From Mr Alex J. Pollock.

Sir, Jonathan Davis ("Watch that desire for certainty and elegance", FTfm, February 6) correctly addresses the danger of false certainty in economics, but concludes by quoting Keynes about how economic policy had "blundered...

Sir, Lawrence Summers is certainly correct in asserting that the right focus of the European countries must be on restoring economic growth if they are to restore fiscal sustainability (“Growth not austerity is the best...

Sir, Gillian Tett is distorting history by understatement ("The banks that politicians can be seen to embrace", February 18). She writes: "During the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s dozens of small banks collapsed." Dozens? Between 1982 and...

The following is a letter to the editor in response to an April 8 op-ed in The Financial Times on the possibility of countries opting to leave the eurozone.

Sir, Edward Luce's description of the competing views in the US about both the financial crisis and a supposed "crisis of capitalism" was a caricature, particularly his discussion of the view he ascribed to the Republicans ("America's three views on the crisis", March 19).

A comparison between Greece today and Brazil in the past is of limited value, due to the number of fundamental differences between the nations' situations.

A top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama's economic policies are failing, and offer a commonsense blueprint for reigniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans.

The U.S. economic recovery currently faces an increased risk of a double-dip recession and a call for Federal Reserve tightening could hardly be more ill-timed.