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Edward Lotterman's columns
The cost of 'going green' really depends on the benefits we want
Few important economic questions are all or nothing. Rather, the issue usually is 'how much.' A recent letter to an editor serves as an example: 'Not only will going green, along with the proposed cap and trade, destroy commerce, trade and industry, but consumers also will experience gigantic increases in the costs of goods and services.' | GO...- Lotterman: Our grandchildren will lament our financial foolishness
- Lotterman: The jobless rate fell. Fewer people worked. Confused?
- Lotterman: Propping up milk prices is a mistake
- Lotterman: Stimulus was the least bad alternative
- Lotterman: Indiana University political scientist Ostrom deserves Nobel Prize
- Ed Lotterman: GDP useful, but it has limitations
- Lotterman: How Paulson's deceit may have helped us
- Lotterman: Large banks need to shrink, and small ones need more help
- Lotterman: Who really pays for insolvent banks?
- Lotterman: The Fed and Treasury deserve credit for our country's economic rescue
- Lotterman: Voters' unreasonable demands hurt the economy
- Lotterman: Our big redistribution of wealth to the elderly
- Ed Lotterman: Frugality good for individuals but not for the economy
- Lotterman: Do you have a moral right to government payments?
- Lotterman: Creating money from nothing
- Lotterman: Justice may be blind, but it's still subject to scarcity
- Lotterman: 'Opportunity cost' of Iraq War is high
- Lotterman: Birth rates pose challenges in U.S., abroad
- Lotterman: Looking for benefits without being willing to pay the cost is never a good idea
- Lotterman: Higher death rates doesn't equal bad health care
- Your Treasure Valley business community: accomplishments and promotions.
- Lotterman: We don't need lies about health care reform
- Lotterman: Don't trust Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's soothing words
- Lotterman: Low prices mean tough times for dairy farmers
- Lotterman: Going beyond Vietnam, remember Robert McNamara for research
- Lotterman: Limit future bank disaster damage
- Lotterman: What's true for one bank isn't true for all
- Ed Lotterman: Cash-for-clunkers program has its ups and downs
- Lotterman: 'Sin taxes' have benefits and drawbacks
- Lotterman: Sometimes, responsible managers make bad decisions too
- Ed Lotterman: Left, right need to keep rhetoric real
- Lotterman: To prevent future crises, the Fed must admit its role in causing the current one
- Lotterman: Financial regulation has grown into a hodgepodge
- Lotterman: Is fast-rising CEO pay a sign of U.S. market failure?
- Lotterman: How to stop state leaders from listening to siren songs
- Lotterman: Does life influence economists' decisions?
- Lotterman: Faster return to economic growth is better for Social Security
- Lotterman: Credit default swaps create perverse incentives for lenders
- Lotterman: Higher ed, military share cost similarities
- Lotterman: Do we want big banks and industrial companies or not?
- Lotterman: Picking effective yet impartial Cabinet can be tricky
- Lotterman: Thrift has drawbacks in a recession
- Administration, tax protesters delusional
- Lotterman: Good market days don't signal the end
- Ed Lotterman: 1980s farm credit crisis suggests a solution for today
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