES, seafarers in cramped shipboard quarters have followed a simple rule: When you're

AS EXTREME FREE-MARKET economic ideas have prospered in recent years, a new understanding of financi

Are Alan Greenspan's first two months in office a sign of things to come? I hope not. Bond prices ha

Visitors from the United States or Western Europe, observing the lives of their Japanese counterpart

WHAT TO MAKE of Wall Street? No one can enjoy a nearly 30 percent drop in the market value o

The global economy is teetering on the edge of financial panic this week. The murderous slump in sto

As President Reagan publicly takes credit for the record-breaking length of this economic expansion,

THE EUROPEAN COURT of Justice last week opened the way for the European Community to ban the use of

THE UNITED STATES Department of Justice is well on its way to building a labor conglomerate in Great

Truckload Carriers Too Often ForgottenYour editorial of Sept. 25 fails to make a key point o

Lately, we have had a rash of news columns blasting airline deregulation. I can't say for certain, b

BRAZIL MAY SOON be hit with a one-two punch from Washington. Next week, federal bank regulat

LIKE A RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE, the movement to re-regulate the railroads is gathering momentum on Capito

Essex House is a hotel in New York City now owned by the Japanese. It is located at the opening of C