Milton Friedman

Time to End "Bernanke Panky?"

Kevin Phillips | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Fed Cuts, JP Morgan, Milton Friedman, Impeachment, Bernanke Economy Recession, Federal Reserve, Fomc, Ben Bernanke, Business, Business News

Is Bernanke ready for a new round of 1932-style talk about abolishing the Fed or impeaching its leaders? Because at least three aspects of his Fed chairmanship have generated major controversy.

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When Profit, Freedom, and Creativity Collide

John S. Johnson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Craig Newmark, Milton Friedman, Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist.com, Freedom of Thought, Craiglist, Creative Accounting, Eyebeam, Business News

There are many powerful forces in our culture that aren't comfortable with real freedom. They believe in the "free market," but not in marketing freedom of thought. They love it as a slogan in a speech, but not when it is put into practice.

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What Can Still Tank the Economy? The Bush Administration Hearing No Evil, Seeing No Evil

Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Henry Paulson, Recession, Credit Crisis, Tom Sargent, Case-Shiller Index, Milton Friedman, Barney Frank, Barney Frank Plan, Business News

The Barney Frank mortgage plan isn't perfect. But the Bush administration should be talking about improving the plan, not resorting to ideological nonsense about minimal government interference.

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The End of the Age of Milton Friedman

Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Henry Paulson, Credit Crisis, Milton Friedman, Hyman Minsky, Adam Smith, Keynesian Economics, Bush Economy, Friedrich Van Hayek, Bill Clinton, U.S. Economy, Economy, Business News

There is a direct line from Milton Friedman's ascendancy in the 1970s to the debacle on Wall Street today.

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How Business Can Save The World

Boston Globe | Matthew Battles | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Responsibility, Organizational Behavior, Milton Friedman, World Peace, Philanthropy, Business News

When Milton Friedman famously stated that "the social responsibility of business is to increase profits," he furnished ammunition to both free market ...

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Is Bernanke Behind The Curve?

New York Times | ROGER LOWENSTEIN | Posted 01.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Mit, Milton Friedman, Central Banking, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Economy, Great Depression, Business News

Ben Bernanke's first exposure to monetary policy was reading the works of Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate. That was 30 years ago, when Bernanke wa...

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Which Side Are You On?

Larry Abrams | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Clinton Years, Michael Dukakis, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Structural Adjustment, McCain Iraq, Fdr New Deal, National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert Rubin, Hillary Electability, Rudy Giuliani, Ross Perot, John Edwards, Henry Paulson, Reagan Sandinistas, Hillary Clinton, Commodification, Free Market, Values Voters, Politics News

Getting rid of Bush will be good and great thing, but it doesn't make the case for Hillary Clinton. The problem with Hillary is that she doesn't really fit the political moment.

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My Unrequited Love for the Business Press

Naomi Klein | Posted 10.25.2007 | Business

Read More: Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Milton Friedman, Davos Dilemma, Financial TImes, Naomi Klein's New Book, Naomi Klein, Free Market, Disaster Capitalism, Capitalism, Business Journalism, Criticisms of Naomi Klein, Business News

When I get worried about inadvertently fueling the disaster complex, I take comfort in the response my book has elicited from the world's leading business journalists.

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Naomi Klein, Read Milton Friedman's Last Interview

Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Milton Friedman Interview, Politics News

Naomi Klein might be surprised by some of the things he told me in his last interview before he died at his apartment in San Francisco.

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