Commentary

We need to impose disciplines and practices that will foster reasonable, but not excessive, debt cre

Like other Western industrial states, Canada has, in recent years, embarked on the privatization roa

US Defense Lacks Mobility, CredibilityLet's be clear about one fact. It costs money for a de

MUCH HAS BEEN MADE of the transition of the U.S. economy from manufacturing to services. But somethi

A half-dozen years ago, U.S. businessmen were eager to cash in on a seeming Chinese bonanza.

AFTER 150 YEARS of not being able to do so, members of the House of Representatives soon should be a

HOW Claims Article On Court Case WrongAn article in your paper (JofC, Oct. 7) described the

We cannot, and we will not, let this stop us from getting on with the business of governing.

QUESTION: WHEN IS A BUDGET not a budget? Answer: When it is the document President Reagan sends to

AS THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION casts about for scapegoats to this nation's projected $170 billion trad

The publishing industry daily delivers to U.S. consumers a product almost as ubiquitous as the air w

Deficient as the Common Market may still be in many ways, particularly with regard to non-tariff bar

National security - free world security - is as much if not more dependent on economic stability as

With over 50 joint ventures with the West, Hungary provides an excellent example for the Soviets to

QUOTAS AND OTHER PROTECTIONIST devices work, but most often in ways opposite to those intended. That

The time has come for the United States and South Korea to re-examine their trade relationship. Fail

It is not unusual for Britain's trades unions to differ with the Conservative party - particularly w

BY NOW THE LATIN AMERICAN DEBT situation is deeply ingrained in the consciousness of the U.S. busine

What other steps can the United States take that will reduce both the trade deficit and federal budg

DO QUOTAS WORK? Recent evidence from the steel industry gives every indication that the voluntary re

I like Jude Wanniski. I probably like him best because his Media Guide, which his company Polyconomi

French Bank Official to Head IMF MICHEL CAMDESSUS, the Bank of France governor, is expected

KELLY GRAY of Hamburg, N.J., got a stern warning from the Internal Revenue Service the other day. Fa

Unexpected news from the Nazi-Soviet battle front 45 years ago stunned the Western world. Hitler's t

One casualty of the Iran-Contra arms controversy may well be Reagan-inspired initiatives in the Cari

THERE IS A LOT OF EXCITEMENT in the international financial community these days about using debt/eq

Trade Legislation Held Needed in 1987Senate Democratic leaders have asserted that trade legi

WALL STREET HAS ALWAYS been fair game for cartoonists and Congress. The Ivan Boesky insider trading

The Chief of Naval Operations of the Department of the Navy recently released the results of a stud

Your editorial, "Costly Customs Mandate," (JofC, Oct. 28) used the proper adjective, "relentless," t

IT'S AN EMOTIONAL ISSUE, affecting the lives of thousands of families, and it's sure to emerge again

How do we solve the trade deficit? The best, fairest suggestion I've heard of is for the Uni

The laissez faire days on Wall Street are probably over. A great many of us in the Congress

WHAT'S A HUNG JURY? Or a lame duck president? Or a political landslide? Why does someone say "Sorry,

It is almost two years since deadly methyl isocynate gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in Bho

It is becoming increasingly clear that the rise in the U.S. trade deficit over the past five years p

INCLUDED IN THE NEW "master contracts" between North Atlantic shipping associations and the Internat

NORTHERN IRELAND. The very words conjure images of violence. But the despair in the six coun

The LDC debt crisis is usually supposed to involve loans from private banks, especially in the Unite

WHAT SOME ARE CALLING a leadership crisis in the Reagan administration is taking place amid signs th