Commentary

The Federal Reserve System finally took serious action last week to control the dollar crisis.

A U.S. SENATOR'S aide called recently to complain that one of our reporters had given her boss some

LAST WEEK'S SUPREME COURT decision allowing railroad unions to picket carriers connecting with a roa

The one safe assumption about summits and other international meetings and conferences is that the l

DOES IT BOTHER YOU when someone takes his time about cashing a check? Well consider the problem of U

Even the weather is working in Margaret Thatcher's favor. Two weeks of glorious sunshine aro

THE GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN is understandably upset by a scandal rocking its defense establishment. Acc

Don't give the Japanese all the credit for the U.S. bull market. You read that Japanese institutions

George Herman, who should know, thinks television news was in trouble long before the recent merger

TRANSPORT-RELATED INDUSTRIES will have a big impact on overall wage trends in coming months.

In an Associated Press story appearing in the Thursday, April 30 edition, the incorrect aircraft typ

SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE William Rehnquist has weighed in with his opinion of state and federal s

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT AUTHORITIES is searching for a new president, and the current state

SOME ALARMING THINGS have been reported recently about ozone, the protective layer of gas that shiel

Malcom McLean is best known among business people for revolutionizing the general cargo shipping ind

In concluding his six-year run as chairman of the Federal CommunicationsCommission, Mark Fow

Radio Days, Woody Allen's nostalgic recreation of what life was like when he was growing up in the 1

THERE IS A NEW GAME in town, as good as a day at the races. It's watching a key vote, like that in t

HUNTERDON COUNTY, in western New Jersey, wants help. Fully 24 percent of all the accidents on Hunter

Bridge Inspections: Fewer Can Be BetterTwo days after the collapse of the Schoharie Creek br

Ladies and gentleman. As a high point of this show, we will not make a dove disappear. Too simple. R

What did the president know and when did he know it? The question, certainly unfairly, may p

THE RESIGNATION LAST WEEK of one of the railroad industry's most prominent chief executives sheds so

ON A RECENT TRIP through Washington's National Airport, a traveler stopped to ask an airline employe

The traveler to the Soviet Union these days is likely to find some pleasant surprises. One i

John G. Bowes and John N. Rosekrans Jr. have been a business team since high school when they first

In recent years I have enjoyed reading the catchy captions on news releases emanating from the House

Emerging from the dark isolation of Franco's rule, Spain has become one of Europe's most vibrant nat

THERE WILL BE NO lack of bills introduced in this Congress designed to improve the U.S.-flag share o

TEDDY GLEASON, whose favorite device for turning aside reporters' questions was the familiar catch-p

The dollar crisis is deepening. Bond prices are dropping to sharply lower levels. Interest rates on

In the last 15 years much has changed in India and much remains the same. The overall picture is bri

AN ENGLISH COUPLE are the parents of two children, both products of eggs fertilized with sperm in a

There is a certain irony in Ivan Boesky and Guinness, the international beer and liquor company invo

Tax on Gasoline Not the AnswerYour editorial Rosty Buys the "Gas Tax (JofC March 26) says th

SINCE 1980, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S reporting of the nation's trade statistics has been a very peculia

IT'S NO SURPRISE that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's sales tax plan was rejected by the

A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT here holds that little progress will be made soon to knock down the legal and ad

I was talking with my Journal of Commerce colleague Larry Kaufman about the state of the railroad in

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT is making a big mistake. Under the reputedly pragmatic James A. Bake