Martingevans
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Mortgage Help
Mr Nocera is correct in asserting that widely held mortgages anduninvolved servicers are responsible for the failure to modifymortgages with the consequent... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Surely Professor Glaeser Knows the Answer to His Question...
Surely Professor Glaeser knows the answer to his question: Why put knives to the census? (Boston Globe, June 28, 2012: A19)The cuts passed by the house are of... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Liberty Mutual
Mr. Syre is quite correct, the policy holders and owners of LibertyMutual are quite powerless to affect the fate of the Company (TedKelly's pay shocking on... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Darw Down Oil Reserves
So the US and Europe are considering releasing oil from the strategic reserve in order to cut gas prices (Global Agreement Said to Be Near on Drawing From Oil... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Responses to Questions the Justices Asked About Obamacare
Memo to Justice Kennedy who asked: "Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?"Interstate commerce exists when uninsured New Hampshire residents, living... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Death by Order of Your President
t is very rarely that I agree with John Sununu. Today he has it exactly right (Boston Globe, March 19, 2012: A11)!To attack and kill American citizens is an... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Let Romney Be Romney
The reason Republicans are lukewarm (Cartoon, Economist, March10, 2012: 14) toward Romney is that his business experience is irrelevant to the problems being... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Dialog on Campaign Financing
DialogIt is hard to argue that more speech is not better than less speech; yet that is what the Supreme Court decided last year in the case of Arizona Free... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Romney
Like Brian McGrory, I think that the post-big dig disaster period was Governor Romney's finest hour (Shrinking Candidate, Boston Globe, March 2, 2012: B1).It wa... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
A Better Way to Buy Politicians
Lindsay Mark Lewis aims at the wrong target in the op-ed, "A Better Way to Buy Politicians" (New York Times, February 17th., 2012: A23).The question is not how... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Dont Mind the Gap
I do mind the gap.In his op-ed piece, Andrew Kohut ignores the problems that both rich and poor have in countries and other jurisdictions with high inequality... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
The I-word
Professor Rogoff does not make a persuasive case that all of us will be better off in the long run if inflation is allowed to rise to 6% per year (The I-Word,... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
Faires, Witches, and Supply and Demand
Another way for Motoko Rich to frame the analysis of children's stories would be in terms of inculcating motivational tendencies in young readers (Fairies,... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Supercommittee: Jockeying
So there is jockeying around who is to be appointed to the deficit reduction committee (Republicans and Democrats begin Jockeying Anew in Next Phase of Budget... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Debt Deal
The time has come for the business owners and managers of America to stand up and prove that the "confidence fairy" skeptics like Paul Krugman are wrong. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
Leaders' Wives in NH.
I read with interest your piece about the Presidential and Vice-Presidential spouses visiting the homecoming of NH National Guard troops in Concord NH... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
Amazon Takes On California
Why do we have to deal with the internet sales tax problem in a piecemeal, state by state fashion (Amazon takes on California, New York Times, July 14, 2011: B1... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
Read My Lips: No New Taxes
Mr. Norquist is eloquent in telling us that spending is out of control (Read My Lips: No New Taxes, New York Times, July 222, 20111: A19). However he does not... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
For a Couple, Strauss-Kahn Is a Case for Silence
Re: For a Couple, Strauss-Kahn Is a Case for Silence, New York Times, June 20, 2011:A20.I have one simple question: Why didn't the head of the law firm for whic... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2011 SELF EXPRESSION -
States Want More in Pension Contributions
It is unfortunate that Steven Greenhouse perpetuates the myth that employees are not responsible for paying 100% of their pension contributions (States want mor... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2011 SELF EXPRESSION