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Name: Milton Friedman

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Save the Planet - Bloomberg

Bloomberg The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Save the Planet Bloomberg Businesses need focus only on increaing their profits, as long as they stay "within the rules of the game, which is to say, engage in open and free competition without ... [Published Bloomberg via Google News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Milton Friedman, Deception, Fraud

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Exit versus Voice

Malcolm Gladwell has written a very good piece for the New Yorker about Jeremy Adelman’s biography of Albert O. Hirschman. Below the fold, I provide a thought provoking quote and contrast how a Chicago economist thinks versus how Dr. Hirschman approaches ... [Published The Reality-Based Community - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Milton Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell, Albert O. Hirschman, University of Chicago Press

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

Why Government Spending Does Nothing for Jobs

While most economists and policy makers are focusing on the International Monetary Fund’s epiphany on the perils of austerity, some researchers at the IMF have offered another take on the fiscal-policy debate. They found that less is more, even when it ... [Published Bloomberg - 15 hours ago]

Entities: International Monetary Fund, Caroline Baum, Gross Domestic Product, Milton Friedman, Taxes

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Home ownership linked to unemployment

It is an empirical fact that countries or regions where home ownership is higher tend to have higher rates of unemployment. A possible explanation is that people who own their own homes are less mobile, less flexible, less able to respond to opportunities, ... [Published Politics.ie - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Unemployment, Ireland, Milton Friedman

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 1 reports

Paul Volker

Unshackling the Fed

The stage was thus set for the final “run” on the dollar and for a spectacular default by the designated “reserve currency” provider under the gold exchange standard’s second outing. And as it happened, the American people saw fit to install in the White ... [Published Mises.org - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Friedman's Inc, Paul Volker, Federal Reserve System, Milton Friedman

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Elbert Guillory: Why I Chose To Become A Republican

Favorites: Thomas Sowell, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Barone, Jonah Goldberg, Dan Henninger, Kim Strassel, Robert Samuelson, Dan Mitchell, John Hawkins, Shelby Steele, Brian Lamb, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Hayak, Monty ... [Published CNWeekly.com - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Shelby Steele, Brian Lamb, Dan Mitchell, Robert Samuelson

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

Ben Bernanke

Obama on Bernanke: Thanks for Coming. Now it’s Time to Go!

President Barack Obama stated yesterday that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed in his position “longer than he [Bernanke] wanted”. Some will be probably agreeing with Bernanke (and Obama) more than he might have expected after having said ... [Published Zero Hedge - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

New: Jobs Are Not the Answer

PM The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there willnever again be enough jobs for everyone who wants one ... [Published Berkeley Daily Planet - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Charles Murray, Milton Friedman, Social Welfare

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Ryan Bourne Cutting public sector jobs doesn't send unemployment soaring

Receive daily updates with our mid-morning newsletter WHILE visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, Milton Friedman observed a canal being built. As he walked around, he became perturbed by the lack of tractors or modern machinery. Instead, there were ... [Published City A.M. - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Unemployment, Milton Friedman, Left Wing, Will Hutton

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Abstract Immigrants

) ImmigrationOne of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerable facts about particular immigrant groups. ... [Published Capitalism Magazine - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Noted for June 17, 2103

Paul Krugman: Taylor's Rule on Fiscal Policy : "I just happened to run across John Taylor’s latest… Taylor now says that we should not cite falling spending by state and local governments as a reason for the weak recovery. Why? Because, he says, such ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: John Taylor, Income Inequality, Invention, Smuggling

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 2 reports

CRB: The Road to Freedom

( )The Spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here ) is out with the magazine’s usual ration of high-quality reviews and essays. Yesterday we previewed Colin Dueck’s review/essay on the folly of liberals, who mistook the end of the ... [Published Power Line - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Friedman's Inc

Quotes

Basic income is not a new idea. It's been debated among policymakers in several nations since the 1970s. Economist Milton Friedman said: "we should replace the ragbag of specific welfare programs with a single comprehensive program of income supplements in cash -- a negative income tax."

