tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post5713318508327837648..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Milton Friedman as Nothing But An Extended FootnoteRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-24613324726073960172013-08-09T13:24:55.613-04:002013-08-09T13:24:55.613-04:00Krugman published my comment which is essentially ...Krugman published my comment which is essentially identical to the above comment here:<br /><br />http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/milton-friedman-unperson/?comments#permid=87<br /><br />It includes my inadvertently omitted link to D. Kuehn's concession that his description of the Fed's funding of WWI is consistent with the Rothbardian narrative.Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-25877061138717095112013-08-09T12:23:59.020-04:002013-08-09T12:23:59.020-04:00This really says it all:
Think of it this way: Fr...This really says it all:<br /><br /><i>Think of it this way: Friedman was an avid free-market advocate, who insisted that the market, left to itself, could solve almost any problem. Yet he was also a macroeconomic realist, who recognized that the market definitely did not solve the problem of recessions and depressions. So he tried to wall off macroeconomics from everything else, and make it as Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-62313074872964583512013-08-09T10:18:45.763-04:002013-08-09T10:18:45.763-04:00Milton Friedman was God’s point man, that is God’s...Milton Friedman was God’s point man, that is God’s appointed one from eternity past, who called forth the Free to Choose, floating currency Banker Regime of democratic nation states; this economic genius encouraged President Nixon to go off the gold standard, and through inflationism create the US Dollar Hegemonic Empire that now rules the world. Milton Friedman’s contribution to liberalism was theyenguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08515095308836729043noreply@blogger.com