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February 11, 2009
Whether it’s AIG, the automakers or many of the beleaguered colossal Wall Street institutions – there’s a mantra that is repeated throughout the media – they’re too big to fail.Perhaps it’s too little too late – after bailouts for Fannie Mae,…
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February 10, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman thinks that that the stimulus package is too small ("The Destructive Center," Feb. 9). He, like many others, portrays today's recession as a major…
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February 10, 2009
If you want a preview of tactics that could be on the way in the name of curbing global warming, take a look across the pond at what they’re doing in Europe.
In Britain, Lord Puttnam, the founding chairman of the National Endowment for…
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February 10, 2009
WASHINGTON – Shares of Hope and Change, Inc. finally rose this past week on word the North American firm would spend more than $1 trillion to dig itself out of a prolonged economic downturn. Hope and Change (NYSE:HOPE), formerly the United States of…
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February 10, 2009
It’s a question we’ve all been waiting to hear answered – it just took a conservative talk radio host to ask it.
In an interview with Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, Pa., talk show host Laura Ingraham asked why he and Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan…
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February 9, 2009
President Obama has resorted to draconian fear tactics in an attempt to shore up support for an enormous stimulus package, but many FOX commentators including Steve Forbes and Ben Stein criticized the bill and Obama’s scaremongering on Feb. 7.
At…
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February 9, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Floyd Norris takes a shot at explaining "The Upside to Resisting Globalization" (Feb. 6). His shot, alas, is a blank.
While it's true that economies not integrated…
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February 6, 2009
Say goodbye to hope and change. It’s time to embrace the politics of doom and gloom.MSNBC host Contessa Brewer, in an interview that seemed a lot like a lobbying campaign for the stimulus set for a vote in the U.S. Senate, quizzed Sen. John Barrasso…
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February 6, 2009
Negativity, particularly about the economy, flows from the news media these days in a near constant stream. So it was refreshing to find a few drops of good news on NBC and in Marie Claire magazine recently.NBC “Nightly News” examined the booming…
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February 5, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Ed Glaeser wisely argues that it's a bad deal to copy ideas from the New Deal – including that of subsidizing mortgages ("The GOP Has a Dumb Mortgage Idea," Feb.…