Monday items: Tamny advises the GOP to advocate sound money; Moore, Kudlow and Forbes on Perry's tax plan; Lewis on downsizing banks.

From Forbes, John Tamny suggests President Obama can’t win if Republicans advocate sound money.

In The WSJ, Stephen Moore reports details of the Perry flat tax plan.

On NRO, Larry Kudlow argues the Dow likes the GOP tax debate.

In The NY Post, Steve Forbes praises Rick Perry’s flat tax.

On The WSJ site, James Taranto discusses Mitt Romney’s “guilty Republican syndrome”:

 

At New World Economics, Nathan Lewis reports from Utah’s monetary conference earlier this month.

On NWE, Lewis advocates a radical downsizing of US banks.

At RCM, Joe Calhoun challenges Matthew Yglesias’ claim that malinvestment doesn’t harm the economy.

In The WSJ, Paul Moreno argues the President’s blame-business strategy follows FDR’s 1937 example.

At AEI, Alan Reynolds discusses income trends over the last three decades:

 

In The Nation, Ari Berman explains how the "austerity class" dominates Washington.

The Washington Post, liberal EJ Dionne argues Republican tax proposals would raise taxes on the poor.

Thursday round up.

On The Kudlow Report, Sen. Evan Bayh (IN) sounds more supply-side than most Republicans.

NRO's Reihan Salam discusses supply-side economics' origins.

Stanford's Ronald McKinnon advocates leaving China's exchange rate as is.

Kevin Williamson considers the CBO's recent debt report.

E.J. Dionne suggests it is fiscal stupidity to keep supply-side tax cuts but advocates more stimulus spending.

Don Boudreaux rebuts Dionne by explaining that the wealthy pay a larger share of taxes since rates were lowered.

Heritage's J.D. Foster defends deficit hawks who oppose tax increases.

At The Huffington Post, Joe Minarik argues there's little difference between debt incurred for tax rate cuts or Keynesian spending.

From the archive, the late Jude Wanniski presents Robert Mundell on international monetary reform.

Today I added two items under the Classic Articles area:

“A Deficit of Understanding” by Don Boudreaux; and

“The Needle's Eye: Why America's Economic Recovery Needs the Global South” by Reuven Brenner and David Goldman.

Unfortunately, "The Needle’s Eye" is behind First Things’ subscriber wall so I posted a free version. I highly recommend both articles.