MILTON FRIEDMAN: Americans know very little about ... triggered by a later chairman of the Fed, Paul Volcker. And Reagan's courage in your judgment was to back him. At the time, at the depth ...

Why was Milton Friedman important ... who appointed the monetarist economist Paul Volcker as the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and left him free to tame inflation by restricting the money ...

The Federal Reserve’s New Debit Card Rule Threatens ... Fifty-two years ago today, the economist Milton Friedman issued a prophetic warning. Writing for the New York Times, he identified a ...

In a 1995 interview, I asked Milton Friedman whether "it would be preferable to abolish the Fed entirely and just have government stick to a monetary growth rule?" Friedman answered: "Yes ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. In a video that’s gone viral, the late Milton Friedman correctly asserts about inflation that “consumers don’t produce it,” and ...

FOR years, the maverick views of Milton Friedman ... In addition, the Federal Reserve tries to use its monetary powers to moderate the ups and downs of U.S. business. But Friedman says that ...

Milton Friedman, professor of economics at the ... guaranteeing equal wages to women ("antifeminist") the Federal Reserve Board ("it has never worked"), the draft ("an invasion of privacy ...

Though standing around five feet tall, Milton Friedman was a giant among economists in the 20th century. Arguably only John Maynard Keynes walked as easily in the halls of power, academia ...

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” Milton Friedman once said ... MMT has converted the Fed into a massive instrument of wealth redistribution—from hard working ...

This should help the bank avoid accusations of a conflict of interest, constant during the financial crisis and its aftermath, particularly after then N.Y. Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman was ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument ...