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ALEXANDER: Nobel Prize Winner Milton Friedman Merits Praise in Age of Socialism

5o years ago, economist Milton Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.  Friedman distinguished himself with his belief in free-market capitalism with minimal government...

Who Needs Central Planning When We Have Conservatives?

Milton Friedman's monetarism is Keynesianism’s something-for-nothing variant.

We Must Put To Bed The Milton Friedman Myth About The Great Depression

Short of erecting impregnable police states, governments can’t keep exchange media from circulating where exchange takes place.

Milton Friedman & Keynes Both Thought Government Could Stop Recessions

Resource-bereft governments that most certainly cannot increase “demand” through spending can hardly do so via monetary policy.

Friedman: Self-destruction is on the ballot this November

"Trump profits as a strongman running America as his fiefdom."

Comment on Is Keynesianism dead? Far from it – it provides the life support for a crisis-ridden capitalism by MrShigemit...

Re: Haldane's commentary - the famous Upton Sinclair quote, which I am sure all here are familar with, applies.

Michael Woodford Wins Nobel

No one since Milton Friedman has done more to shape how central bankers think about their jobs than Michael Woodford. Woodford’s Interest and Prices (2003) has been called the cent...

The Problem Isn’t Warsh Vs Bessent, It’s PhD Confusion About Inflation

Kevin Warsh can hardly complain about what Scott Bessent is doing, other than if he rightly disdains the weak, inflationary dollar that Bessent is pursuing.

Breitbart Business Digest: A Nobel for an Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has honored the godfather of forward guidance just as central bankers are putting his most famous policy prescription into retirement. The pos...

Warsh's Best Move Is To Do Nothing

Beholden to mainstream economic ideas, the US Federal Reserve Chair has committed himself, and his reputation, to a goal he cannot achieve. Reining in inflation requires not intere...

Michael Woodford, Nobel Laureate

I think of Michael Woodford as the kind of economist who studies something very specific very intensively and tries to get it just right.  But in his case he is not studying someth...

Quote of the Day, September 2, 2026

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” – Milton Friedman The post Quote of the Day, September 2,...

A Nobel for Microfoundations

This year, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, colloquially called the Nobel Prize in Economics, went to Robert E. Hall of Stanford Universi...

Is Keynesianism dead?

When debt is the disease, fiscal medicine may be as likely to harm as heal

Comment on Is Keynesianism dead? Far from it – it provides the life support for a crisis-ridden capitalism by MartinD

The Post WW2 period also delivered major gains in prosperity and declining prosperity because should be The Post WW2 period also delivered major gains in prosperity and declinin...

Naked Capitalism Has Outlasted Larry Summers

Per Max Planck, science progresses one funeral at a time. Does economics advance bit by bit via career deaths of neoliberals like Larry Summers?

The Federal Reserve’s Nonsense Policy

Between 1950 and 1970, Per Capita National Income (basically wages) in Japan rose 15% per year compounded, while the CPI rose 4.8%. The Bank of Japan did nothing.

No Country Makes Its Own Inflation

Sixty years of data show inflation moving in step across the world. Economic theory still treats it as a national affair.

A nudge here and there, rather than heavy handed interventions to unleash growth: ALEX BRUMMER

As a Downing Street advisor to David Cameron, Republican candidate for governor of California Steve Hilton was an enthusiast for 'nudge' theory.

Bloomberg: Фридман удивился, что с него сняли европейские санкции

Снятие европейских санкций стало неожиданностью для российского миллиардера Михаила Фридмана, рассказал Bloomberg источник.

Local microeconomics

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Used AI

Druckenmiller blasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buyback expansion in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal.