Commentary

Brussels is suffering from another bout of political schizophrenia. As the capital of the Eu

CONFLICTS IN NATIONAL LAWS are a constant problem for companies operating in international trade. A

A NEW DEPRESSION is highly unlikely, but economist Herbert Stein warns it could happen if we don't

THE TROUBLED SOUTHEAST ASIAN nation of Malaysia needs all the help it can get in Washington. But at

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE may never win a popularity contest among customhouse brokers, but even brok

The 100th Congress, we were told, was to be dedicated to countering unfair practices by our trading

In the 1960s, Time Magazine ran the headline Is God Dead? screaming across its cover. God st

THE FIASCO IN the financial markets this month has generated precious little in the way of optimism.

Hormone Safety Issue Has Been AddressedYour editorial, "Hot Words on Hormones," which appear

Facing a nearly $170 billion trade deficit, the United States is searching for ways to get out from

It's hard to believe, but Elmhurst, Queens, where I grew up, once was a place of large, stately tree

AS THE WAR on international shipping in the Persian Gulf continues, the United States has taken two

CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION may not have agreed on the tune, but they both have the same dance s

There may be a little of the Reagan luck left: In the last week the president saw the prospects for

The recent signing of a proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement has ignited a political storm of e

As it meets in Beijing this week, the Chinese Communist Party Congress will reaffirm the change in t

It may have started by the use of a four-letter word - the most emotion- charged of all such words.<

Do we need Shipping Act regulation and antitrust immunity for ports and terminals? Or could they fun

As Wall Street starts to clear the debris from the earthquake in stocks, agonizing reappraisals are

THE UNITED STATES and Japan are near agreement on opening up construction of the $8.5 billion Kansai

THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH of the short-line railroad industry has been one of the economic mysteries of t

The four middle-of-the road parties that form the Swiss government emergedfrom the national

There is one indisputable reason why a new, comprehensive national trade policy must be put into pla

THE AFL-CIO HAS TAKEN one more step to unite the House of Labor. Thirty years after expelling the In

Once upon a time there were two clans, the Hatfields and the McKawas. The Hatfields, though

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S COMMISSION on Merchant Marine and Defense, appointed lastDecember to asse

THE NORWEGIAN POLICE REPORT of widespread export control violations by West European machine tool ma

SEVERAL THOUSAND unsettled trucking executives arrive in New York this week to take stock of their i

The U.S. Senate has begun its debate on the restructuring of Medicare to provide catastrophic health

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Transportation, an avid promoter of bigger airlines, has finally found a merg

Robert Brusca, chief economist at Nikko Securities Co. International in the Wall Street financial di

EVERY SO OFTEN, Washington's hucksters offer painless new remedies for budgetary ailments. The lates

THE CROWDED NORTHEAST has little liking for nuclear power. Two completed nuclear generating stations

It is well known that the union movement in the United States has suffered a serious decline in memb

Energy Independence Must Be US PriorityAs recent articles show, our nation's foreign policie

When George Bush surprised absolutely no one by announcing a week or two ago that he would be a cand

As we begin a new round of trade negotiations in Geneva, the political debate over U.S. agricultural

Are Alan Greenspan's first two months in office a sign of things to come? I hope not. Bond prices ha

OVER THE CENTURIES, seafarers in cramped shipboard quarters have followed a simple rule: When you're

AS EXTREME FREE-MARKET economic ideas have prospered in recent years, a new understanding of financi