Commentary

The rapid spread of that modern-day plague, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is causing well-fou

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Insider trading may be an uncomfortable subject on Wall Street these days. But that is certainly not

Twenty-five years ago, most Americans would not have wondered whether the number of their fellow cou

House and Senate conferees soon will meet to work out details of final trade legislation. There will

THE CONTINUED UNREST in the Republic of Panama confronts the United States with a difficult challeng

Journal of Commerce publisher Don Becker recently pointed out (July 8) the potential threat to the a

Shippers Holding Out For Hamburg RulesYour editorial "New Rules at Sea" (July 15), suggestin

The phony trade war between the United States and the European Community is coming to an end with bo

COMMERCE SECRETARY MALCOLM BALDRIGE, who was killed Saturday while practicing his passion of calf-ro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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