Commentary

A SHOT ACROSS THE BOW: That's how one might describe President Reagan's decision to slap penalty dut

THE CLOSER U.S. NAVAL SHIPS get to the Iran-Iraq war zone to protect neutral shipping, the more dang

Giving Away Amtrak Would Be Poor PolicyI was astounded by our editorial "Give Away Amtrak,"

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA is a very big word, and according to J. Patrick Bradley and Robert J. Christian, i

Journalist/economist Jude Wanniski has come out with his new "MediaGuide." Mr. Wanniski publ

HOUSE AND SENATE budget committees will vote out their fiscal 1988 spendingplans midweek, on

Gorbachev Article Missed the PointDid my eyes deceive me or did I really read in "The Journa

IN OUR EDITORIAL the other day on railroad re-regulation (JofC, March 23) we said that having failed

The time has come to entertain the idea of restructuring the electric utility industry, because the

One of the great virtues of a daily newspaper is the ability to add to or amend what you have writte

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE SKY as big as America. High above Antarctica, over the vast ice cap and snow-

CHINA HAS JUST MADE KNOWN that its Great Wall credit card plans to merge with MasterCard Internation

New visa requirements for non-EC citizens imposed last year by France in an effort to curb the movem

The economic spasms of the health-care system now come with increasing frequency - such as:

President Reagan devoted his weekly radio broadcast last weekend to several budget reform proposals

CLEVER DAN ROSTENKOWSKI. The House Ways and Means Committee chairman knows too well that more revenu

NOT LONG AGO, a manager earning his age - $30,000 at age 30 - was said to be on the fast track. But

Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign against liquor has thrown Soviet statisticians for a loop. To offset th

There's something odd in women's stockings these days. Oh, sure, they are still putting legs

THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE Federal Aviation Administration, Donald D. Engen, announced last week he w

Warning: Exporting can be hazardous to your mental health. In response to the nation's stagg

IT'S HARD TO VIEW what is happening to the dollar as other than part of a coordinated Reagan adminis

Fleet Analysis Missed the MarkThe Journal of Commerce has a long and deservedly fine reputat

THERE IS NO coordinated coal export policy in the Reagan administration and no high-level focal poi

ONE PLACE THE REAGAN administration wants no penny pinching is in the budget for the Internal Revenu

French-speaking Africa no longer is an unknown continent for U.S. business. Although this gr

In his spring budget presentation last Tuesday Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson painted a ro

Clarifying the Record On Potato TradeI read with some disbelief your editorial (JofC, March

THE IDEA OF GIVING the president authority to veto individual line items in spending bills has been

Comedian Bill Cosby in his latest book on Fatherhood" says a telltale sign that children are becomin

An interesting and fairly rare market event occurred as Inco and Owens- Illinois were replaced in th

CONGRESS WILL TAKE another look this year at how much freedom railroads should have to raise or low

EVEN AS WE WERE WARNING against its plans for data base snooping, the Reagan administration backed d

What's in a name? Specifically, what's in a byline? In eight years at the Journal of Commerc

THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association without Teddy Gleason in charge? For most of the shipp

IT'S 19 MONTHS until next year's presidential election, if anyone in Washington needed reminding, an

The Council of the Americas has released another report on how the men in the business trenches of d

Nobody seems ready to divulge the full facts about a new east-west situation full of paradox and per

Let there be no misunderstanding of the true meaning of free enterprise. It does not mean being sin

Is the competitiveness fever perverting academic values by putting money- making industrial goals ah