Commentary

FOUR PROPOSALS FOR A FEDERAL product liability law have passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee

Let the raw, ugly truth out. We would rather, as a nation, spill the blood of our own youth to prote

The Iraq crisis reveals two contradictory aspects of America's role in the post-Cold War world. At t

It was, the television commentators kept reminding us Sunday, the first all- American men's final in

A MORE ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY is the best assurance that sharp increases in fuel prices, such as t

CHAMBER ISN'T BUSH'S MOUTHPIECEIn H. Erich Heinemann's Sept. 5 Opinion piece ("Hussein Is th

CHANGE IN THE SOVIET UNION has gone further and faster than anyone thought possible when Mikhail Gor

THE STIFF FINES AND HIGH financial liability allowed by the new federal oil spill law will punish t

Query: In the past three months, non-farm employment in the United States (A) rose 48,000 or (B) fel

The Middle East crisis looks at first glance like an economic godsend for Mexico, whose oil-rich eco

Finance ministers from around the globe will start arriving here next week for the 45th joint meetin

''THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY is my friend," the proverb goes. Following that wisdom, however, has led th

WHILE THE ACTORS in Washington's budget drama continue to recite their lines, a new bipartisan scrip

If we are to believe a number of recent media reports, a new era is dawning in ground passenger tran

BONDING OF NVOS SHOULD BE REQUIREDYour editorial concerning H.R. 5206, the proposed bonding

John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook the World" chronicled the Soviet Union's first revolution, but tho

BRAZIL ISN'T NORMALLY A COUNTRY one would turn to for economic advice; the economic programs of Braz

By the standards applied to most mortals, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is doing a pre

Like most good ideas, Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers' proposal at the European Community's Dublin

THE MILITARY BUILDUP in the Persian Gulf is straining U.S.-flag commercial shipping. But even as it

AS THE BANKING INDUSTRY'S financial condition weakens, bank regulators are beginning to get tough. T

After a decade of deregulation, is the Interstate Commerce Commission likely to impose stiff new rat

THE SOVIET UNION DESPERATELY needs aid and investment from Japan, but it wants it free and clear. Th

OCEAN ENERGY IS AS GOOD AS IT SOUNDSThis is in response to the article "Geothermal Power Deb

The father of free market economics, Adam Smith, once said that the true cost of anything is the to

Washington and Tokyo voiced mutual satisfaction with the Structural Impediments Initiative, which en

MORE THAN 4,500 PEOPLE WILL DIE this year in highway accidents involving large trucks. Speeding, as

AS NEGOTIATIONS ON NEW RULES for international trade head toward their climax, warning lights are st

NAUTICAL 'ANTIQUES' ARE VITAL TO DEFENSEI am writing in response to Rep. William S. Broomfie

As one of my students observed in late 1989, "history seems to have sped up." At such times, the yea

IN A YEAR OF DIPLOMATIC SURPRISES, none is more astonishing than this week's visit to South Korea by

Robert Bork remarked ruefully the other day that "it took Saddam Hussein to get Judge David Souter

Although we have plenty of agricultural surpluses around and do not lack the confidence to tell the

Considering that several years ago enthusiastic hackers began breaking into computer systems worldwi

THE NOT-IN-MY-BACKYARD syndrome has made it all but impossible to build power plants in the Northeas

THE FACTS SUPPORT TEXTILE BILL PASSAGEThe Journal of Commerce attacks the Associated Press f

THERE IS NO END, IT SEEMS, to the stream of anti-competitive legislation put forth in Congress under

THE DEATH OF 23 WORKERS in a Texas chemical plant explosion last October was a tragedy. But the Occu

For the first time in almost a month, the Middle East crisis was swept off the front pages of Britai

In recent months all East European countries have experimented with market elements. State enterpris