SAN FRANCISCO — Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who championed individual freedom, influenced the economic policies of three presidents and befriended world leaders, died Thursday. He ...
Q: How many economists from the Chicago School of free-market economics does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. If the lightbulb needed changing, the free market would have changed it already.
Milton Friedman and the Monetarists believed that fluctuations in the money supply caused the boom-and-bust business cycles.
Today marks the 113th birthday of economist Milton Friedman, one of history’s most consequential free-market advocates. Reflecting on the work of Friedman this year reminds us how much more sound and ...
Why couldn’t Donald Trump ignore his campaign promises like a normal president? A painful economy is growing only more painful because Trump has it in his head for years that tariffs are a good idea.
Liberal economist and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman disagrees with the late conservative economist Milton ...