New: Jobs Are Not the Answer [Published Berkeley Daily Planet - Jun 18 2013]

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Dark Side of Wall Street [Published Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago]
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Sav... [Published Bloomberg via Google News - 2 hours ago]
Water committee hobbled [Published My Soutex - 4 hours ago]
To Twist Noses and Advance the Good [Published LewRockwell.com - 9 hours ago]
There are no free lunches [Published Smart Investor - 9 hours ago]
Right Thinking: It’s time for some corrections [Published Oklahoma Journal Record - 10 hours ago]
Exit versus Voice [Published The Reality-Based Community - 10 hours ago]
Why Government Spending Does Nothing for Jobs [Published Bloomberg - 15 hours ago]
Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the... [Published RINF.com - 15 hours ago]
Ann Coulter Quotes Brimelow: Says "ALL NATIONS ... [Published VDare - 16 hours ago]
G8: Smile! [Published Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago]
Home ownership linked to unemployment [Published Politics.ie - 21 hours ago]
Ryan Avent: The negative rates we need [Published SeekerBlog - 22 hours ago]
Bankers: Do not Pass GO, Do Not Collect million... [Published Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago]
Economic Recovery: Modernising Money [Published The Ecologist - Jun 19 2013]
'Decriminalising ganja could benefit Jamaica' [Published Jamaica Gleaner - Jun 19 2013]
Unshackling the Fed [Published Mises.org - Jun 19 2013]
Coulter: U.S. 'finished' if amnesty passes [Published WorldNetDaily - Jun 19 2013]
Stock-Market Crashes Through the Ages – Part II... [Published Zero Hedge - Jun 19 2013]
Elbert Guillory: Why I Chose To Become A Republ... [Published CNWeekly.com - Jun 18 2013]
Instead of Free Trade, Have the Transatlantic T... [Published Cato @ Liberty - Jun 18 2013]
Instead of Free Trade, Have the Transatlantic T... [Published Forbes.com - Jun 18 2013]
Obama on Bernanke: Thanks for Coming. Now it’s ... [Published Zero Hedge - Jun 18 2013]
Obama on Bernanke: Thanks for Coming. Now it’s ... [Published Zero Hedge - Jun 18 2013]
RIP, American Dream? Why It's So Hard For the P... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Jun 18 2013]
New: Jobs Are Not the Answer [Published Berkeley Daily Planet - Jun 18 2013]
Ryan Bourne Cutting public sector jobs doesn't ... [Published City A.M. - Jun 18 2013]
Noted for June 18, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - Jun 18 2013]
Noted for June 18, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jun 18 2013]
Congress Should Be Dancing to the Tune of the T... [Published Moneynews - Jun 18 2013]

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Dark Side of Wall Street [Published Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago] Follow ZeroHedge in Real time on FinancialJuice Not so long ago, the Mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg stated that people who read the Wall Street Journaldon’t get killed. It came in the wake of yet another bout of US pangs of questioning ...
Exit versus Voice [Published The Reality-Based Community - 10 hours ago] Malcolm Gladwell has written a very good piece for the New Yorker about Jeremy Adelman’s biography of Albert O. Hirschman. Below the fold, I provide a thought provoking quote and contrast how a Chicago economist thinks versus how Dr. Hirschman approaches ...
G8: Smile! [Published Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago] Follow ZeroHedge in Real time on FinancialJuice Apparently, the highlight of the round-up of the G8 summit in Lough Erne might just have been that David Cameron went for a morning dip to swim a couple of lengths. That’s about as far as he might ...
Ryan Avent: The negative rates we need [Published SeekerBlog - 22 hours ago] I like this formulation of NGDPLT: The negative rates we need David Beckworth responds to Mr Garcia with an idea to operationalise the fiscalist-monetarist synthesis: First, the Fed adopts a NGDP level target. Doing so would better anchor nominal ...
Bankers: Do not Pass GO, Do Not Collect million... [Published Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago] Follow ZeroHedge in Real time on FinancialJuice A new banking report is published today in the UK. There are jobs that nobody wants to do really, aren’t there? As your kids are growing up, you hope they don’t ask you one day to come and sit down ...

Audio/Video

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Opinion: Why Illegal Immigration Is Good [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - May 31 2013]
Jason Brennan, "Libertarianism: What Everyone N... [Published CSPAN - YouTube - Jan 17 2013]