Commentary

THE PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR to the United States, Cesar Atala Nazal, has come up with a "supply-side" so

It might surprise some people to learn that the collapse of communism has not turned East Europeans

INSURERS REJECT "PRIVATE" LABELWe are deeply troubled and angered by the sensationalism and

SHOULD AN INNER CITY RESIDENT, forced to ride subways and buses, be less protected from a drug-affli

An unsettling international flap over long tractor trailers that is pitting U.S. trailer manufacture

The national transportation policy that Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner previewed in a re

If you think things get quiet at the end of December and early January, you ought to be in Asia in t

AIR TRAVEL DELAYS cost the economy nearly $5 billion last year, the Federal Aviation Administration

ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES WOULD CUT POLLUTIONI believe your Dec. 26 editorial, "Fuel Alternatives

STEP RIGHT UP AND TAKE YOUR PICK! Buy insurance, have a disaster and Uncle Sam will pay. Or, don't b

President Bush is facing a major challenge over federal taxes, practically on the eve of his first f

Even to some of its most dedicated adherents, Japan's vaunted education system always has seemed des

EVERYBODY AGREES on the need to reduce toxic pollutants in the air. But as Congress resumesdebate on

IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY that taxpayers were asked to dig deep into their pockets to bail outthe federa

As a deep freeze gripped most of the nation recently, the price of heating oil rose dramatically. Be

DOUBLE BOTTOM STAND GETS HIGH MARKSAs a critic of your Oct. 17 editorial which endorsed limi

''COMMISSION HAS MEETING" is not the sort of headline newspaper editors dream about. But the Inters

If Greece this year manages to turn around a faltering economy, it will be largely due to two 86-yea

Politicians, trade policy officials and business people are overly preoccupied with Japan. Their myo

CLEANING UP THE AIR can't be mandated in isolation: The costs of reducing emissions should be weighe

WASHINGTON, AFTER YEARS OF DITHERING, finally agrees that acid rain is an environmental problem. But

Many lessons have been drawn from the continuing crisis of the savings and loan industry. Unfortuna

The Soviet Union is sliding into a deepening crisis that could shift Mikhail Gorbachev from man of t

IT'S FED-BASHING TIME AGAIN on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Bush, White House spokesman Marlin Fi

It's another "make or break" week for a decision on a big money increase for the International Monet

Last week's meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, of high-level representatives of the Soviet-led Council for

DOUBLE BOTTOMS ARE SAFETY ANSWERYour Jan. 9 editorial, "Double Bottom Doubts," presents seve

In October, 17 experts from the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union conv

THE PAINS OF CONGESTION have become a routine part of air travel. Airline delays cost the economy $2

REGULATORY PROBLEMS OF RISK RETENTIONYour editorial "Insurance Warning" (Jan. 5) raises some

IT'S BEEN A ROUGH WEEK here at The Journal of Commerce. On Monday, as the near-collapse ofAmerican T

Last year's ethics scandals in the House were watched with a certain disdain in the Senate, a clubby

As tempers flare on both sides of the Pacific, the U.S.-Japan trade dispute threatens to get ugly. O

THAT MOST UNPREDICTABLE of senators, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tossed a hand grenade into the Bush ad

WAS IT A MOMENT OF MADNESS on the part of Amtrak Chairman W. Graham Claytor? Last week, in announcin

On a Washington street corner recently, a polished Marine stood beside a tattered waif whoclutched a

U.S. MEMORIES was supposed to be a model of the future. Private electronics companies in the United

Due to technical problems, H. Erich Heinemann's weekly column on the economy does not appear today.

World trade negotiations now under way in Geneva will conclude this year. The Uruguay Round of the G

The economic disaster faced by hundreds of villages in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria could