Commentary

ALAN GREENSPAN, President Reagan's nominee to chair the Federal Reserve Board finally got his confir

THE JAPANESE may be opening their market to U.S. semiconductor suppliers, according to the latest bo

A recent book on listening says that while we may spend most of the day doing it, we'll hear only ha

It's difficult to interview Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III. But not for the usual reasons.

THE CURRENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION continues to surprise both the pros and the armchair economists with

We have a rule at The Journal of Commerce, one pretty much ignored elsewhere in newspapering these d

Victims of industrial accidents require prompt, certain, and reasonably generous relief. But while t

DANIEL OLIVER, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, rarely passes up the chance to preach h

CONGRESS IS ITCHING to take another whack at Toshiba Corp. The Senate, angered by the evasion of con

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Without coordinated international action to reform prevailing fiscal, monetary, credit and commercia

As much as anything else, the Iran-contra scandal has demonstrated the pitfalls of a White House pol

The headline proclaimed that the United States owes more than Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina combined

THE TRADE BILL approved by the Senate Tuesday is far from perfect. But if lawmakers from the House a

No sooner have the insurance markets recovered from their worst market capacity crisis ever than the

Something has seriously gone awry in my life. I'm at mid-life (I'm not really sure of that;

CANADA'S RESTRICTIONS on trans-border trucking have become a persistent if minor irritant in relati

THE POLITICAL IMMATURITY of Asia's newly industrializing countries has been a longstanding source of

Wall Street has been off in an orbit all its own during the last few weeks. The prices of stocks, b

Dr. Samuel Johnson's dictionary defines excise as "a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudg

AMERICAN WORKERS are often the unwitting pawns in corporate restructuring. Investors and financial a

WHEN IT TAKES UP the nomination of Alan Greenspan to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board th

Export subsidies and depressed world market prices for farm products are causing diplomatic and poli

My editor called the other day and asked me to write the first installment of a monthly report on We

Frankfurter Report Was Misleading"Japan's Hot Dog Curbs Snag Frank Exchange" (July 2), conta

BARRING UNFORESEEN EVENTS, the Senate's omnibus trade bill will finally be passed on Tuesday.

When Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, it had in mind a very specific and very seriou

Back in the days when television programs came only in two colors - black and white - we kids raised

FOR THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY, already scorched by record numbers of consumer complaints, the Senate

STEEL PRICES ARE AGAIN on the rise. USX has raised the price of sheet by $25 a ton. Bethlehem Steel'

The dramatic growth in air commerce we have seen in the United States is now being repeated througho

Delaware County, N.Y., on the western edge of the Catskills, is John Burroughs country. This year th

You could call it the $10 billion differential. The U.S. and Canadian authorities who ponder

SMOKE, MIRRORS AND OPTIMISTIC revenue estimates cannot hide the fact that almost no progress has bee

When this government's top officials go to Philadelphia today for the ceremony celebrating the bicen

THE AVERAGE PRICE of gasoline in the United States hit $1 a gallon last week for the first time in

Life sometimes exhibits a strange symmetry. Within a fortnight, two giants of economic policy making

Anyone that doubts things are changing in South Africa should take a stroll through Hillbrow, the hi

THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE at the Western Union Telegraph Co. were kind enough to send us a message the

On Wednesday, July 8, the Western Economic Association sponsored a debate on ''Appointing a Fed Chai