Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the space of three weeks, the bravery and skill of 24,000 young Americans and a large portion of

The U.S. economy is sliding down the slippery slope of recession. Total employment rosea scant 0.3 p

PITY POOR KARL MARX. One after another, the governments that ruled Eastern Europe in his name have a

THERE'S A GAME THAT THEY PLAY in the trucking industry. It goes like this: First, a bunch of

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

A STRONG BILL TO COVER THE COST OF cleaning up oil spills stands on the verge of congressional passa

A recent meeting between Israeli and American government economists in Washington concluded that in

To read the latest edition of "Britain 1990," the government's official guide for foreigners to the

The longer U.S. trade deficits have persisted, the more trade friction has grown. One ofthe issues c