Mises Daily Wednesday by Brendan Brown 

Milton Friedman once compared monetary stimulus to daylight saving time. But while daylight saving has an ending date, current monetary stimulus has no end in sight, and we’re just moving the clock ahead repeatedly without ever moving it back.

In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal economist Douglas Coate suggests a need for “Improving the GOP’s Free-Market Pitch.” He correctly points out, “Capitalism’s virtues don’t easily reduce to sound bites, but that isn’t a reason to give up.” Then he provides a reasonable summary of the benefits of free markets or capitalism including an obligatory reference to Hayek and concludes and provides a suggested sound bite from

It is vitally important that those of us who criticize central banking and endorse the private provision of commodity money understand how the Fed operates.

To that end, this out of print (1991) publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago provides an excellent summary of Fed money mechanics.

Robert Luddy, winner of the 2007 Mises Entrepreneurship Award, writes in The News & Observer: 

Tax Day is quickly approaching, which means that the absurdity of America’s corporate tax rate is on full display.

We all know about Milton Friedman’s money helicopter idiom and how President Obama’s architect in chief of Quantitative Easing used it to justify his “Great Monetary Experiment.” Less well known is Friedman’s idiom about daylight saving time, how he used this to illustrate the case for flexible exchange rates, and how it is now apparently justifying the plunge of money market rates in Europe to sub-zero levels.

Riched Ebeling this week employs a helpful analogy. He notes how free-market economists are often in the position of pointing out that various government regulations and subsidies — which government claims will make everyone better off — are actually a hindrance to economic prosperity for all.

Mises Daily Monday by Logan Albright: 

The neo-mercantilist Export-Import Bank is being pushed with bipartisan support yet again. We’re being told that the Ex-Im Bank is good for private enterprise. It’s no doubt good for some private companies, but there’s a difference between private enterprise and free enterprise.

I am interviewed on Power Trading Radio about the Biggest Bank Heist in History, Cyber Security issues and my article on the Skyscraper Curse.