Commentary

The steel industry is an industry in crisis. Steel producers need to streamline and modernize but co

They are talking about raising the Monitor, the Union ironclad that lies on the bottom off Cape Hatt

Canada has the most to gain from free trade with the United States, but protectionist sentiment pers

Jones Act Measure Is Not ProtectionistThis letter is in response to your editorial entitled,

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THE COMMUTER AIRLINE INDUSTRY has demonstrated notable improvements in safety in recent years. But t

The eminent philosopher Casey Stengel taught us that: "They say you can't do it; but sometimes it do

If opinion polls were votes and a federal election were held today, you would have to color Canada p

Preventing the circumvention of penalties imposed for unfair trading practices has posed a difficult

BOND MARKETS MAY BE unpredictable, but they can always be counted on for a fast reaction. No sooner

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION'S decision Wednesday not to reopen hearings on the proposed merge

BY EASING RESTRICTIONS on the employment of Mexican farm workers in the United States, the U.S. Imm

There are three major barriers to a sustained improvement in security prices in the United States: (

Many Russians doubt that Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika, or economic restructuring, will

AS THE SAYING GOES, He who pays the piper calls the tune. For years, U.S. defense contractors have b

A few of Japan's most prominent financial leaders are now privately expressing worries about the sha

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S impressive program of economic and political reform poses a majorforeign policy

Jacques Santer, the prime minister of Luxembourg, can be excused for feeling smug this week as the l

In hearings earlier this year, some members of the Senate Finance Committee expressed the feeling th

THE RECENT DEATHS of two of the United States' most prominent economists, Walter W. Heller and Arth

US Training Program In Panama DecriedWhat a wonderful country we live in! In a recent articl

JAMES MILLER, THE PRESIDENT'S budget director, drinks from a coffee mug labeled Boss," with a list o

DEREGULATING NATURAL GAS has proven to be one of the trickiest undertakings of the Reagan administra

What is a worse disease than AIDS? Confidentiality. Man one day will undoubtedly find a cure for AID

Dole: GOP Race Wide Open WASHINGTON BUREAUVICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH may still enjoy a lead

Those who favor reforming the international monetary system often argue that a return to fixed excha

COMPETITIVENESS, LIKE MOTHERHOOD and apple pie, is hard to be against. Judged by the words they use,

FINANCIALLY STRAPPED states are endlessly creative when it comes to raising revenue. Business taxes

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under way in Geneva will be vastly differentfrom the previo

Unless Congress adopts a rational pro-competitive regulatory policy forfinancial services, t

This is a story about Ensign and later Lieutenant Donald Pretzel, USNR. That's not his real name, bu

On television newsreels and in the official reports of the World Bank, Africa is always portrayed as

''If you really want to do something and work hard enough, you can do it. Here in America, you have

Postwar federal support for technological research often has left one critical research area an orph

ANYBODY CAN MAKE A MISTAKE, but the Department of Justice's admitted mistake in the General Dynamics

WHAT A DIFFERENCE two weeks make! When the leaders of the seven largest market economies met in Veni

THE TWO AILING GIANTS of the bus business, Greyhound Lines Inc. and Trailways Corp., are proposing t

The core functions of government are frequently cited in the extensive list of programs that compri

Wall Street has a head start on its traditional summer rally. The stock market has posted a new hig

Dumping, the Senate Committee on Finance has informed us, is one of the "most pernicious practices