01 July 2011

Great Recession cooks Friedman and Keynes

Great idea. Let's give mare freedom to a group that is already free of oversight and does not have to answer to the People. End the Fed!

Commentary: Two great theories, neither up to today's task

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Some of the biggest names in economics gathered at the University of Chicago in November 2002 for a 90th birthday celebration of the brightest star of them all. Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate and seminal thinker, was returning to the university where he had made his name.

One of the speakers was a Federal Reserve governor, Ben S. Bernanke. In a scholarly address, he endorsed Friedman's view that the Fed was instrumental in causing the Great Depression with a tight monetary policy that turned a contraction into something much, much worse.



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