Author: Vivian Lewis

  Subscriber SR wrote:Am I wrong that sometime during the Clinton administration they decided that banks needed to lend to “people of color in the less desirable parts of the cities?” This then forced the banks...

  Some of the shibboleths and slogans readers trotted out responding to the economists’ (and my) views published yesterday need rebutting. A Texan doctor decries my zeal for resuming estate taxes (after the heirs of...

  While your editor opposes fiscal tightening and measures to cut the deficit short-term, because of the risks of Japanese style deflation, there are a few quickie fixes I would like to see. Congress should close the...

  The doyenne of the White House Press Corps, Helen Thomas, 89, has had to resign from the Hearst publications group over remarks she made to a rabbi (filmed by his son). She said Israelis should “get the hell out...

  They famously do not ring a bell at the bottom, but I think Friday’s selloff came close. First of all, Fridays are scary,e ven if they are not Friday the 13th, which comes on Sunday this year. Facin a weekend when...

  There is bad news for the summer for folks along the Atlantic Ocean shore like me. It is promising to be a scorcher based on the high temperatures we have had since June began. But therre will be little relief.. Not only...

  There is a need for free markets in the places where deficits are highest. And it’s high time this was tried. That is the subject of today’s rant by your editor. Comments are welcome. There is the good side of...

  Naomi Sherir’s poem is about what Arabs call the Jews’ tree (segerat el-yahud), the eucalyptus, an Australian import: But on the shore As if nothing happened, The same silence and the same décor. The...

Today’s blog is late because of the unexpected complexities of moving to a new webhost and new web designer over the long weekend. My apologies. To save time I have not inserted accents. Tom McClellan, recovering from an...