Commentary

After a decade of deregulation, is the Interstate Commerce Commission likely to impose stiff new rat

By the standards applied to most mortals, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is doing a pre

Washington and Tokyo voiced mutual satisfaction with the Structural Impediments Initiative, which en

The father of free market economics, Adam Smith, once said that the true cost of anything is the to

OCEAN ENERGY IS AS GOOD AS IT SOUNDSThis is in response to the article "Geothermal Power Deb

MORE THAN 4,500 PEOPLE WILL DIE this year in highway accidents involving large trucks. Speeding, as

THE SOVIET UNION DESPERATELY needs aid and investment from Japan, but it wants it free and clear. Th

NAUTICAL 'ANTIQUES' ARE VITAL TO DEFENSEI am writing in response to Rep. William S. Broomfie

AS NEGOTIATIONS ON NEW RULES for international trade head toward their climax, warning lights are st

As one of my students observed in late 1989, "history seems to have sped up." At such times, the yea

IN A YEAR OF DIPLOMATIC SURPRISES, none is more astonishing than this week's visit to South Korea by

Considering that several years ago enthusiastic hackers began breaking into computer systems worldwi

THE NOT-IN-MY-BACKYARD syndrome has made it all but impossible to build power plants in the Northeas

Although we have plenty of agricultural surpluses around and do not lack the confidence to tell the

Robert Bork remarked ruefully the other day that "it took Saddam Hussein to get Judge David Souter

In recent months all East European countries have experimented with market elements. State enterpris

THERE IS NO END, IT SEEMS, to the stream of anti-competitive legislation put forth in Congress under

THE DEATH OF 23 WORKERS in a Texas chemical plant explosion last October was a tragedy. But the Occu

For the first time in almost a month, the Middle East crisis was swept off the front pages of Britai

THE FACTS SUPPORT TEXTILE BILL PASSAGEThe Journal of Commerce attacks the Associated Press f

CRYING "UNFAIRNESS" IS ONE of the easiest ways for U.S. businesses to stifle competition from import

On June 27, President Bush announced the Enterprise for the Americas plan for Latin American economi

THE CENSUS COUNT IS OUT, at least in preliminary form, and almost everyone's unhappy. In almost ever

Dramatic change is under way in a most unlikely place. Mongolia, a landlocked nation of only 2 milli

US YARDS REDUCING COST OF DOUBLE HULLSYour Aug. 15 article, "Will Double Hull Mandate Cut Oi

With almost one-third of his term in office behind him, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexic

The confrontation in the Persian Gulf has led to some odd image problems for its two principal figur

CONGRESS SHOULD EASE RAIL LINE TRANSFERSYour July 9 edition carried an "analysis" article re

PRESIDENT BUSH'S ASTUTE diplomatic moves and firm military response have turned the tide in the Midd

IT'S BEING HAILED as a major historical breakthrough, but the United Nations agreement reached Monda

August 1990, like October 1987, was a time of truth for Wall Street. Both stocks and bonds fell as i

VACATION IS ALMOST OVER, and with it George Bush's reprieve from the harsh winds of Washington. Sinc

In the effort to find a politically painless way of reducing the deficit, the folks in Washington ar

Is the International Trade Commission - the federal agency that probes foreign countries' trade prac

BUCHAREST WILL BE THE SCENE of protracted unrest for years to come, judging by last week's riots in

GEORGE BUSH wants to be remembered as the environmental president. Somebody ought to tell the Secre

THE POLITICS OF RICE have changed in Japan. The politics of the Japanese bureaucracy apparently have

CEMENT COMPANIES JUST WANT FAIR PRICESAs attorney for petitioners in the recent anti-dumping

Amid the flurry of reports about higher profile subjects in the Geneva trade talks, such as agricult

"Now's the time to invest in East Germany! 8,000 firms offer you a stake in their activities." Or so