Commentary

As much as anything else, the Iran-contra scandal has demonstrated the pitfalls of a White House pol

The headline proclaimed that the United States owes more than Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina combined

No sooner have the insurance markets recovered from their worst market capacity crisis ever than the

THE TRADE BILL approved by the Senate Tuesday is far from perfect. But if lawmakers from the House a

Dr. Samuel Johnson's dictionary defines excise as "a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudg

Wall Street has been off in an orbit all its own during the last few weeks. The prices of stocks, b

THE POLITICAL IMMATURITY of Asia's newly industrializing countries has been a longstanding source of

CANADA'S RESTRICTIONS on trans-border trucking have become a persistent if minor irritant in relati

Something has seriously gone awry in my life. I'm at mid-life (I'm not really sure of that;

My editor called the other day and asked me to write the first installment of a monthly report on We

Frankfurter Report Was Misleading"Japan's Hot Dog Curbs Snag Frank Exchange" (July 2), conta

WHEN IT TAKES UP the nomination of Alan Greenspan to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board th

AMERICAN WORKERS are often the unwitting pawns in corporate restructuring. Investors and financial a

Export subsidies and depressed world market prices for farm products are causing diplomatic and poli

BARRING UNFORESEEN EVENTS, the Senate's omnibus trade bill will finally be passed on Tuesday.

When Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, it had in mind a very specific and very seriou

STEEL PRICES ARE AGAIN on the rise. USX has raised the price of sheet by $25 a ton. Bethlehem Steel'

FOR THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY, already scorched by record numbers of consumer complaints, the Senate

Back in the days when television programs came only in two colors - black and white - we kids raised

The dramatic growth in air commerce we have seen in the United States is now being repeated througho

Delaware County, N.Y., on the western edge of the Catskills, is John Burroughs country. This year th

SMOKE, MIRRORS AND OPTIMISTIC revenue estimates cannot hide the fact that almost no progress has bee

You could call it the $10 billion differential. The U.S. and Canadian authorities who ponder

Life sometimes exhibits a strange symmetry. Within a fortnight, two giants of economic policy making

When this government's top officials go to Philadelphia today for the ceremony celebrating the bicen

THE AVERAGE PRICE of gasoline in the United States hit $1 a gallon last week for the first time in

Anyone that doubts things are changing in South Africa should take a stroll through Hillbrow, the hi

THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE at the Western Union Telegraph Co. were kind enough to send us a message the

INCREDIBLE AS IT MAY SEEM, a shipowner is not responsible for cargo lost or damaged because his crew

On Wednesday, July 8, the Western Economic Association sponsored a debate on ''Appointing a Fed Chai

Just when the Japanese were beginning to think that Japan bashing was at its peak in Washington, alo

For some reason, the steel industry is always the object of government's attention, if not its affec

As vital as free trade with the United States may be to Canada it is not a matter of free trade at a

Calls for Clarification Of Product DumpingThe Journal of Commerce deserves to be complimente

UNIFICATION MAY MEAN SURVIVAL for the ports along the Delaware River. The Delaware River Port Author

Nine months ago, The Journal of Commerce ran the headline Wall Street habits come to the City of Lon

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS to come out of all the political speeches by would-be presidents these days i

A KEY HOUSE MEMBER promises a floor fight over the controversial question of when legal fees can be

With Congress in the midst of a historic debate on the direction of U.S. trade policy, a parallel de

I asked John Arwood what made him successful in the transportation industry. There are not too many