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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most influential figures in U.S. history was the economist Milton Friedman ... The recession was orchestrated by the Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker, who had been appointed by ...

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 ...