Commentary

From the very first day that President Reagan assumed office with his supposed mandate from the coun

Your editorial, "Repeal Antitrust Immunity" (JofC, Feb. 27), shows how well the proponents of bigger

ON ONLY TWO OCCASIONS - World War II and the 1973 Arab oil embargo - has the federal government take

Everyone has a terrible taxi story. When people find out that I have studied the New York taxi work

In the current trade-competitiveness debate, there is a factor that has not been given adequate atte

Insurance Leaders' Attitude UnhealthyTwo articles, one quoting William O. Bailey, vice chair

CORPORATE EXECUTIVES think airline deregulation is working well, but they are liking air travel less

In Vaughn Beals, the blunt-speaking 59-year-old Harley-Davidson chairman, America has a new corporat

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's pitch to voters in the fast-approaching general election will be

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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