Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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