http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/friedman/ en-us Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:13:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036252/posts There's a splendid controversy brewing at the University of Chicago--at least we'll consider it splendid so long as it has a happy ending, which now seems likely. The U of C may be best known these days as home to the law school where Barack Obama used to lecture on constitutional law (twice a week!), but in simpler times it was most famous as the academic perch of the great free-market economist Milton Friedman, who died in 2006. So when a prestigious university wants to name a research center after its most celebrated (Nobel prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, etc.,... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036252/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:13:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022406/posts Imagine for a minute, just a minute, that someone running for president was able to actually tell the truth, the real truth, to the American people about what would be the best — I mean really the best — energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our country. I realize this is a fantasy, but play along with me for a minute. What would this mythical, totally imaginary, truth-telling candidate say? The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022406/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 12:56:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1972088/posts Both authors are interviewed at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. Marcus Luttrell ~ the incredible story of heroism and grit, as well as heartbreaking loss. Afghanistan: The Forgotten War -- on cspan-2 now. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 The One (Marcus Luttrell) The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War (Brandon Friedman) cspan-2 - Book tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1972088/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928791/posts I have no idea who is going to win the Democratic presidential nomination, but lately I've been wondering whether, if it is Barack Obama, he might want to consider keeping Dick Cheney on as his vice president. No, I personally am not a Dick Cheney fan, and I know it is absurd to even suggest, but now that I have your attention, here's what's on my mind: After Iraq and Pakistan, the most vexing foreign policy issue that will face the next president will be how to handle Iran. There is a Cold War in the Middle East today between... Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928791/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:32:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915520/posts Boy, am I glad we finally got out of Iraq. It was so painful waking up every morning and reading the news from there. It’s just such a relief to have it out of mind and behind us. Huh? Say what? You say we’re still there? But how could that be — nobody in Washington is talking about it anymore? I don’t know whether it was the sheer agony of the debate over Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony, or the fact that the surge really has dampened casualties, or the failure by Democrats to force an Iraq withdrawal through Congress, or... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915520/posts#comment Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:04:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905085/posts New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman must be awfully tired of the global war on terror (GWOT). In his column "9/11 Is Over," he laments that "we've become 'The United States of Fighting Terrorism.' … I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don't need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12." Alrighty, then. Let's just declare the war over. Liberals have tried to convince us they are hawks on the GWOT but that they just don't believe Iraq is part of it. They want to go back into Afghanistan with greater force, or... davidlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905085/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:47:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904439/posts Thomas Friedman thinks you are "stupid" if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks "9/11 is over" and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly meaningless "fear," that we have a dilapidated infrastructure, and that while America used to be "the gold standard," he believes "We aren’t anymore." Friedman is falling for the typical, leftist doom-and-gloom scenario and imagines that China is better than we are, Europe is more inviting, and... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904439/posts#comment Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860925/posts <p>CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 has issued a new video tape calling on Muslims to unite in jihad, or holy war, and support the Islamist movement in Iraq, a U.S.-based intelligence monitoring group said Wednesday.</p> <p>Ayman al-Zawahri is seen in the one-hour and 35 minutes tape dressed in white and addressing topics from Iraq to Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Egypt, said the U.S.-based SITE intelligence group, which monitors al-Qaida messages.</p> The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860925/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:21:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817042/posts A few weeks ago I gathered some quotes of Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, on the same subject. It was a very illustrative exercise, as it allowed me to see how a conservative on one hand, and a liberal on the other, can have a different outlook on the same thing. Recently I read snippets of columns of the late economist Milton Friedman, all of which appeared in the Wall Street Journal over the years. I thought it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast between a champion of the free market versus a champion of government. And... