Commentary

For more than two years, the Federal Reserve - with the active encouragement of the Reagan Administr

FARMERS DO IT, hard-pressed individuals do it, even giant corporations like Manville do it. Do what?

America's ability to provide economic leadership - whether as an advocate for economic liberty or as

JUST AS EUROPEANS don't want to drive big U.S. cars, neither do they want large U.S.-made refrigera

It was once said that "free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a

Superficially, it would be easy to see the British government's approval of a merger of the state-ow

CARGO PREFERENCE: The very thought is almost certain to raise the hackies of shippers, especially fa

A LONG-SOUGHT INTERNATIONAL ACCORD on foreign export credit subsidies may finally be at hand.

I'd like the commend The Journal of Commerce on the policy it has begun with regard to unemployed pe

WE WERE PASSING the Merrill Lynch building the other night when a familiar figure stepped out in fr

I have never quite taken The New Yorker magazine seriously. Part of its attraction, I suspect, when

We've have seen a lot of hokum and smoke out of Washington through the years, but the recent congres

THEY SAY PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, but in trade negotiations with the Japanese, U.S. trade officials hav

If there is one trade legislative proposal on which almost everyone seems agreed, it is to give U.S.

Since the beginning of September some 300 or so people in Britain have found themselves readers of t

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S innovative interpretation of the Antiballistic Missiles Treaty, it is wi

LIKE KING CANUTE, the finance ministers of the five leading industrialized countries will meet in P

Reporter's Reference To Sinking UnfairI refer to your article datelined Chesapeake, Va., (Jo

About this time every year, the Congressional Budget Office presents the House and Senate budget com

''People in foreign countries have been 'America-watching' for years," says Dr. Eugene Mendonsa of t

A CADRE OF FREE MARKET ENTHUSIASTS meets in Washington today to launch what has become an annual ca

Six years after the second oil shock, Saudi Arabia and the other wealthy Arab kingdoms along the Per

Wanted: One senior executive to oversee the most exciting civil engineering project of the century.<

On the same day OPEC announced it would cut crude oil production and raise prices to $18 a barrel, a

My calculator must need new batteries; these figures just don't make sense. With these words Miss Na

GUY F. TOZZOLI IS RETIRING from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after 40 years with th

THE ENERGY BUSINESS HAS BECOME increasingly competitive over the past few years. If you don't believ

IS THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION really committed to helping U.S. exporters? Some businessmen have doubt

''We have to forge our future, instead of waiting for it to happen," the soft-spoken, lightly bearde

I knew I was back home in San Francisco when driving into the city from the airport along Junipero S

ONE CALL FOR THE WHOLE HAUL. That's how Hays T. Watkins, chairman and chief executive officer of CSX

HOW TOUGH ARE THE JAPANESE when it comes to trade negotiations? To hear Glen S. Fukushima tell it,

AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL trend toward protectionism is the issue of jobs. For a politician, a prot

It's no contest when the colossal comes up against the merely sensible on the political playing fiel

As part of its ongoing but thus far relatively ineffectual efforts to defend its sovereignty in the

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker have for some time b

OH, THOSE SLY FELLOWS, your congressman and mine. It was bad enough when they failed to knock down t

In a sense, the cargo preference laws have never been stronger. The decisions of the U.S. District

When the Iran arms-contra aid scandal first began making headlines in November, many experienced Was

THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY CAN WORK in a deregulated environment or a totally regulated one, but not in so