Commentary

A recent book on listening says that while we may spend most of the day doing it, we'll hear only ha

ALAN GREENSPAN, President Reagan's nominee to chair the Federal Reserve Board finally got his confir

THE CURRENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION continues to surprise both the pros and the armchair economists with

We have a rule at The Journal of Commerce, one pretty much ignored elsewhere in newspapering these d

Victims of industrial accidents require prompt, certain, and reasonably generous relief. But while t

Without coordinated international action to reform prevailing fiscal, monetary, credit and commercia

CONGRESS IS ITCHING to take another whack at Toshiba Corp. The Senate, angered by the evasion of con

DANIEL OLIVER, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, rarely passes up the chance to preach h

The Journal of Commerce welcomes letters to the editor. Letters intended for publication should incl

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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