Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For some reason, the steel industry is always the object of government's attention, if not its affec

Just when the Japanese were beginning to think that Japan bashing was at its peak in Washington, alo

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

INCREDIBLE AS IT MAY SEEM, a shipowner is not responsible for cargo lost or damaged because his crew

Calls for Clarification Of Product DumpingThe Journal of Commerce deserves to be complimente

As vital as free trade with the United States may be to Canada it is not a matter of free trade at a

UNIFICATION MAY MEAN SURVIVAL for the ports along the Delaware River. The Delaware River Port Author

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS to come out of all the political speeches by would-be presidents these days i

Nine months ago, The Journal of Commerce ran the headline Wall Street habits come to the City of Lon

THE BUZZWORD OF THE YEAR, for anyone who has been living in a cave and missed it, is competitiveness

I asked John Arwood what made him successful in the transportation industry. There are not too many

With Congress in the midst of a historic debate on the direction of U.S. trade policy, a parallel de

A HEADLINE in Friday's Journal of Commerce is worth repeating. It read: Trade Receives Littl

A KEY HOUSE MEMBER promises a floor fight over the controversial question of when legal fees can be

IN ITS CONTINUING QUEST for import protection, Ford Motor Co. has once again gone on the offensive.<

As demands for the ouster of Panama's strong-man, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, grow louder and more

Windows were broken, chimneys were toppled and buildings swayed throughout 16 states of the Midwest