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May 14, 2010
Editor, The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman asserts that "taxes have lagged behind spending partly thanks to a deliberate political strategy, that of 'starve the beast': conservatives have…
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March 29, 2010
29 March 2010
Editor, The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman writes that "we used to have a workable system for avoiding financial crises, resting on a combination of government guarantees and…
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March 2, 2010
News Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir or Madam:
Interviewed this morning by Bruce Alan and Mike Moss, economist Robert Shapiro explained that the "swipe fees" that credit-card issuers charge merchants each time merchants' customers pay…
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January 14, 2010
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Regarding "Tens of thousands feared dead" (Jan. 14): The ultimate tragedy in Haiti isn't the earthquake; it's that country's lack of economic freedom. The earthquake…
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January 14, 2010
13 January 2010
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Helen Ashworth writes that "Our current economic crisis is worse than the Great Depression" (Letters, Jan. 13). She's wrong. By no measure - rate of unemployment; decline in GDP; length of the…
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September 16, 2009
Editor, Financial Times
Clyde Prestowitz makes his case for higher tariffs by slaying a strawman ("Obama can help free trade with tariffs," Sept. 10). According to Prestowitz, the case for free trade rests on "the assumptions that the markets are…