Commentary

THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY was strangely silent last week when Karen Phillips, nominated to fill a vacanc

THE FRENCH AND WEST GERMAN governments' decisions to forgive loans to nations in sub-Saharan Africa

Until the proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement surfaced, many Canadians suspected that fights o

Auction quotas are an idea whose time, in the view of many, has come. In the now-defunct Omnibus Tra

Soviet Trade Climate Remains Cool to USIt is not surprising that U.S.-Soviet trade and busin

WITH SOLOMONIC WISDOM, the governors of New York and Ohio have agreed on an imaginative plan to brea

For as long as I have been covering aviation, Eastern Airlines has been an aggressive, expansionist

THE $1.14 BILLION put out by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. to close down two Californ

A NEW FISHERIES AGREEMENT between the United States and the Soviet Union takes animportant first ste

The news came during the summit media splash about the new openness or glasnost of Soviet society an

Whenever U.S.-Soviet political relations begin to warm, officials in Washington develop scenarios fo

MANY COMPANIES THAT SHIP by truck are caught in a regulatory no-man's land. Congress partially dereg

FOR SEVEN YEARS, LOW ENERGY PRICES have been a major force in the relatively successful U.S. struggl

Microeconomics is suddenly in vogue. For years, government leaders in search of a stronger,

Wall Street, which likes nothing better than to work up a good sweat jumping to conclusions, has fou

A consensus is beginning to emerge that debt reduction is the only feasible way to manage Latin Amer

How McCarran Act Aids Insurance BuyersFor a newspaper that specializes in covering insurance

The Swedes sweat about it and the Japanese are nervous over it. European politicians wax eloquently

The Mexican poet and essayist, Octavio Paz, once said that American policy toward his country was ch

THE DEBATE OVER REFORMING the financial markets has gone precisely nowhere since last October's stoc

THE SUPREME COURT last week struck a blow for natural gas deregulation by reversing a bizarre lower

THE REAGAN administration can't find anyone in Congress to introduce its new Customs user fee bill.<

The problem with today, Don Welch said with an impish look in his bright blue eyes, is that tomorrow

If the Omnibus Trade Bill becomes law - either by veto override this week or in a stripped-down vers

NOW THAT CONGRESS is finally ready to approve a budget for the 1989 fiscal year, it is clearer than

STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE FOREVER finding new ways to keep big trucks off some of their interstate highw

Seaports often face the difficult task of balancing management autonomy with the demands of politici

WITH TAX DEDUCTIONS for consumer debt wiped out by the 1986 tax reform, loans secured by the borrowe

McCarran-Ferguson Enhances CompetitionYour May 25 editorial once again calls for repeal of t

MORE THAN SIX MONTHS have gone by since panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ruled t

The furor during the New York primary over Jesse Jackson's relationships with Jews (Jews . . . woul

Robin Hood stole gold and silver coins from the rich according to legend. Latter-day Robin Hoods ste

IT MANUFACTURES CIGARETTES. It has interests in South Africa. It is owned, in small part, by the gov

In 1543, storm-tossed Portuguese mariners went ashore on a Japanese island and traded a few firearms

Say what you want about Ronald Reagan's judgment, he picked a good week to be in Moscow and out of W

THE GRAY MARKET, ON WHICH GOODS made by U.S. companies abroad are sold without their permission in t

On May 25, after over two years of negotiations, the United States and Japan concluded a historic ag

The Commerce Department reported last week that economic growth in early 1988 was at an annual rate

After 14 months of close scrutiny by the National Land Agency, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last

AFTER FOUR DECADES of military-dominated autocracy, South Korea has embarked on a new adventure. On