Commentary

WITH THE 1988 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION just days away, the crucial moment in our long, drawn-out democr

Hong Kong Exports And the US DollarI was most interested to read your report about the excha

Campaigns are judged sometimes by the issues they fail to discuss. By that standard, the current pre

Since the enactment in 1978 of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment linking U.S. trade concessions to the emi

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney has been the driving force behind the path-breaking Free Trad

I spent some of the past week making the acquaintance of this season's flu virus. I don't recommend

BACK IN THE DAYS when gooey black stuff that oozed out of the ground was of interest only to people

In the coming months, labor and management undoubtedly will face some tough choices. There are few t

PUT YOUR WORK SHOES ON - we're still on the job, was President Reagan's advice to Congress Monday ni

The news from medical economics is that after seven years of the Reagan prescription for runaway cos

Alan Greenspan took the oath of office as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

Japan has been in the midst of a full-fledged real estate boom. Land and housing prices in Tokyo and

TECHNOLOGY IS the handmaiden of free trade. No matter how governments try to regulate the flow of go

Family Companies Merit ConsiderationOn Jan. 16, 1988, I watched the debate of the front-runn

Although president for only the last 10 years of his life, Chiang Ching-kuo was the undisputed leade

TALKS IN PARIS this week may lead to important steps in reducing the often petty controls that now s

AS CONGRESS GETS BACK TO BUSINESS this week, it is likely to become embroiled in one of the most voc

The worst scandal in the history of the West German nuclear industry has shaken the nation like an a

Ah, to be young again and be unburdened with the memories of history! This thought is inspired by a

CONTRARY TO A widespread impression, the U.S. trade balance in real or volume terms, which discount

THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT has finally hoisted the white flag of surrender, extending veterans' status t

SIX WEEKS BEFORE the 1984 election, President Reagan pulled off a carefully orchestrated political c

''You must realize that America is unique," Eric Hoffer told me. "In all the 50 centuries of history

''The ultimate goal of the Federal Reserve must be to stabilize the general price level." This openi

OFFICIALLY, EUROPE IS moving closer together by the day. Within five years, the remaining barriers

Looking at the zealous pro-glasnost Soviet press in the early, hopeful days of 1988 (We are now just

WATCH OUT, PILOTS! The Wild West is coming to the airways. That's the likely result if an id

Du Pont Is a 'Dog,' Not 'Pig,' in ChinaI really enjoyed your article about the Chinese Drago

SHIPPING COMPANIES and truckers have a real problem in the handling of overweight intermodal contain

I was one of nearly 56,000 people out at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium here last Sunday to watch a major

The economic relationship between the United States and Japan is important to the Association of Sou

A surprising number of presidential aspirants to this office have indicated that they might endorse

EVERYBODY'S ROOTING for exports. With a favorable exchange rate against Japanese and European curren

U.S. commercial banks, stumbling under the weight of Third World loans gone sour, may have found a w

THE JURY IS STILL OUT on whether the current efforts of Central America's presidents will bring peac

TRYING TO REGULATE the world financial market is akin to pinching a balloon: The air simply goes som

Nicholas F. Brady, erstwhile conservative Republican Senator from New Jersey, tossed President Reaga

Paraphrasing the U.S. cliche of a French maxim, the more visitors change, the more they stay the sam

The Rocky Road Of Rail MergersYour editorial "No Rock Island II" (Dec. 30) brings back a flo

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas established a committee late last month to help the district ba