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May 20, 2013
Bridge the gap on innovation rights
From Professor Meir Pugatch. Sir, A nation’s mindset is reflected by the rulings of its courts (‘India: Patents and precedents’, Analysis, May 16)
May 20, 2013
Good governance requires more than rule fixes
From Dr Roger Barker. Sir, Jonathan Guthrie and David Oakley report that the UK Listing Authority is about to introduce new listing rules for companies with controlling shareholders
May 20, 2013
Banks are not a special case on debt-equity ratio
From Prof Anat Admati and Prof Martin Hellwig. Sir, The title of Mark Roe’s Comment article of May 15, ‘Brown-Vitter is another example of how not to fix the banks,’ gives the wrong impression
May 20, 2013
Don’t blame PRAs for oil industry’s structural failures
From Mr Adi Imsirovic. Sir, The conclusions of the investigation by the European Commission into the formation of the oil price benchmarks are likely to focus on symptoms
May 20, 2013
Prospect of Tory defectors to Ukip
From Lord Meghnad Desai. Sir, Philip Stephens draws an analogy between the Labour party in the 1980s and today’s Conservative party on the issue of Europe
May 20, 2013
UK stands alone in Europe’s third tier
From Prof Simon Hix. Sir, In arguing that the UK could be the potential leader of the non-euro European Union states, Philip Dodds misunderstands the direction of travel for most of these other states
May 20, 2013
Monetary policy fails to boost jobs
From Mr Richard Yamarone. Sir, Neil Munshi is correct to point out that despite the job increases in the US car industry, employment in the manufacturing sector is a far cry from cheery
May 20, 2013
CO2 contribution is really significant
From Mr Kenyon Bradt. Sir, Chris Kniel contends that carbon dioxide constitutes ‘3-4 per cent’ of total greenhouse gases, and that ‘man’s contribution’ to GHG ‘is less than 1 per cent’
May 20, 2013
We ran circles round ‘big data’ with five simple maxims
From Mr R. Beske. Sir, Decades ago on a rotational assignment to the information management department (for which I was poorly qualified to be deputy chief), my able staff shared these maxims
May 19, 2013
Corporate contests are nothing new
From Prof Brian Cheffins. Sir, John Kay no doubt is correct that stock markets function differently from how they did in the era of Alfred Sloan, president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956
May 19, 2013
UK should pursue role as leader of non-eurozone EU nations
From Mr Philip Dodds. Sir, It is time to move the discussion about the UK’s relationship with the European Union on to a positive footing, based on a long-term, strategic view of our national interest
May 19, 2013
Much better ways to spend vast sums
From Mr James Skinner. Sir, Airport expansion for London seems to arouse emotions that are strongly competitive
May 19, 2013
Take the long view on useful words to depict a cataclysm
From Mr Eric Lucas. Sir, James Mackintosh invokes the definition of ‘spike’ in the FT style guide to shine light amusingly on the widespread unease at rising Japanese government bond yields
May 19, 2013
Bloomberg has deep understanding of Wall Street’s needs
From Mr David Kaplan. Sir, I’ve been a Bloomberg user for so long that I can’t remember. It’s been at least 20 years
May 19, 2013
Bloomberg has never taken Wall Street for granted
From Mr Tim Dooling. Sir, Computer systems are best governed solely by their term of use agreements and not any higher civil nor moral authority
May 19, 2013
Storks and humans in perfect harmony
From Mr Leo King. Sir, How wonderful of Harry Eyres to draw attention to the impact of storks on our lives (‘Our eyes on the storks’, Life & Arts, May 11)
May 19, 2013
Climate denial has led to paralysis in leadership
From Prof Dennis J.D. Sandole. Sir, Whatever human nature is, it is certainly not proactive
May 18, 2013
Show your Christianity on gay bishops, Dr Welby
From Mr James Patterson. Sir, Lucy Kellaway’s interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury reveals a leader reluctant to address the ordination of gay bishops
May 18, 2013
EU exit would call Security Council seat into question
From Lord Williams of Balgan. Sir, Michael Heseltine makes a compelling case for the UK remaining in the European Union (‘Britain should be leading in Europe – not leaving it’, Comment, May 11)
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