Commentary

WITH BARELY A YEAR remaining in Ronald Reagan's term of office, much of the administration is alread

BRAZIL, AS ITS CITIZENS are fond of saying, is the nation of tomorrow. A more accurate description,

The ultimate goal of the Federal Reserve must be to stabilize the general price level. The success o

NEW YORK'S LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO., financially troubled due both to its own mistakes in building t

Have you ever noticed how you usually can irritate or at least frustrate people who naturally talk i

Now that the budget negotiations have been concluded, a number of voices can be heard in the United

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE is considering a new try at reducing port shopping - importers and shippers

NEGOTIATORS HAVE DOTTED the i's and crossed the t's on the free trade agreement between the United S

Nearly a decade has elapsed since our government launched the grand experiment in deregulation. We c

My first job in financial journalism, assisting one of the great financial columnists of his time, e

MONEY WASN'T THE ONLY THING LOST in the stock market crash. With it, discretion went out the door on

Import Restraints Still Needed on SteelOnce again, The Journal of Commerce has sprung into p

SOUTH KOREA'S military government has won a victory, but it might prove a pyrrhic victory. The overw

It's the week after the summit, a sort of euphoria plus seven days. The stars and stripes an

MOTORISTS ACCEPT the economic necessity of big trucks traveling interstate highways, but a fresh set

BORED WITH LIFE and desirous of more public attention than is readily available to unemployed former

Exports are the lifeblood of the U.S. agricultural sector. Currently, about one-third of U.S. produc

In recent months the problem of financing post-retirement health care for Americans has become the m

The chairman of the board (Gorbachev, that is, not Sinatra) came to Washington last week. As expecte

Anyone who suggested even a year ago that Japan might soon become a major importer of bottled foreig

AND THE WINNER is . . . Nevada! Impressed by the Sagebrush State's broad stretches of desert, its sm

IF ECONOMIC FORECASTING can be characterized as gazing into a crystal ball, the current dilemma for

Everything has to come from someplace - and, according to the Customs laws of the United States, eve

ONE LOOK IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR on a rainy day is enough to convince most Americans that tractor-tr

It seems as though federal budget deficits, like some fiscal Methuselah, have been around for a mill

Clearing the Air On Oil Export PlanIn your editorial, "Why Limit Oil Exports?" (Nov. 16), yo

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV sure made a hit on his visit to Washington last week - pressing the flesh on Conne

The Soviet Union is involved in a two-pronged offensive. While Moscow woos Washington in hopes of fu

EVERY TIME THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE tries to economize, it runs into trouble: No one wants his local

During the 1970s it was fashionable for economists to construct econometric models of the electoral

As I sat with our Washington transportation reporters around the the dark mahogany table in the spac

THE RISK that a protectionist trade bill could be a millstone around the neck of the Democratic Part

IMPORT PREFERENCES for developing countries are a good idea gone wrong. The original concept

Proxmire Draws Fire For Maritime ViewsSen. William Proxmire recently authored a widely circu

ATLANTA'S CITY-OWNED golf courses are operated by private businesses these days. Its tennis courts a

Critics of federal economic regulation of motor carriers recognize that the Interstate Commerce Comm

CAN THE MARKET really make the nation's expensive auto insurance system cheaper? Two leading

I'm still not sure what qualified me for the New York Financial Writers Association's annual Elliot

It may seem a long way from the missile treaty that President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba

U.S. corporations, already spending over $15 billion annually on housing benefits to recruit and rel