Commentary

THE SOVIET UNION IS FAR FROM an open society, but every day, it seems, the level of secrecy and sus

Consider the typical, conscientious, small-time Japanese investor: He watches market developments a

Summer doldrums are here. The weather is steamy. Financial markets are milling indecisively. The eco

Although Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's request for financial aid from the West was turned do

Washington risk-analyst Norman A. Bailey delights in saying that upon waking each morning he gives t

Scratch the surface of the consensus on Soviet aid cobbled together by the Group of Seven in their

'TRUCKING ROULETTE' A DOUBLE-ENTENDREThe caption of your editorial "Trucking Roulette" (July

IMAGINE IF THE POLITICAL PARTY that controls the White House had the right to proselytize in factori

DO OIL COMPANIES ENGAGE IN PRICE-FIXING when they release fuel prices to the press? Four Western sta

The Senate Finance Committee is planning a hearing on a controversial Customs Service study reported

LAST WEEK'S MOST IMPORTANT economic news came not from the London summit butfrom budget offi

A PLAN BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE to establish its own fleet of freighter aircraft to deliver some p

In lobbying for congressional passage of their bank reform package, administration officials have ma

There's plenty of evidence that signals a dark unhappiness in the bosoms of many Americans. Many of

EXECUTIVES WITH BIG DETROIT automakers have come under fire in the past for giving themselves fat ra

A contest for the future of Europe is under way. On one side is the momentum for a greater European

Now and then it's useful to be reminded that the wizards of technology are frail and vulnerable to e

''THERE IS NO POINT in having a market economy," said British Prime Minister John Major at this wee

DON'T BLAME ODS FOR SHIPPING DECLINEI read with great interest your July 3rd Publisher's Not

HAS PRESIDENT BUSH misinterpreted the law? That's what six Democratic senators claim. They are runni

MORE THAN 500,000 SHIPMENTS of hazardous goods crisscross the country every day. The vast majority a

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has made no secret of his desire for Western investment to bolste

Last week's solar eclipse set me thinking. For those among you kind enough not to reply that

US AIRCRAFT MAKERS ARE 'FAT,' 'LAZY'When I read in your July 8 edition that Federal Express

Hardly anyone believes that the failure of the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International was

SO FAR, SO GOOD. That's the best way to describe the government's attempt to modernize the nation's

Almost as intriguing as the annual seven-power economic summit is whathappens here every year just b

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is not likely to walk away from his meeting with Western leaders

ECONOMIC ANALYSTS IN JAPAN are accustomed to tracking the price of major commodities to divine the f

Monetary union with west Germany has converted east Germans to the ways of the West. But unfortunate

LAWMAKERS, IT SEEMS, can justify almost anything in the name of national security. The latest legisl

Has Israel turned the West Bank and Gaza into a captive economic colony? Is an independent Palestini

President Bush, in supporting renewal of most-favored-nation treatment for China, has linked trade t

Defense sales are often contingent upon special deals with the buyer. In the early 1980s, for exampl

Back in 1914, political instability in what is now Yugoslavia led to global tragedy when a Serbian n

Ocean carriers faced a stacked deck at a House trade subcommittee hearing last week, but they hope f

HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE RISING by the day, and the government's payouts for Medicare coverage are no e

BEIJING'S REACTION to a House vote to restrict China's preferential trading status, predictably, was

ALL THIS TALK ABOUT politics moving in on the Federal Reserve Board may be a little overblown.

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S MERE PRESENCE at next week's economic summit in London promises to transform thi