An employee holds a 12.5 kg golden bar on April 6, 2009 at a plant of gold refiner and bar manufacturer Argor-Heraeus SA in Mendrisio, southern Switzerland ©AFP 12:51am

Gold price: it’s not complicated

From Mr Alasdair Macleod. Sir, With reference to your report ‘Leading bullion bank declares end to gold’s decade-long rise’ (February 2): Why make it complicated?

12:50am

There is a limit to helicopter money

From Mr Geoff Crocker. Sir, The answer to Alessandro Ciravegna’s question is that the limit to currently necessary monetary expansion is output gross domestic product

12:49am

Central banks can invest without asset bubbles

From Ms Suleika Reiners. Sir, New central bank money could quickly fund real-economic investment needs (Comment, February 13)

12:48am

Strictly on a need to know basis

From Mr. Stefan Kemball. Sir, Your 125th anniversary edition brought back memories – I was once your humble stringer in the Arabian Gulf (1973-76) and still live in Dubai

12:41am

Your sub-editors deserve praise too

From Ms Rosie Knox-Peebles. Sir, Among all the well-deserved plaudits for the Financial Times on its anniversary, one was missed: the paper’s humour

12:39am

Our language isn’t what it used to be

From Mr Guy Wroble. Sir, One would hope that the pedants who write to rail against the usage of the vernacular in your newspaper would have read your first page for 1888

12:38am

One (old) penny for your thoughts

From Dr Tim Leunig. Sir, Your facsimile gives the price of the FT as 1d in 1888

12:36am

Hedonic adjustment?

From Mr Gareth Howlett. Sir, Congratulations on your 125th anniversary

12:34am

Pay your taxes – and a living wage

From Dr Marco G.D. Guidi. Sir, It is important that private companies that win large public contracts pay tax

12:33am

Strategy that proved fatal for Pan Am

From Mr Vijay Dandapani. Sir, Amy Kazmin’s report quotes the opinion of experts, one of whom suggests that closure is ‘not an option’ for Kingfisher Airlines

12:31am

‘A world without passengers’

From Mr Duncan Blake. Sir, Reading with interest your article about ‘grounded Kingfisher’, I was drawn to check if the airline’s website did indeed present a picture of almost normality

12:30am

Lost experience of the audible smile

From Mr Ian Rodger. Sir, Lucy Kellaway is right to bemoan the demise of the landline telephone (February 11)

12:21am

Rotation ensures a ‘fresh pair of eyes’

From Mr Roger Collinge and others. Sir, Shortly, the UK Competition Commission will be presenting its preliminary views on whether the large audit market is sufficiently competitive

12:19am

Fund investors pay less in fees

From Mr Paul Schott Stevens. Sir, Tom Stabile bizarrely casts the US mutual fund industry as a financial villain in a misleading commentary

Feb 14, 2013

Made in the Shanghai-lands

From Mr Frank McCallum. Sir, The difficulties involved in country of origin labelling were illustrated to me years ago at a Beijing conference

Feb 13, 2013

Does helicopter money come with no limits?

From Mr Alessandro Ciravegna. Sir, Martin Wolf’s case boils down to there being circumstances under which governments should print money in unlimited quantities

Feb 13, 2013

Self-interested savaging of BP

From Mr Martin E. Simons, London, UK. Sir, Your editorial ‘Spill claims should not bleed BP dry’ (February 7) is timely and drills straight to the point

Feb 13, 2013

Apply same logic to oil and nuclear

From Mr Nicolas Tavitian. Sir, John Gapper argues in favour of ‘legal jeopardy’ as an incentive for credit rating agencies to clean up their act

Feb 13, 2013

Money growth rate distinguishes medicine from poison

From Prof Tim Congdon. Sir, Adair Turner’s call for a pragmatic attitude towards the monetisation of public debt is welcome (‘Turner defends permanent printing of money’, February 6)

Feb 13, 2013

State backing has been disguised

From Mr Dan Roberts. Sir, Your front page article of February 12 warns of ‘controversy for a government that has pledged not to provide public subsidies for the industry’

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