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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Thursday round up: NRO on Romney's minimim wage proposal; Rove on Gingrich's southern strategy; Prasad on yuan convertibility.

NRO’s editors critique Mitt Romney’s support for minimum wage increases.

The WSJ analyzes Rick Santorum’s surge and Romney’s policy vulnerability.

At NRO, Thomas Sowell notes continued conservative opposition to Romney.

In The WSJ, Karl Rove argues Newt Gingrich’s southern strategy is insufficient.

On The WSJ, Larry Sabato discusses Romney’s problems with the right, and general election prospects:




At Forbes, Louis Woodhill highlights wasteful alternative energy spending.

On Forbes, Cato’s James Dorn advocates a sound money policy rather than stimulus.

In The WSJ, Eswar Prasad suggests yuan convertibility is key to its future.

From Bloomberg, Amity Shlaes rebuts Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl ad.

On The Kudlow Report, a panel discusses the CPAC conference:



At Killer Frogs, Kyle Clifton highlights a Jude Wanniski memo to US Rep. Ron Paul (TX).

From Human Events, House Speaker John Boehner (OH) outlines his growth agenda, including energy exploration, roads and bridges projects, no earmarks, and reduced federal mandates.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Friday items.

At The Gold Standard Now, Ralph Benko examines the Triffin Dilemma and how a gold standard would solve it.

CNN reports the IMF's call for a dollar alternative. (Hat tip: Dan Clifton, Strategas Research Partners.)

Gulf News suggests Robert Mundell supports moving away from the dollar as reserve currency.

On The Kudlow Report, Stephen Moore discusses the economy’s strength:




From Forbes, Bill Flax argues supply-side economics’ flaw is that it brings in too much revenue.

At RCM, Keynesian Robert Samuelson correctly concludes that President Reagan’s greatest economic achievement was defeating inflation, but gives Fed Chairman Volcker more credit than he deserves (see last night’s Domitrovic item), and downplays the impact of lower tax rates.

Youtube provides the new Atlas Shrugged movie trailer:



In Forbes, Reuven Brenner notes Social Security may alter the relationship of children and parents.

At The NYT, Paul Krugman derides U.S. Reps. Paul Ryan (WI) and Ron Paul (TX) for advocating sound money.