They printed it (to read my letter, scroll down after you follow the link).
Their front-page story on Geithner’s regulatory proposal made me lose my Cheerios when I read it. What they printed is a mild effort to correct their narrative.
They printed it (to read my letter, scroll down after you follow the link).
Their front-page story on Geithner’s regulatory proposal made me lose my Cheerios when I read it. What they printed is a mild effort to correct their narrative.
Mar 29 2009
Cato sent me a copy of In the Name of Justice, edited by Timothy Lynch. It's not my field, so I just read Lynch's introduction. He describes a litany of ways in which our criminal justice system takes away Constitutional protection. It fails to conform to any theory of either utilitarian or retributive justice. I w...
Mar 29 2009
Tyler Cowen does not see much help in keeping banks small. I agree with Simon Johnson, who thinks that big banks are too powerful politically. I think that the issue does pretty much boil down to political economy. Big banks are likely to be more powerful politically when they get in trouble. For small banks to b...
Mar 29 2009
They printed it (to read my letter, scroll down after you follow the link). Their front-page story on Geithner's regulatory proposal made me lose my Cheerios when I read it. What they printed is a mild effort to correct their narrative.
READER COMMENTS
Brian T. Schwartz
Mar 29 2009 at 11:08pm
Congrats on getting the letter published! And well written, of course.
I often submit letters-to-the-editor and wish free-market oriented bloggers did so more often. (My perception is that few do submit letters.)
In terms of return on investment, i.e., number of readers of one’s blog vs. the number of people who read letters in a newspaper, it can be well worth it.
Zac
Mar 30 2009 at 2:03am
@Brian- You may already know this, but Don Boudreaux (Masonomist, free-marketeer, and blogger) is an avid letter-writer. He posts most (all?) of the letters he writes to editors on his blogs, Cafe Hayek and Market Correction.
I don’t read newspapers (I was born in the 80s) so I have no idea how often these letters are printed. I am glad to hear, though, that Old Media is at least making some token effort to represent the free-market view in print.
The Cupboard Is Bare
Mar 30 2009 at 3:12pm
“breaking from an era in which the government stood back from financial markets and allowed participants to decide how much risk to take in the pursuit of profit.”
And what era was that? I must have missed it. 🙂
Glad you challenged the article and that they printed your letter.
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