Commentary

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan assured Congress last week that the current recession would

PORT DREDGING NEEDS RATIONAL APPROACHYour editorial "Clearing the Water" (Feb. 4) correctly

Aircraft financing in the United States today is extremely flexible and sophisticated, in part beca

The United States has shown that it no longer will "pay any price or bear any burden" to defend its

''UNITED WE STAND, divided we fall" should be the slogan of Slavic republics seeking economic prospe

IF THE DEVIL IS IN the details, the Department of Energy may have hell to pay once Congress begins

FINANCIAL TURMOIL AMONG the world's airlines offers good examples of the right way - and the wrong w

AFTER ONLY TWO MONTHS as Federal Maritime Commission chairman, Christopher L. Koch has begun to lea

THE CLOUDS SHADOWING the suspended world trade talks began to lift last week when negotiators agreed

There's an understandable sense of national pride as we marvel at Patriot missiles in flight or watc

The Mamas and Pappas once sang about California dreaming on a winter's day. These winter days, Calif

THE UNITED STATES HAS SPENT the last 20 years searching for an energy policy that makes us less dep

The idea for a new international development bank should set off alarms for U.S. companies bidding f

Perrier, the chic drink of the 1980s, can't get its old market back. It has tried every conceivable

Freight transportation's shrinking share of the national economic pie may be mostly good news.

Much of the war materiel used by allied forces in Saudi Arabia has been transported in commercial sh

Recent information on the nation's economic performance provides mixed signals about the length and

WHEN GOVERNMENTS TRY to set the price or market share of imports and exports, productivity and growt

Japanese leaders don't like what they're hearing when they turn on their televisions and radios. It

The latest fashion among Soviet watchers is to bury Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika. But

Next to Saddam Hussein, the "credit crunch" is Washington's favorite scapegoat. Tight-fisted bankers

With Desert Storm's ground campaign approaching, allied forces will soon face weapons acquired by Ir

GOVERNMENT REGULATION HAS ITS PLACE, but the ocean freight brokering business is not one of them.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between the terms of Saddam Hussein's "cruel hoax" last week and those of th

TUCKED AWAY IN THE Bush administration's new highway spending plan is a novel concept for relieving

Congress is about to face a dilemma that will determine whether it has any significant voice in two

IT IS PAINFULLY IRONIC that as Germany struggles to rebuild the old government-controlled economy in

Chicago economist David Hale wants some credit. From his fecund mind comes this often-quoted, often-

Operation Desert Shield brought to light the consequences of neglecting our merchant marine industry

FACED WITH A SYSTEM of crumbling highways and growing travel demands, Transportation Secretary Samue

Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov's accusation Tuesday that Western banks tried to oust Presiden

''This is your local police department. If you wish to report a defective traffic signal, press one.

While no one in their right mind would suggest that U.S.-Japan relations are in great shape, a good

SHOULD ENVIRONMENTAL safeguards be included in the proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Mexico an

Every now and then, issues I write about come home and become personalized. My older son, Mi

The incentive for Canada to participate in the Mexico-U.S. free trade negotiations has both positiv

U.S. commercial banks are pulling in their horns worldwide. Despite the growing presence of U.S. cor

EUROPEAN HOPES that Yugoslav ethnic groups will patch up their differences before violence threatens

DURING ECONOMIC HARD times, it's always convenient to have someone to blame. At least one Soviet lea

Oil and water don't usually mix - but anything could happen in the current Persian Gulf crisis.<