From Ms Sharon Leclercq-Spooner. Sir, Martin Schulz and other MEPs should also take a close look at what the European parliament’s agricultural committee is recommending
From Mr Peter Smaill. Sir, Robert Skidelsky and Marcus Miller consider that the Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Hayek offered a ‘counsel of despair’ in the Great Depression
From Dr Jacob A. Jordaan. Sir, I believe Marcel Fratzscher substantially underestimates the importance and the positive effects of a new trade agreement between the US and the EU
From Emeritus Prof Jascha Kessler. Sir, The looming likelihood of sequestration reminds me of a little tale my father told me during the depths of the Great Depression
From Mr Andrew W. Legge. Sir, James Mackintosh does well to highlight sentiment as a means of making calls for varying allocations across an investment portfolio
From Mr Jasper Parrott. Sir, On a recent flight to New York two articles caught my attention, ‘Financial crisis just a blip for bankers’ and ‘When banks fail small business – a personal account’
From Mr Mark Tinker. Sir, In ‘Financial crisis just a blip for bankers’, it says the total pay for the group of 1,408 key workers was ‘about six times the combined total pay of chief executive officers of every FTSE 100 company’
From Mr Keith Craig. Sir, With reference to the letter from Tom Brown yesterday: that the senior credit officer of a regional German Landesbank is one of your most prolific correspondents
From Mr Francis Wright. Sir, There have been many articles, comments and letters regarding horsemeat introduced into manufactured lasagne, meat balls and various dishes
From Mr Tom Brown. Sir, You are right to characterise Moody’s downgrade of the UK as immediately more a matter of political embarrassment than a reflection of change in creditworthiness
From Prof John A. Mathews. Sir, I agree with Bill Richardson’s overall assessment that the US needs to invest more in renewables for its long-term energy security
From Mr Mark Gomar. Sir, I see that the financier Jim Rogers has been quoted in the media again commenting that he expects sterling ‘to continue to go down further in real terms’