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