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817042/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:14:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817318/posts A few weeks ago I gathered some quotes of Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, on the same subject. It was a very illustrative exercise, as it allowed me to see how a conservative on one hand, and a liberal on the other, can have a different outlook on the same thing. Recently I read snippets of columns of the late economist Milton Friedman, all of which appeared in the Wall Street Journal over the years. I thought it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast between a champion of the free market versus a champion of government. And... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817318/posts#comment Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815769/posts It was my good fortune to meet Milton Friedman in February 1968, while I was at Oppenheimers. The stock market was in what looked like the early stages of a bear market, with the S&P 500 down 8 percent in a couple of months. My partner and good friend, Fred Stein, feared that the U.S. was going back to the depression of the 1930s. After all, he reasoned, “All consumers had acquired their needs; everyone had a car.” A very recent University of Chicago grad working in the research department suggested that Fred bring in a relatively unknown economist, Professor... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815769/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789001/posts When Milton Friedman stepped forward on December 10, 1976, to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from the King of Sweden, he needed bodyguards. His moment of glory was marred by a mob of protesters outside gathering to condemn Friedman’s alleged complicity in the crimes of the military regime ruling Chile, which allegedly lived and died according to his theories. One heckler even slipped inside, shouting “down with capitalism, freedom for Chile” from the balcony. It was a telling moment in a controversial career. Despite being a professional academic, Friedman had never locked himself away in an ivory... Reason http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789001/posts#comment Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:08:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777679/posts Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, the legendary champion of economic freedom and the nemesis of Keynesian orthodoxy, strongly influenced the economic policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the growing opposition to Communism within the eastern bloc, and more controversially Chile under Pinochet. Less well known is the fact that much before these events transpired he was engaged as consultant by India’s finance ministry, along with another prominent American economist, J K Galbraith, as Independent India embarked on a new economic trajectory. Galbraith and Friedman were at opposite ends of the State-Market paradigm, and both died in 2006. Galbraith was close... The Economic Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777679/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773218/posts California governor Arnold Schwarznegger has announced that January 29, 2007, has been declared “Milton Friedman Day” in the State of California. The governor made the announcement on Monday, January 22, during his talk at a memorial service at Stanford University for the late renowned economist. Friedman, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1976, died on November 16, 2006, at the age of 94. Schwarznegger told those attending the tribute ceremony that he was inspired by Friedman and his ideas on the power of the free market while watching the television program Free to Choose in the... Business Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773218/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:58:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771951/posts In July last year, the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics in 1976, granted an interview to The Wall Street Journal. Today we publish material from a question-and-answer exchange he had by email--shortly after their meeting--with his interviewer, Tunku Varadarajan, the Journal's editorial features editor. Should China float the yuan?Milton Friedman: Yes. Pegging the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar requires that China follow a policy which over time yields an inflation rate that is compatible with, though not necessarily equal to, the U.S. inflation rate. When that is not the case, maintaining the peg will require control over... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771951/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:26:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771506/posts In July last year, the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics in 1976, granted an interview to The Wall Street Journal. Today we publish material from a question-and-answer exchange... Should China float the yuan? Milton Friedman: Yes. Pegging the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar requires that China follow a policy which over time yields an inflation rate that is compatible with, though not necessarily equal to, the U.S. inflation rate. When that is not the case, maintaining the peg will require control over foreign exchange transactions both current and capital. But China's future depends on their eliminating such... WSJ Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771506/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:50:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753503/posts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2006 Contact: Eugene Delgaudio Loudoun County, Virginia to honor Milton Friedman The Loudoun County, Virginia Board of Supervisors will on Tuesday, December 19 honor the life and works of free-market economist Milton Friedman by naming his birthday, all subsequent anniversaries, as “Milton Friedman Day” in the county. “Loudoun County owes its success to the global economy that Friedman helped create,” said Sterling District Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio, sponsor of the resolution. “Without Friedman’s lifelong advocacy of greater individual freedom we would never know the quality of life we enjoy in both Loudoun County and United States.”