Commentary

Just as we look with horror at galley slavery or inhuman steerage accommodations of the past, our 2

Despite the recent improvement in the monthly trade numbers, the United States will have to attract

Inflation, most people know now, is easier to fall into than jump out of. This statement has

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan scored a personal triumph last week. In his maiden eff

NOBODY LIKES noisy airports. But new pressures to put the lid on airport noise threaten to do grave

IT'S A TRUISM of economics that investors put their money where they think it will generate the grea

President Reagan last week unveiled an EXPORT NOW program to help excite businesses around the count

Only six years ago what is now the National Freight Consortium, Europe's largest trucking group, was

WHAT STARTED OUT as a minor change in procedure has landed the Federal Maritime Commission in a lega

Customs Itself Poses Brokers' Big ProblemI read with a great deal of interest the report by

U.S. COMPANIES MAY BE LOSING as much as $61 billion a year because our good trading buddies are pira

Initially hailed as a major breakthrough in managing the debt crisis, the debt relief plan devised b

I'm uneasy about Pat Robertson's campaign for the presidency. I think I am not alone. Mr. Ro

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY James Burnley's initial round of congressional appearances on the DOT budge

The two primary entities of our maritime industry are the commercial fleet and the shipyards. The de

WHEN IT COMES to praying in public, the United States is a leading member of the Church of Free Trad

IF YOU ASK a wrong question, you're likely to get a wrong answer. That axiom fits nothing mo

ELSEWHERE ON THIS PAGE, Transportation Secretary James Burnley takes issue with a recent editorial q

Inaccuracies Marred Airbus ArticleA recent article on Airbus (Jan. 25) contains a number of

The economic depression plaguing world commerce and trade for the past seven years has had particula

WITH THE RELEASE last week of President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget, we have another achievement fro

There is little, if any, support in Australia for a free trade agreement with the United States.

IT'S BEEN FOUR LONG YEARS since the United States first voiced its objections to Brazil's nationalis

OVER THE VIGOROUS objections of the Justice Department, Congress is about to pass a bill that repudi

Let's start with a small confession. A few days before the New Hampshire primary, a friend asked me

Since the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was established after World War II, the role

The Public Broadcasting System in December and January aired the The Politics of Food, which touched

WHY IS THE ECONOMY slowing down? The answer, claims the Economic Report of the President, is to be f

President Reagan sent Congress his seventh and, for practical purposes, final budget last week. The

For an economy originally developed on the premise of a continually abundant labor supply, it is som

Did you know that President Reagan signed the free trade deal with Canada on Jan. 2 without dressing

IT MAY BE BOUND IN BABY BLUE, but the Economic Report of the President, the annual volume in which t

After the fall of the dollar and the crash of Oct. 19, many commentators have argued that a new trad

Soviet Human Rights: Arbitrariness PrevailsIf Thomas H. Naylor's Jan. 28 column Unlink Emigr

After the successful summit meeting of the European Community earlier this month, West Germany has e

AT LONG LAST, the Interstate Commerce Commission has seen fit to intervene in the stormy affairs of

THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE PUBLICITY about Senate-House conferees' work on one of the more controversi

All generalizations are wrong, including this one. If a person is going to generalize in pri

PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS who were too heavily invested in the stock market on Oct. 19 might think

I find few things better when having a week off than to read books by my intellectual betters while