Commentary

CONGRESS IS ITCHING to take another whack at Toshiba Corp. The Senate, angered by the evasion of con

The Journal of Commerce welcomes letters to the editor. Letters intended for publication should incl

Victims of industrial accidents require prompt, certain, and reasonably generous relief. But while t

As much as anything else, the Iran-contra scandal has demonstrated the pitfalls of a White House pol

THE TRADE BILL approved by the Senate Tuesday is far from perfect. But if lawmakers from the House a

No sooner have the insurance markets recovered from their worst market capacity crisis ever than the

The headline proclaimed that the United States owes more than Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina combined

Something has seriously gone awry in my life. I'm at mid-life (I'm not really sure of that;

THE POLITICAL IMMATURITY of Asia's newly industrializing countries has been a longstanding source of

Wall Street has been off in an orbit all its own during the last few weeks. The prices of stocks, b

CANADA'S RESTRICTIONS on trans-border trucking have become a persistent if minor irritant in relati

Dr. Samuel Johnson's dictionary defines excise as "a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudg

Frankfurter Report Was Misleading"Japan's Hot Dog Curbs Snag Frank Exchange" (July 2), conta

Export subsidies and depressed world market prices for farm products are causing diplomatic and poli

My editor called the other day and asked me to write the first installment of a monthly report on We

AMERICAN WORKERS are often the unwitting pawns in corporate restructuring. Investors and financial a

WHEN IT TAKES UP the nomination of Alan Greenspan to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board th

FOR THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY, already scorched by record numbers of consumer complaints, the Senate

BARRING UNFORESEEN EVENTS, the Senate's omnibus trade bill will finally be passed on Tuesday.

Back in the days when television programs came only in two colors - black and white - we kids raised

When Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, it had in mind a very specific and very seriou

STEEL PRICES ARE AGAIN on the rise. USX has raised the price of sheet by $25 a ton. Bethlehem Steel'

You could call it the $10 billion differential. The U.S. and Canadian authorities who ponder

SMOKE, MIRRORS AND OPTIMISTIC revenue estimates cannot hide the fact that almost no progress has bee

The dramatic growth in air commerce we have seen in the United States is now being repeated througho

Delaware County, N.Y., on the western edge of the Catskills, is John Burroughs country. This year th

THE AVERAGE PRICE of gasoline in the United States hit $1 a gallon last week for the first time in

When this government's top officials go to Philadelphia today for the ceremony celebrating the bicen

THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE at the Western Union Telegraph Co. were kind enough to send us a message the

Anyone that doubts things are changing in South Africa should take a stroll through Hillbrow, the hi

Life sometimes exhibits a strange symmetry. Within a fortnight, two giants of economic policy making

For some reason, the steel industry is always the object of government's attention, if not its affec

Just when the Japanese were beginning to think that Japan bashing was at its peak in Washington, alo

INCREDIBLE AS IT MAY SEEM, a shipowner is not responsible for cargo lost or damaged because his crew

On Wednesday, July 8, the Western Economic Association sponsored a debate on ''Appointing a Fed Chai

Calls for Clarification Of Product DumpingThe Journal of Commerce deserves to be complimente

As vital as free trade with the United States may be to Canada it is not a matter of free trade at a

UNIFICATION MAY MEAN SURVIVAL for the ports along the Delaware River. The Delaware River Port Author

Nine months ago, The Journal of Commerce ran the headline Wall Street habits come to the City of Lon

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS to come out of all the political speeches by would-be presidents these days i