Commentary

The Soviet Union is involved in a two-pronged offensive. While Moscow woos Washington in hopes of fu

EVERY TIME THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE tries to economize, it runs into trouble: No one wants his local

During the 1970s it was fashionable for economists to construct econometric models of the electoral

As I sat with our Washington transportation reporters around the the dark mahogany table in the spac

THE RISK that a protectionist trade bill could be a millstone around the neck of the Democratic Part

IMPORT PREFERENCES for developing countries are a good idea gone wrong. The original concept

Proxmire Draws Fire For Maritime ViewsSen. William Proxmire recently authored a widely circu

ATLANTA'S CITY-OWNED golf courses are operated by private businesses these days. Its tennis courts a

Critics of federal economic regulation of motor carriers recognize that the Interstate Commerce Comm

CAN THE MARKET really make the nation's expensive auto insurance system cheaper? Two leading

I'm still not sure what qualified me for the New York Financial Writers Association's annual Elliot

It may seem a long way from the missile treaty that President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba

U.S. corporations, already spending over $15 billion annually on housing benefits to recruit and rel

WHEN THEY MET in Acapulco at the end of last month, the presidents of Mexico and seven South America

THE DEPARTMENT of Justice's trust-busters have confounded the critics once again. By petitioning the

Many problems exist for exporters. A few years ago, the high U.S. dollar was blamed. Today, exporter

Omission of a word in a letter by Lucius Gilman published on this page last Friday reversed the mean

The Agriculture Department is about to announce the U.S. sugar import quota for 1988 - an event cert

The risk is rising that the U.S. economy may face a serious drop in business activity in 1988. The o

WHEN SOMEBODY OWES YOU $100, it's their worry, the saying goes. But when they owe you $1 million, it

The 1980s have not been kind to the U.S. labor movement. Labor has been forced to fight, often unsuc

THIS NEWSPAPER, like many others, frequently reports on the barriers faced by U.S. companies that wi

Hundreds of bunches of flowers still spill across the sidewalk in front of King's Cross station in L

WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN says there is no reason to expect a recession due to the stock market crash, h

Nuclear Plants Expensive to OperateThe Journal of Commerce's Nov. 10 editorial, "Nukes and P

THE TREATY OVER intermediate-range nuclear forces that President Reagan and Soviet Communist Party G

The stock market decline has had the beneficial effect of focusing greater attention on the budget d

Do you remember Procrustes, one of the great villains of Greek legend? He was the robber of

HAITI'S MILITARY RULERS are nervous, and no wonder: Their utter failure to protect the safety of can

U.S.-BASED MULTINATIONAL FIRMS have a new tax fight on their hands - a House Ways and Means Committe

The Wall Street Journal (or Brand X, as we call it around here) last week published two articles th

THE COLD FACTS of budget austerity notwithstanding, James Burnley, who took office as secretary of T

Gasoline Marketing And CompetitionI read with interest your Nov. 9 editorial, "Retailers and

There's no little irony in the fact that rags and waste paper are now the biggest exports shipped f

The maritime industry has actively pursued the goal of developing a new national maritime policy fo

SLIGHTLY MORE THAN A YEAR has passed since Congress, overriding President Reagan's veto, enacted mod

DUMPING IS ONE of the more controversial terms in the trade experts' lexicon. Technically, it means

IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG after the Oct. 19 stock market crash for the revisionist wisdom to emerge from a

As Mikhail Gorbachev prepares for an important summit meeting with President Reagan in Washington, i

MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AGO, Benjamin Franklin's original fire insurance company, The Philadelphia C