Westfield Announcements

The Town Book Store will host a Meet and Greet on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 2-4 PM for prestigious newspaper editor and Westfield resident George Melloan, who worked for The Wall Street Journal for more than half a century and is no stranger to the wild ups and downs of the American and world economies.  His well argued book, The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism explains—using detailed examples from the Crash of 1929 and from the Carter era—how government intervention actually prevents the economy from recovering its natural balance.  Unless lawmakers realize the true importance of using supply-side economics in our current crisis, warns Melloan, nothing will save us from a new era of disastrous inflation and widespread global depression.

In the face of general misunderstanding, the vastly experienced Wall Street Journal editor George Melloan outlines a lucid and detailed explanation of exactly why we are currently sinking so rapidly, how this crisis compares to similar situations in the past, and exactly what must be done to return the United States to the economic vitality it enjoyed not so long ago.

George Melloan is the veteran of a 54-year writing and editing career at The Wall Street Journal, most recently responsible for oversight of the Journal’s overseas editorial pages.  He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, and twice won the Daily Gleaner Award of the Inter-American Press Association.  In 2005, he received the Barbara Olson Award for excellence and independence in journalism from The American Spectator. 

Meet George Melloan at The Town Book Store located at 270 East Broad Street in Westfield (corner of East Broad and Elmer Streets).  If you are unable to attend this event, feel free to call The Town Book Store at (908) 233-3535 to reserve an autographed copy.