Commentary

Much is being said about the levels of public and private debt. Some of the talk is in technical lan

Germany and Japan have failed to pursue more expansionary economic policies for two reasons.

When word first leaked out that Kakuei Tanaka, 68, had refused to see ruling party Secretary Genera

WILL THE HIGHWAY BILL falter again this year, as it did last year, over the issue of the 55 mph spee

Progress on political and economic reforms in China is likely to be frozen until the Communist Party

WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. According to an article in American Heritage magazine, Winston Churchill dro

After six years of advocating free trade, the great policy surprise of 1987 may be an embracing of t

Figures about the international trade deficit, especially the deficit with Japan, are in the newspap

I have been warned that the part of London in which I live is in danger of becoming, in terms of der

''THE MALTESE FALCON," with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, is the latest old movie to be subjected

LOST AMID THE COMMOTION about the plunging dollar and the U.S.-European Community trade scuffle is t

The rise of industrial robots is irresistible and irreversible. They are getting better and cheaper.

In Dick Lawrence's excellent article (JofC, Jan. 12) highlighting the crucial role of the United St

IN "THE GUNS OF AUGUST," Barbara Tuchman tells how in 1914 a minor political incident in an small Ba

THERE'S GOOD NEWS on the trade front, right? Well, perhaps. The figures forDecember put the

If you call Van Doorn Ooms in Washington, a recorded voice comes on the line and repeats a couple of

The last two years have been the worst ever for the international shipping fraternity , and there ar

''The federal deficit is outrageous," President Reagan declared in his State of the Union address th

The corporate critics trying to follow the story line in the Great Tax Reform Act of 1986 are pannin

Gary Wills' book, "Reagan's America: Innocents at Home," was in print and on the way to bookstores

Moonlighting appears to be more widespread in Denmark than ever before, despite efforts by the tax a

In a seedy office in a rundown, second-floor walk-up here, the computer software business appears to

THE PAPERWORK MOUNTAIN, like a newly formed volcano, is rising another few thousand feet. Within th

Karl Otto Poehl, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, has laid it on the line. Under relentless pre

AS A TELEVISION EVENT, which is how it must be evaluated, President Reagan's State of the Union add

Foreign investors have become a powerful influence in the U.S. money and capital markets. Du

The link between food supply and political stability is as old as history. Egyptian pharaohs stored

THE STRIKE ON THE Long Island Rail Road, the nation's biggest commuter rail line, hardly looms large

JAPAN'S DECISION TO ABANDON, if only by a tiny fraction, its policy of limiting its defense budget t

WE HAVE GENERALLY HIGH REGARD for Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III. But when he begs us,

It was a quiet week here in Washington. Some of the relative stillness was due to the two sn

Rail Merger Expected To Benefit ShipperYour editorial "Needed: A Larger Look" (JofC, Dec. 4)

THE WIDOW OF PIONEER ASTRONAUT Virgil I. Gus" Grissom is urging the survivors of the seven dead Chal

The big winner of the Sunday West German election was the Greens, the left radical party that oppose

The mounting U.S. trade deficit with Japan has sparked increasing criticism in Congress and the medi

ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, most experiments in loading cargo directly from ships totrains ended i

THE NEW YORK CHAPTER of the Alumni Association of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy did something unu

The president and Congress missed three big opportunities for reform in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.<

HAVING GOBBLED UP all the easy takeovers, the wolves are now circling Pan American World Airways. A

As the fallout from the Guinness affair continues, the British government is doing everything it can