Commentary

A black market currency dealer in the lobby of the top-rated Forum Hotel in Bratislava, Czechoslovak

Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's richly deserved Nobel Peace Prize, some Japanese leaders still speak of

WHEN YOU'RE THE U.S POSTAL SERVICE, you don't worry about competition for first class mail. Postal m

TANKER PURCHASER NOT RELATED TO SHELLWe appreciate that your editorial "Good Citizens?" (Nov

WITH THE FUTURE OF the multilateral trading system hanging in the balance, the world's trade ministe

An internal State Department telex from Osaka, Japan, is causing wry amusement here. The muc

Snarled traffic in many of the Third World's largest cities has led to the construction of new rail

When U.S. legislators recently considered the usually humdrum subject of export reform, they sparked

The airline industry is expected to report staggering fourth-quarter losses as a result of the sharp

I can give you all the fancy reasons we appear to be in a recession, butsomehow they don't

Americans should be repulsed by the spectacle of United Airlines and American Airlines picking like

IT WON'T CORRECT the dire Soviet food shortage expected this winter, but leaders in the Russian Repu

IS THE U.S. ECONOMY in a recession? Economists have been debating that question for months, but the

ILLINOIS' TRUCKING REGULATORS can't make up their minds. Last summer, state officials struck a blow

IT'S GETTING HARDER to tell the U.S. automakers from the Japanese automakers. Toyota Motor Co.'s ann

POINT, COUNTERPOINT ON DUMPING POLICYTrade lawyer Paul Rosenthal's rebuttal of Thomas Thomps

The Bush administration, Congress and much of the surface transportation industry will do battle nex

The Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is scheduled to conclude at a minist

VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS say they hope all the factions in the 12-year-old civil war in Cambodia will em

IT'S BEING CALLED "an accident in Polish democracy." When roughly 16 million Poles turned out to vot

The news media and the government recently figured out that we're in a recession. Some busin

A major confrontation is brewing between the Federal Reserve, the administration and Congress. With

Yoshihito Watanabe glanced at the office windows and was pleased to see there was no moon to lighten

SHOULD FOREIGN CORPORATIONS be allowed to buy U.S. airlines? Officials at the Department of Transpo

CHECK THE FACTS ON US-FLAG SHIPPINGI would have preferred that this letter would have had as

Having won the battle over beef and oranges, the United States now insists that the Japanese must ea

Being American means never having to say you're sorry. We're always the guys with the white hats. We

The dashing Michael Heseltine, the statesman-like Douglas Hurd or the personable John Major. That is

American chemical exporters are outraged. A Korean chemical company, Korea Engineering Plastics, has

MARGARET THATCHER DID WONDERS to help Britain grow and prosper in the 1980s. Her departure will do t

The World Bank's executive board is slated this week to take up an increasingly touchy issue - new l

VIETNAMESE BANKING OFFICIALS last week said the government has allowed the creation of the country's

NOT MANY PEOPLE are sanguine about the economy these days, but there's a contrarian in every crowd.<

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner's decision last week to sell three government-owned natur

You have comfortably and safely settled down in your seat in an airplane flying from Geneva to Londo

President Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari are due to confer early next week in

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan set a trap for the stock market last week. Mr. Greenspan lo

NVO BILL TO ENFORCE EXISTING REGULATIONSYour editorial about proposed non-vessel-operating c

Time is running out fast for Western Europe to defuse a ticking time bomb that threatens to convulse

President Bush meets next week with Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to discuss progress