Commentary

If America is to achieve its goal of a healthy, competitive United States merchant fleet, the govern

A stopped clock is correct twice a day. I'm certain that businesses that don't change and improve al

CASPAR WEINBERGER hasn't yet departed, but it's already clear there's a new wind blowing through the

THERE IS NO dearth of unpleasant provisions in the omnibus trade bill now pending in a congressional

IT'S TIME TO PUT SOCIAL SECURITY on the table. As negotiators nibble away at an estimated $1

The news from Washington last week read like the pages of True Confessions. Not only did Sup

Two years have now passed since Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III made his first attempts

Dennis D. Miller, author of the article Soviets Ignore Grain Pledges published on this page Tuesday,

Japan and the United States are experiencing political, economic and psychological transitions not s

The international monetary system now revolves around monetary relations between the three great eco

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL among those who would cartelize the world's trade. Now it's the turn of the tro

Wealth and Money Are Different ThingsI was astonished to read, in John Boyd's "Economic Beat

AS A CHILD GROWS, he demands the right to decide things for himself. Realistically, parents have no

Mexican elections, despite opposition challenges and charges of irregularities, have produced the un

MAINE'S VOTERS have soundly rejected efforts to close down Maine Yankee, the state's only nuclear ge

EVEN AS THE LAST commercial ship under construction in the United States slides down the ways at Wis

Don't Eliminate Oil As US Energy SourceIn a recent letter (Oct. 23), John Bartis, president

In September, the United States turned a blind eye when, for the third straight year, the Soviet Uni

Some of the highest-paid men and women in Britain - the stars of Margaret Thatcher's economic revolu

MOST PEOPLE IN BUSINESS claim to like an economic system that relies on competition. But when it com

Recapturing America's fair share of international trade involves more than duties, tariffs and debat

Most everyone knowledgeable about trade, including those who write our editorials on this page, is c

THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL continues to languish in the massive House-Senate conference. House S

SEVERAL OF AMERICA'S EUROPEAN allies are demanding that the United States close its bases in their c

WHILE YUPPIES ARE OUT spending on pasta machines they never use, their representatives in Congress a

JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT Congress was ready to deal with serious matters like railroad regulation and se

Ethiopian Food Aid Not in JeopardyThe article "Rate Hikes Threaten Famine Aid" (Oct. 20) inc

Does Arthur Laffer's famous cocktail napkin lie tattered on the floor in the wake of the market cras

Events of the last several weeks have demonstrated once again that, at least so far as financial new

YESTERDAY'S CONSERVATIVE IDEAS are becoming the pet projects of today's liberals. Or at least, so it

The similarity between the stock market crash of 1987 and that of 1929 has caused some economists an

Cutting a swath across the Pacific, the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ar

I was on a dangerous mission last weekend, the kind on which you just might cross yourself as you si

World financial markets have been at their manic-depressive best lately. Prices of practically every

It's a situation only the federal government could get itself into. On the one hand, the Uni

There were no trumpets sounding and no thundering of drums as representatives of the Association of

THE 1980s HAVE BROUGHT the world's trade negotiators face to face with issues of unprecedented compl

WASHINGTON'S BUDGET WRITERS are getting more creative by the day, coming up with gimmicks to make th

To help spur economic growth, President Reagan, Congress, the International Monetary Fund and the Wo

US Shipping Study A Rehash of TheoryThe latest U.S. Merchant Marine Study has produced a rer