... Office of Sterling Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753503/posts#comment Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:48:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1750310/posts Milton Friedman - Good & Dead If anyone could be said to be the father of the Libertarian Party, it would be Milton Friedman. Many men have had many bad ideas, but few have had the opportunity of putting them to such universal use. Father of supply side economics, Friedman is responsible for each of us paying 20% of our federal tax bill for interest on the Reagan and Bush debt. Friedman’s philosophy puts the bill for greed now – pay later on the backs of our children and grandchildren. While the rest of the civilized world has an overall... Rackjite Blog and Site CAUTION..extreme liberalism and attack on freerepublic! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1750310/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743282/posts Milton Friedman famously declared that the sole business of the managers of a publicly held corporation was to maximize the value of its outstanding shares. Any effort to use corporate resources for purely altruistic purposes he equated to socialism. He proposed that corporation law should prevent managers from straying off the reservation to join the altruists, a power now almost universally granted them by state legislation. At a conference 34 years ago, celebrating Friedman's 60th birthday, I presented a paper questioning that dictum by noting that the vast part of apparently nonprofit-oriented behavior by corporate managers was really--and necessarily--a profit-maximizing... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743282/posts#comment Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742459/posts The death last week of Milton Friedman, "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory," as The New York Times accurately labeled him, ended a great life. But there was another Milton Friedman many obituary writers overlooked, or mentioned only in passing, that may offer him an even greater legacy than his economic theories about limited government. In the last 10 years of his 94-year life, Friedman and his wife, Rose, dedicated themselves to school choice. They viewed school choice as a companion to economic freedom. Through the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation they enthusiastically promoted school choice as a means... Tribune Media Services http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742459/posts#comment Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:43:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741779/posts 'INFLATION IS always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." I can think of few sentences in economics that have engraved themselves more deeply in my memory than Milton Friedman's famous line in his Encyclopedia Britannica entry for "Money." Even before I went to university, I had become fascinated by the problem of inflation. No wonder: In 1975, when I was 11, the annual rate hit 27% in Britain. At Oxford, however, I was prescribed John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. I discovered Friedman only when I began work on my doctoral dissertation on the German hyperinflation of 1923. Suddenly all... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741779/posts#comment Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741222/posts IF John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the first half of the 20th century, then Milton Friedman was the most influential economist of the second half. Not so long ago, we were all Keynesians. (“I am a Keynesian,” Richard Nixon famously said in 1971.) Equally, any honest Democrat will admit that we are now all Friedmanites. Mr. Friedman, who died last week at 94, never held elected office but he has had more influence on economic policy as it is practiced around the world today than any other modern figure. I grew up in a family of... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741222/posts#comment Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740996/posts The deflation of Friedman The great monetarist's one real success helped to create the sort of big government he despised Richard Adams Saturday November 18, 2006 The Guardian The death of Milton Friedman has provoked an outpouring of tributes to one of the modern era's most controversial economists. But given how little success he had in translating his ideas into practice, it is worth asking just what his legacy is. Thanks to his status as a hate figure for the left, many assume that Friedman's agenda was cemented by the Reagan and Thatcher regimes of the 1980s - especially his... Guardian Unlimited http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740996/posts#comment Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:31:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740722/posts PALO ALTO, Calif.--Milton Friedman was one of the very few intellectuals with both genius and common sense. He could express himself at the highest analytical levels to his fellow economists in academic publications and still write popular books such as "Capitalism and Freedom" and "Free to Choose" that could be understood by people who knew nothing about economics. Indeed, his television series, "Free to Choose," was readily understandable even by people who don’t read books. Milton Friedman may well have been the most important economist of the 20th century, even if John Maynard Keynes was the most famous. No small... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740722/posts#comment Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:33:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740629/posts Nov. 17, 2006 | "Lord, enlighten thou our enemies," prayed 19th century British economist and moral philosopher John Stuart Mill in his "Essay on Coleridge." "Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers. We are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom: their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength."For every left-of-center American economist in the second half of the 20th century, Milton Friedman (1912-2006), Nobel Prize winner, founder of the conservative "Chicago School" of economics and advisor to Republicans from Goldwater to Reagan, was the incarnate... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740629/posts#comment Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:32:33 GMT