Weekend edition: CPAC gold highlights; Pethokoukis coaches Romney; Lewis on the best gold standard.

At CPAC, Newt Gingrich advocates his Gold Commission proposal (around minute 24).

The Houston Chronicle notes a CPAC panel on the gold standard.

The NYT reports the “severely” conservative Mitt Romney’s CPAC speech, including Obamacare repeal, opposition to abortion rights, shrinking government and defending traditional marriage. Tax and monetary reforms didn’t make the bill.

At The American, James Pethokoukis advises Romney on how to gin up his economic plan.

On The Kudlow Report, Dan Mitchell debates the GOP candidates’ tax plans:



In Forbes, Nathan Lewis examines the best type of gold standard.

The Time Record (AR) reports Steve Forbes advocating a return to gold.

From The Atlas Sound Money Project, Tyler Watts rebuts the claim that gold is without value.

On Forbes, Peter Ferrara argues the true unemployment rate is 11%.

From Cato, Tad DeHaven notes a new study refuting the Keynesian multiplier.

At Reason, Nick Gillespie highlights America’s manufacturing strength.

On Fiscal Times, Bruce Bartlett critiques the President’s tax proposal.

In The Washington Examiner, Veronique de Rugy continues her tax debate with Jonathan Chait.

Business Week charts Paul Krugman’s feuds with fellow economists.

Tuesday items: Murdock on Gingrich's tax plan; Tamny on the weak dollar's role in airline bankruptcies; Laffer on Obama's tax increases.

At NRO, Deroy Murdock applauds Newt Gingrich’s tax plan.

On Forbes, John Tamny explains the weak dollar’s role in bankrupting American Airlines.

In The WSJ, Charles Schwab argues the Fed’s low interest rates are hurting the economy.

From Bloomberg, Philip Coggan suggests China will shape the next Bretton Woods monetary pact.

On The Kudlow Report, Art Laffer discusses the President’s tax increase proposal:



At The American, James Pethokoukis argues unemployment is substantially higher than the official rate indicates.

From First Trust, Brian Wesbury examines falling labor force participation.

On Forbes, Lawrence Hunter suggests the President’s opposition to success is choking the economy.

Saturday Night Live mocks Newt Gingrich’s moon colony idea:



In The Washington Examiner, Mercatus’s Veronique de Rugy counters The New Yorker’s Jonathan Chait on progressive taxes.

The NYT examines Ron Paul’s “flinty” world view.

Wednesday summary: Kudlow, Pethokoukis, and Ryan on the Super Committee; Gingrich advocates innovation and growth; Ponnuru counters Republican budget obsession.

From NRO, Larry Kudlow warns Super Committee Republicans not to make a tax hike deal.

At The American, James Pethokoukis chimes in against a tax hike.

On The Kudlow Report, US Rep. Paul Ryan (WI) discusses the Super Committee:

 
At Human Events, Newt Gingrich contrasts his economic approach – innovation/growth – with austerity/pain and fantasy/collapse.

In Forbes, Nick Schulz suggests the Obama Administration is biased against private investment.

IBD chides the President for making the US less attractive to foreign investors.

The Street cites Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, and Lew Lehrman in explaining ideas to transition to a gold-linked currency (h/t: TGSN):

 

At NRO, Veronique de Rugy notes millionaires change over time.

On Bloomberg, Ramesh Ponnuru challenges the conventional wisdom that Republicans lost in 2006 and 2008 because of excessive spending.

In The NYT, Bruce Bartlett disputes the GOP’s Balanced Budget Amendment and starve-the-beast ideology.

Monday round up: Benko suggests the Fed is keeping unemployment high; Kessler says Obamacare penalizes work; Mitchell on the GOP tax debate.

At Forbes, Ralph Benko suggests Fed policy is keeping unemployment high (with a kind mention of this blog).

From The WSJ, Stanford’s Daniel Kessler explains that Obamacare imposes substantial penalties on working.

Cato’s Dan Mitchell sides with Grover Norquist against Sen. Tom Coburn (OK) on the need to cut taxes commensurate with eliminating tax expenditures.

On The Kudlow Report, Vince Reinhart discusses QE2’s end:




The NY Sun explains to the President that his weak dollar, not speculators, is behind high oil prices.

At International Liberty, Dan Mitchell expresses cautious optimism at the President’s proposed corporate tax rate reduction.

From Mercatus, Veronique de Rugy and Jason Fichtner report federal income taxes paid by quintile:

At The American Thinker, Chuck Roger rebuts Donald Trump’s protectionist rhetoric.

On Forbes, Brink Lindsey argues for innovation and growth.

From The NYT, David Stockman shows no appreciation for pro-growth economics, advocating painful tax increases on the middle class and wealthy, increased capital gains taxes, and means testing entitlements. On the plus side, he does favor a sound dollar:

The culprit here was the combination of ultralow rates of interest at the Federal Reserve and ultralow rates of taxation on capital gains. The former destroyed the nation’s capital markets, fueling huge growth in household and business debt, serial asset bubbles and endless leveraged speculation in equities, commodities, currencies and other assets.

At the same time, the nearly untaxed windfall gains accrued to pure financial speculators, not the backyard inventors envisioned by the Republican-inspired capital-gains tax revolution of 1978. And they happened in an environment of essentially zero inflation, the opposite of the double-digit inflation that justified a lower tax rate on capital gains back then — but which is now simply an obsolete tax subsidy to the rich.

Also in The Times, Paul Krugman wants tax increases.

Friday items.

At Globe Asia, Steve Hanke calculates President Obama’s misery rating (third after Carter and Nixon). One note is that Hanke refers to Fed rate policy as responsible for the last decade’s falling dollar; analysts including John Tamny argue Treasury jawboning was more responsible as the dollar declined in the 2000s when rates were falling and when rates were rising.

On The Kudlow Report, James Glassman debates Fed policy’s impact on markets:



In The WSJ, Stanford’s Ronald McKinnon counters the recent editorial on China’s monetary sterilization and suggests rising wages will improve trade imbalances.

At Bloomberg TV, David Malpass argues a yuan revaluation would hurt China and the U.S.

From the Heritage Foundation, Derek Scissors discounts security concerns stemming from China trade.

On Kudlow, Larry Kudlow analyzes the GOP’s Pledge to America:



At Reason, Veronique de Rugy argues spending cuts won’t hurt the economy.

From the Mercatus Center, Matthew Mitchell and Jakina Debnam suggest government deficits crowd out private sector investment.

At The Weekly Standard, Jonathan V. Last notes the low American birth rate.

Monday update.

Larry Kudlow discusses the economy on C-SPAN’s Morning Journal.

John Tamny is bullish on America despite poor recent leadership.

At Investors Business Daily, Art Laffer warns of cap and trade's economic impact.

A commodity analyst considers Rober Mundell's euro and gold predictions.

Kevin Hassett worries about the death tax.

Bruce Bartlett lists policy mistakes made by President George W. Bush, but omits the weak and unstable dollar.

In The WSJ, Keynesian Alan Blinder supports higher taxes and increased unemployment spending.

At NRO, Veronique de Rugy refutes Blinder.

White House economics chief Larry Summers defends current policy.

At NRO, Kevin Williamson argues Republicans aren't serious enough about spending cuts.

J.D. Fosters explains why Alan Greenspan is wrong to support increased taxes.