Commentary

Politicians, trade policy officials and business people are overly preoccupied with Japan. Their myo

If Greece this year manages to turn around a faltering economy, it will be largely due to two 86-yea

DOUBLE BOTTOM STAND GETS HIGH MARKSAs a critic of your Oct. 17 editorial which endorsed limi

''COMMISSION HAS MEETING" is not the sort of headline newspaper editors dream about. But the Inters

CLEANING UP THE AIR can't be mandated in isolation: The costs of reducing emissions should be weighe

WASHINGTON, AFTER YEARS OF DITHERING, finally agrees that acid rain is an environmental problem. But

It's another "make or break" week for a decision on a big money increase for the International Monet

IT'S FED-BASHING TIME AGAIN on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Bush, White House spokesman Marlin Fi

Many lessons have been drawn from the continuing crisis of the savings and loan industry. Unfortuna

The Soviet Union is sliding into a deepening crisis that could shift Mikhail Gorbachev from man of t

In October, 17 experts from the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union conv

Last week's meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, of high-level representatives of the Soviet-led Council for

THE PAINS OF CONGESTION have become a routine part of air travel. Airline delays cost the economy $2

DOUBLE BOTTOMS ARE SAFETY ANSWERYour Jan. 9 editorial, "Double Bottom Doubts," presents seve

THAT MOST UNPREDICTABLE of senators, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tossed a hand grenade into the Bush ad

As tempers flare on both sides of the Pacific, the U.S.-Japan trade dispute threatens to get ugly. O

REGULATORY PROBLEMS OF RISK RETENTIONYour editorial "Insurance Warning" (Jan. 5) raises some

Last year's ethics scandals in the House were watched with a certain disdain in the Senate, a clubby

IT'S BEEN A ROUGH WEEK here at The Journal of Commerce. On Monday, as the near-collapse ofAmerican T

U.S. MEMORIES was supposed to be a model of the future. Private electronics companies in the United

World trade negotiations now under way in Geneva will conclude this year. The Uruguay Round of the G

On a Washington street corner recently, a polished Marine stood beside a tattered waif whoclutched a

Due to technical problems, H. Erich Heinemann's weekly column on the economy does not appear today.

WAS IT A MOMENT OF MADNESS on the part of Amtrak Chairman W. Graham Claytor? Last week, in announcin

Benign neglect in Washington and billions in unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch ofItaly's Ba

In Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America, Dan Quayle is an unknown. Few are aware that he is the vi

THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS DOWN but definitely not out. Two long and painful strikes not only have shown

The economic disaster faced by hundreds of villages in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria could

VISITORS ONCE AGAIN MAY STROLL through Tiananmen Square, but not much else appears to havechanged in

Transport has replaced the weather as the main topic of chit-chat among metropolitan dwellers throug

''MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS in the image area are due to the extreme bad press we saw in the coverage of

IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH to figure out how to cut the federal government's budget deficit without menti

Is Yugoslavia still a communist country? In its constitutional and institutional aspects, it is, alt

Bit by bit, the government of South Africa is attempting to change the ways it traditionally has rel

TECHNOLOGY KEEPS AMERICA STRONG and making sure that we develop enough of it to keep the United Stat

In recent decades, Japan has become an important source of major technological advances. As the West

So far, the idea of a sustained assistance program for redeveloping Eastern Europe involves mainly p

THE U.S. NAVY COULD USE A LITTLE HELP from the private sector when it comes to getting ships safely

ADMIRAL CLARIFIES FALCON TRANSACTIONFollowing up on an article ("Bureaucracy Obfuscates Falc

Tadao Sawaki, a Japanese bank executive, failed to notice two men carrying machine guns approaching