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- What would Milton Friedman do now? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303443904575578202202857136.html 15 comments
- The Financial Crisis & Bailout: What Would Milton Friedman Say? http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/16/milton-friedman-meltdown-oped-cx_pr_1017robinson.html?partner=rcp 4 comments politics
- Milton Friedman Would Hate Republican Libertarians http://www.salon.com/2013/07/31/milton_friedman_father_of_the_tea_party/ 7 comments politics
- Rand Paul is dead wrong. Milton Friedman would have supported the Fed’s bond buying http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/08/rand-paul-is-dead-wrong-milton-friedman-would-have-supported-the-feds-bond-buying/ 19 comments politics
- Milton Friedman Predicted Socialism Would Kill Democracy. Instead, Trump Is. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/how-trump-refutes-milton-friedmans-capitalism-and-freedom.html 165 comments politics
- The List: Five Lies My Economist Told Me (among which: Milton Friedman in 1992 stating the euro would never work) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3912 6 comments reddit.com
- Rand Paul Loves Milton Friedman, But Milton Friedman Would Have Hated Rand Paul - Matthew O'Brien http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/rand-paul-loves-milton-friedman-but-milton-friedman-would-have-hated-rand-paul/278589/ 5 comments politics
- Even Milton Friedman Would Oppose Trump’s Latest Federal Reserve Appointment | If the president gets his way, Judy Shelton will bring crackpot goldbuggery back to the central bank. https://newrepublic.com/article/158629/judy-shelton-donald-trump-federal-reserve 44 comments politics
- Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Board of Governors, apparently agrees with Friedman's assessment, saying in a 2002 speech: "I would like to say to Milton [Friedman] and Anna [J. Schwartz]: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/federal_reserve#historical_criticisms 6 comments reddit.com
- Milton Friedman: "I would like to be a zero-government libertarian, but I don't think it's a feasible social structure. I look over history, and outside of perhaps Iceland, where else can you find any historical examples of that kind of a system developing?" http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/best-of-both-worlds/singlepage 2 comments politics
- Asked about drug legalization and how it would effect society, Milton Friedman remarked "I see America with HALF the number of prisons, HALF the number of prisoners, 10,000 fewer homicides a year, inner cities in which there's a chance for poor people to live without being afraid for their lives" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nlscc0lzxky#t=126s 128 comments politics
- Asked about drug legalization and how it would effect society, Milton Friedman remarked "I see America with HALF the number of prisons, HALF the number of prisoners, 10,000 fewer homicides a year, inner cities in which there's a chance for poor people to live without being afraid for their lives" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nlscc0lzxky#t=126s 13 comments reddit.com