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Letters to the Editor
Readers write about whether President-elect Obama can become another FDR and if he can, whether or not he should.

Debt Clock Runs on Borrowed Time
John Stepek of MoneyWeek magazine says, "Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke has studied the Depression, they say. He knows what to do." Feeling particularly feisty, I immediately felt the need to burst in with a rude remark ("Hahahaha!

Letters to the Editor
Can (or should) Obama be another FDR?Regarding the Nov. 24 Opinion piece, "FDR saved capitalism now it's Obama's turn": If author Robert S.

Bernanke's Playbook
In the National Football League, a marginal player dreads the request that he report to the coach and bring his playbook. He figures he is going to be cut from the team. The coach makes sure the playbook does not leave with the player.

Monetary policy toward banks needs reworking
When you write an economics working paper, you don't usually have to field telephone calls from network TV morning shows. You won't be gaining weight from Green Room goodies. And you won't have to endure the reproachful looks at the cleaner's because of the makeup stains on your collar.

Doha Declaration calls for more robust frameworks
11 November 2008 The Third Annual Conference of Hawkamah - the Institute of Corporate Governance - yesterday issued the Doha Declaration on its concluding day, calling for the implementation of more robust corporate governance frameworks to maintain the stability of the region's financial system in the face of the global financial crisis.

Interest rates doing the limbo, as banks slash to below inflation
And it's quite possible they'll go even lower in the struggle to shore up the faltering economy.

Crisis Cogitations
Everyone must be wondering where this unprecedented global financial crisis, (the World Banks words), is heading. What follows, for what they are worth, are my cogitations on this crisis.

A local voice for national monetary reform
MELFA -- Joe Bongiovanni is a self-proclaimed advocate for monetary reform.

Mystical Prime Minister of Finance views abyss
Last November, I introduced in this space my Prime Minister of Finance, who has repeatedly warned of financial crisis. Our current troubles may differ in some details from the minister's predictions, but he was surely right that trouble was brewing.