Letter writer Mathew Cone has the temerity to suggest that government regulation and intervention caused our cureent,  miserable economic conditions (”No intervention”, Letters, July 25).  His solution: even more deregulation to “allow markets to recover naturally.”  In other words: more of the same.   

I submit, however,…

I’m a little ambivalent about the latest congressional prescription for the mortgage crisis. Anyone wanting to hold the line might advise: when you [regulators] hit bottom, stop digging. Congress looks at this mess, largely induced by the government’s no down-side…

Those people responsible for the sub-prime mortgage fiasco have done more harm to our country than the terrorists.  It seems that we are our greatest enemy.  While our service men in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting killed and wounded fighting…

Referencing today’s article by Chris Krehmeyer on the mortgage bust.  Folks who bought way more house than they could afford made a very poor decision.  Some may have run into hard times as he stated however I would have to…