Commentary

Business groups hope Congress will take some additional steps this year to help U.S. industry compet

The Gulf War created a new lexicon for describing the geopolitical fallout in the Middle East. Comme

REP. SAM GIBBONS IS FED UP with foreign governments that subsidize their commercial shipbuilders, an

U.S. CONSUMERS COULD SAVE an estimated $20 billion this year, if the House follows the Senate's lead

Forgotten in the uproar over the the proposed U.S.-Canada-Mexico talks for a North American free tra

Washington lawyers are gearing up for a decade of full employment. The issue is custom-made for them

Logging wars are raging from the Philippines to Minnesota, from British Columbia to Brazil. The fore

The growing debate over the proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade accord is only the beginning. The real

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE is not the first company to transfer its corporate headquarters from the pricy

A FOREIGNER TRYING TO UNDERSTAND the attitudes of the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress towa

After spending parts of several days looking at statistics on testing railroad workers for alcohol a

NOTHING PRESIDENT BUSH CAN SAY will completely satisfy critics of his proposed free trade agreement

An effort to leash the independence of the Federal Reserve Board is gaining ground in Congress. But

FACTS SKEWED IN NEW SHIPS DEBATEWe can always count on The Journal of Commerce to find gloom

SOME PEOPLE'S OPINIONS MATTER more than others. If a few consumers believe the economy won't pick up

GOVERNMENT HAS A LEGITIMATE INTEREST in funding high-technology research, which can position U.S. co

Maw and Paw were up here last week from Mugsville to attend the spring meeting of their two favorite

The European Community has moved closer to a monetary union since the establishment in 1979 of the E

The 1990-91 recession should be over by Labor Day. That is the good news. The bad news is that the

MEXICANS HAVE HIGH HOPES for a U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement. According to the government newspap

Would Sen. Prescott Bush have supported his son George Bush's much-debated tariff decisions - free t

DURING THE PAST 18 MONTHS, the United States, Japan and the European Community have rarely missed a

In the minds of many Westerners, there is little difference between the countries of Eastern Europe.

ILWU TRIED TO REPLACE STEELWORKERSYour editorial "Abusive Practice" (April 18) provided a so

The Bush administration's attempt to draft a new export controls bill is bogged down in differences

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. soon may help bail out Chrysler Corp. to the tune of $300 million. When a ma

With news that the Federal Reserve Board lowered the discount rate by a half percentage point to cou

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES are best made with national needs in mind. That simple concept take

Yugoslavia's republics are probably living through the last months of a marriage arranged under the

Five of us were in line at London's Gatwick Airport, waiting for our Northwest Airlines' flight to B

THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY should be pleased with the gist of Labor Secretary Lynn Martin's proposal thi

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is under increasing pressure from U.S. business to end its trade embargo aga

War is good for business, right? Wrong, at least in the case of the gulf conflict. Over almost as so

U.S. THREATS OF TRADE RETALIATION against Japan made front page news last week, but another trade ac

It is only an unofficial estimate in a footnote but it's one example of the surprising bite in what

ILL-CONCEIVED HARBOR FEE THWARTS TRADEYour article "U.S. Exporters Decry Harbor Fee Inequity

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN long has been a thorn in the side of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbac

The U.S.-Japanese trade negotiating process represents a rusting treadmill, still unable to correct

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD FINALLY took a move long-awaited by the Bush administration. On Tuesday i

Times are tough on Main Street. The $47 billion drop in domestic demand last winter made plain that