Commentary

PRESIDENT REAGAN is going down fighting in his budget battle with Congress, but his harsh criticisms

IN JAMES BURNLEY'S peace visit last week with Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., the acting transportati

IN BETWEEN the endless rounds of parties that marked last week's annual meeting of the World Bank an

Celebration of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution - the document, not the ship - began o

Faced with a seemingly endless series of monthly trade deficits, Americans are impatient for action

International Trade, National SecurityIn her article on national security and international

FIRST GARY HART, then Joseph Biden, now Patricia Schroeder and - very nearly - Michael Dukakis. The

IN THE AGE OF RAIL DEREGULATION, it's hard to justify telling a railroad that it's got to run a trai

The heart of this city is closer to its leafy suburbs than most; it is possible to be in suburban Ar

Much of official Washington is still suffering under the delusion that the trade deficit is a "probl

A critical factor in future battles will be the number of vessels we have and our ability to withsta

WHENEVER PAUL VOLCKER, Alan Greenspan, James A. Baker III, Wall Street and the Securities and Exchan

U.S. trade policy has fundamentally changed under the Reagan administration. In response to

MONETARISM IS DEAD. All but the hardest of the hard-core monetarists have recanted their belief that

THE ANGRY MOB accused of storming a ticket counter at Miami International Airport Sundaynight probab

Senator Joe Biden's bid for the White House crashed in flames last week, shot down, not byhis oppone

Attack on Regulation Full of DistortionsThe Sept. 11 issue of The Journal of Commerce carrie

THE MOST EMOTIONAL DISCUSSIONS over product liability law reform involve not whether consumers would

WE MET A BUDDING young stenographer on the subway who has hopes of earning over $100,000 ayear as a

In January 1985, the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness recommended enactment of l

What hard-pressed U.S. frontier guards found out the hard way, Italians now embroiled in a bitter an

Perhaps it's because Bill Armbruster, our trade editor, and I had to run three blocks to catch the L

Agriculture will be on the agenda as a joint conference committee begins its work of reconciling the

SEN. BOB PACKWOOD, R-Ore., a leading supporter of trucking deregulation, last week introduced a Reag

AS THE WORLD'S economic leaders come together in Washington this week for the annual meeting of the

Accuracy Questioned On Embassy StoryI recently was shown a copy of your article of Aug. 21,

The most-favored-nation principle has been at the center of U.S. trade policy and the General Agreem

THE UNITED NATIONS has long served as a handy whipping boy for U.S. politicians. Legislators of both

In the western Catskills, as in the rest of the nation, the big news of the week went virtually unno

THE GRASS ROOTS backlash that is hammering the nation's airlines no doubt emboldens critics of econo

IN WHAT MAY BE its last attempt to implement its domestic economic agenda, the Reagan administration

Uncle Sam is heading out to the farm with a "Protect the Environment" cap on his head and a stack of

Since the trade deficit scare began, many false notions have crept into our national economic debate

There is something uncomfortably fitting in the match-up of Judge Robert Bork as a Supreme Court nom

AS MALPRACTICE INSURANCE premiums around the country have multiplied, so have the efforts of state

World financial markets will focus on Washington this weekend, as the annual meetings of the World B

LAST YEAR, all the talk on Wall Street was of the triple witching hours, which occur once every thre

What's to be done with the dragons of Asia, whose dynamic economies are perceived to be sapping the

Twenty years ago, President John F. Kennedy called world trade a rising tide lifting all boats. Unfo

Due to an typographical error on this page yesterday, the meaning of the concluding paragraph in the