Showing posts with label Thatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thatcher. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tuesday items: Benko chides Santorum on gold; Kadlec on the dollar and oil; Cantor rolls out the GOP jobs plan.

In Forbes, Ralph Benko chides Rick Santorum for opposing the gold standard.

From Bloomberg, Ramesh Ponnuru explains small business opposition to the President’s corporate tax reform plan.

At Forbes, Charles Kadlec links the falling dollar to the rising oil price.

On The Kudlow Report, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (VA) discusses the Republican jobs act:



In The CSM, Stefan Karlsson warns against a Greek devaluation.

From First Trust, Brian Wesbury doubts a stock market correction.

In The Washington Times, Richard Rahn argues for Federal Reserve reform but stops short of supporting gold.

At CNBC, John Carney suggests Reagan and Thatcher’s economic programs worked.

USA Today reports the President will create a trade enforcement bureau.

From Reason, James Pethokoukis discusses anti-growth government policies.



At The American, Pethokoukis quotes Bruce Bartlett on the mainstreaming of supply-side economics.

In The NYT, Bartlett analyzes corporate tax reform.

At Modeled Behavior, Karl Smith suggests work incentives are altered until tax rates hit 70%.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Thursday summary: The WSJ, Mitchell and NR on Romney; Woodhill on gas prices; Mundell on the Canadian dollar.

The WSJ applauds Mitt Romney’s tax cut proposal.

On International Liberty, Dan Mitchell notes Romney’s Keynesian view of spending cuts.

National Review’s editors give two cheers to Romney’s tax reform but fault it for not expanding the child tax credit.

The WSJ pans the President’s corporate tax rate cut.

At Newsmax, Steve Forbes calls the President’s corporate tax reform a “house of horrors.”

On The Kudlow Report, Steve Forbes and James Pethokoukis discuss Rick Santorum’s debate performance:



From Forbes, Louis Woodhill explains that gas prices are not rising, the dollar is falling.

Bloomberg quotes Robert Mundell on the negative trade impact of Canada’s strong dollar.

At Free Banking, George Selgin rebuts James Hamilton’s claim that the gold standard caused the 19th century’s frequent financial panics. (h/t: TGSN)

At NRO, Larry Kudlow notes the President’s embrace of Republican energy policy.

From RCM, John Tamny examines long-term deficit spending.

At Bloomberg, Amity Shlaes argues income tax rate cuts are superior to payroll tax rebates.

On CNBC, David Goldman analyzes oil’s price increase:



The Washington Post quotes Steve Forbes saying Rick Santorum should stop talking about Satan.

Citywire (UK) notes rising belief that central bankers are to blame for the 2008 financial crisis.

The Telegraph (UK) reports discovery, by a former student of Steve Hanke’s, of the Bretton Woods conference’s transcript.

At TGSN, Ralph Benko recounts the Constitution’s sound money roots.

In The Washington Times, Sen. John Kerry (MA) praises classical thinker Robert Zoellick’s World Bank leadership.

From Reason, a Thatcher contemporary remembers her tremendous accomplishments:



At US News, conservative Scott Galupo pans Romney’s embrace of supply-side economics.

On The Daily Show, Bruce Bartlett attacks Republicans for advocating tax cuts.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Thursday items: Reynolds on Romney's tax return; Malpass on Ron Paul; Newt on Reagan.

From IBD, Alan Reynolds explains Mitt Romney’s tax return.

In The WSJ, David Malpass argues the Fed should listen to Ron Paul’s criticism.

The WSJ responds to President Obama’s Buffett Rule would raise the capital gains tax to 1978 level.

On The Kudlow Report, Newt Gingrich defends his support for President Reagan:



In The WSJ, Henry Nau explains the middle class shrank from 1980-2007 because more people became wealthy.

From Bloomberg, Evan Schnidman and Daniel Nadler note the economy’s positive reaction in recent years to a weaker dollar.

In The WSJ, Daniel Yergin suggests the new Thatcher bio-pic misses the pro-growth turnaround she led.

At Fiscal Times, Bruce Bartlett says the flat tax will never fly.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tuesday items: Kudlow, Luskin and Moore on Romney; Boaz and DeMint on Paul; IBD says the Fed is readying QE3.

From NRO, Larry Kudlow suggests Mitt Romney should downsize the US government to turnaround America, Inc.

In The WSJ, Don Luskin advises Romney to defend his work at Bain.

From Cato, David Boaz defends US Rep. Ron Paul’s (TX) analysis of the financial crisis.

On The Kudlow Report, Stephen Moore discusses Romney's taxes:



In The Washington Post, Bill Knapp suggests the middle class is not stagnating.

IBD reports the Federal Reserve is preparing QE3.

The NY Sun opposes release of Fed transcripts.

In Forbes, Charles Kadlec argues declining freedom is the root of the economy’s problems.

At Powerline, Steven Hayward advocates a Laffer Curve for regulation.

On CNN, Sen. Jim DeMint (SC) applauds Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve criticism:



On Bloomberg, Virginia Postrel pans the new Margaret Thatcher movie.

In The Washington Times, Richard Rahn compares the economies of Cayman and Belize.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Tuesday update: Malpass and Moore on capital outflow; Domitrovic on unproductive investment; Benko on gold enthusiasm on the campaign trail.

From The WSJ, David Malpass and Stephen Moore note the outflow of investment capital from the US.

On Forbes, Brian Domitrovic explains that the weak dollar has shunted trillions of dollars out of productive investment into unproductive assets such as commodities.

At Forbes, Ralph Benko reports on gold standard enthusiasm on the campaign trail.

On The Kudlow Report, John Rutledge discusses the stock market and the economy:





At International Liberty, Cato’s Dan Mitchell provides three simple rules for tax reform.

The WSJ applauds the Greek government’s leading supply sider.

Mr. Samaras is calling for a cut in the Greek corporate income tax to 15% from 24%, along with cuts in the personal income-tax rate and taxes on fuel and tourism. In yesterday's interview he argues that lower rates would ease Greece's rampant tax-evasion problem while unleashing the creativity of the private sector. Sounds about right to us. As long as Mr. Samaras is looking for unorthodox ideas, we'd commend to his attention economist Steve Hanke's proposal, outlined on these pages last year, to sharply cut payroll taxes on employers to reduce labor costs and spur job creation. Greece's labor costs have soared over the past decade under union pressure, and those uncompetitive wages are a big part of Greece's sluggish economy.


From Forbes, Lawrence Hunter links the increase in social welfare spending with the decline in net private investment.

On RCM, John Tamny reviews Tim Harford’s Adapt.

At NRO, Mario Loyola notes the folly of soaking the rich.

Also on Kudlow, Stephen Moore and Sen. Rob Portman (OH) discuss the debt and taxes:




TGSN features videos of Lew Lehrman discussing the gold standard.

In The NYT, Bruce Bartlett reveals that Margaret Thatcher’s conservative revolution merely slowed the growth of Britain’s government.

From Bloomberg, Keynesian Brad DeLong argues the US is in a liquidity trap and requires big government spending stimulus to get out.