Commentary

Superficially, it would be easy to see the British government's approval of a merger of the state-ow

It was once said that "free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a

I'd like the commend The Journal of Commerce on the policy it has begun with regard to unemployed pe

I have never quite taken The New Yorker magazine seriously. Part of its attraction, I suspect, when

A LONG-SOUGHT INTERNATIONAL ACCORD on foreign export credit subsidies may finally be at hand.

WE WERE PASSING the Merrill Lynch building the other night when a familiar figure stepped out in fr

THEY SAY PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, but in trade negotiations with the Japanese, U.S. trade officials hav

We've have seen a lot of hokum and smoke out of Washington through the years, but the recent congres

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S innovative interpretation of the Antiballistic Missiles Treaty, it is wi

LIKE KING CANUTE, the finance ministers of the five leading industrialized countries will meet in P

Since the beginning of September some 300 or so people in Britain have found themselves readers of t

Reporter's Reference To Sinking UnfairI refer to your article datelined Chesapeake, Va., (Jo

If there is one trade legislative proposal on which almost everyone seems agreed, it is to give U.S.

About this time every year, the Congressional Budget Office presents the House and Senate budget com

''People in foreign countries have been 'America-watching' for years," says Dr. Eugene Mendonsa of t

A CADRE OF FREE MARKET ENTHUSIASTS meets in Washington today to launch what has become an annual ca

Six years after the second oil shock, Saudi Arabia and the other wealthy Arab kingdoms along the Per

My calculator must need new batteries; these figures just don't make sense. With these words Miss Na

THE ENERGY BUSINESS HAS BECOME increasingly competitive over the past few years. If you don't believ

GUY F. TOZZOLI IS RETIRING from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after 40 years with th

Wanted: One senior executive to oversee the most exciting civil engineering project of the century.<

On the same day OPEC announced it would cut crude oil production and raise prices to $18 a barrel, a

ONE CALL FOR THE WHOLE HAUL. That's how Hays T. Watkins, chairman and chief executive officer of CSX

I knew I was back home in San Francisco when driving into the city from the airport along Junipero S

IS THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION really committed to helping U.S. exporters? Some businessmen have doubt

HOW TOUGH ARE THE JAPANESE when it comes to trade negotiations? To hear Glen S. Fukushima tell it,

''We have to forge our future, instead of waiting for it to happen," the soft-spoken, lightly bearde

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker have for some time b

It's no contest when the colossal comes up against the merely sensible on the political playing fiel

AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL trend toward protectionism is the issue of jobs. For a politician, a prot

OH, THOSE SLY FELLOWS, your congressman and mine. It was bad enough when they failed to knock down t

As part of its ongoing but thus far relatively ineffectual efforts to defend its sovereignty in the

When the Iran arms-contra aid scandal first began making headlines in November, many experienced Was

THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY CAN WORK in a deregulated environment or a totally regulated one, but not in so

The global grain situation is beginning to rebound, as evidenced by increased import demand by China

ONE CAN ONLY APPLAUD the cooperative effort by the Maryland Port Administration and the Internationa

Why doesn't the United States export more? The answer is complicated but can be summarized along the

In a sense, the cargo preference laws have never been stronger. The decisions of the U.S. District

The major reshuffle of the Greek government is seen in Athens as confirmation that Prime Minister An

Years ago, I read a book that outlined a highly successful method of forecasting the stock market.