Commentary

IT'S NO SURPRISE that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's sales tax plan was rejected by the

Tax on Gasoline Not the AnswerYour editorial Rosty Buys the "Gas Tax (JofC March 26) says th

SINCE 1980, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S reporting of the nation's trade statistics has been a very peculia

A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT here holds that little progress will be made soon to knock down the legal and ad

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT is making a big mistake. Under the reputedly pragmatic James A. Bake

I was talking with my Journal of Commerce colleague Larry Kaufman about the state of the railroad in

Shirley Williams, the British politician, listening recently to a group of bankers was reminded of a

Not in more than a decade has a member of Congress reaped such publicity from a trade proposal as ha

Through January of this year, creditor governments, multilateral financial institutions and, to a le

It's good to know that the broadcast writers and their bosses are getting together again. I

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, fresh from its Form W-4 disaster, is determined to regard the taxpayer

THE DECISION BY INTERIOR Secretary Donald Hodel to recommend opening the 1.5 million acre Coastal Pl

This letter responds to an article entitled "Second Evergreen Accident in Two Weeks Wrecks Crane" ap

OLD-AGE PENSIONERS, who receive Social Security checks, have been urged in recent years to have the

How good were the good old days? I've recently come across two items that in different ways

AS LONG AS A CENTURY AGO, sailors told of seeing an ominous apparition of a full-rigged ship near th

SOME SAY IT'S TACKY to get married in Las Vegas, but for Lorraine and Robert Page the affair was ent

Last Friday President Reagan finally imposed strong trade sanctions against Japan in an attempt to p

Financial markets were buffeted last week by an unusual crop of spurious economic statistics. Accord

The role that trade played in the 1986 elections and what impact, if any, it will have in the 1988

The Japanese call it the project of the century - and they may well be right. The project, involving

THE QUESTION of whether ocean ship lines that retain stevedoring firms to load and unload their ves

IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET fight, Democrats and Republicans accuse each other of using smoke and mirrors

At a time when British industry's prospects are looking promising, many companies are worried that g

South Africa is losing what it takes to make a nation thrive and prosper. Competent people keep leav

MANY CONSUMERS ARE DOING WITH CREDIT just what the tax-law changes were intended to have them do. An

Canada has never figured large in the U.S. view of the world. Perhaps that's why the ongoing free tr

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE for the depreciated dollar to help the United States cut its trade deficit in

THE TRADE FIGURES released last week are surely troublesome, but more disturbing still is the panic

More on press agents I have known. Last week I had reached discussion of Category Four, Mr. Cute, th

KUWAIT'S DECISION TO charter Soviet oil tankers to transport crude out of the Persian Gulf is yet an

In the 40s and 50s, the movie theaters used to show "sing along" films. Words to a song would appea

WE WERE HUSTLING down Wall Street one recent day when two young ladies blocked our path. "Ca

(First of Two Articles) The recent filing of Chapter 11 proceedings by United States Lines c

FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN, surely one of the most painful aspects of his decision to impose $300 million

The Reagan administration's punitive trade action against Japan for continuing to sell microchips be

25 cents Gasoline Tax Proposed in Calif.Since you have previously expressed support for incr

EVEN WITHOUT CIGAR IN HAND, Paul Volcker talks sense. The Federal Reserve Board chairman was

On March 27, the Reagan administration took an unprecedented action against an important friend and

The crisis in Britain's schools is starting to be felt in industry where serious skill shortages are