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A truly original thinker, Friedman is the author of a dazzling variety of ideas about how nations should cope with myriad matters of public policy. On the question of the international monetary system, Friedman for nearly two decades has been urging the adoption of freely moving exchange rates instead of...
(7 of 10) High-income people come off better. If you have property, you get the benefit of this, plus social security. The system redistributes income from the young (rich or poor) to the old (rich or poor). I think we ought to help the poor indiscriminately." GOVERNMENT PRIVILEGES. "All...
Some of the loopholes were deliberately allowed to stay open, authorities admit. Federal Reserve officials feared that if they had closed every gap in the regulations, some banks might have failed. In a banking system based on confidence, that might have touched off a financial panic, something that the Federal...
Investors were depressed by the fading of the unrealistic Viet Nam peace hopes that they had held in the spring, and more recently by warnings of a forthcoming economic decline. The worst depressant in the market undoubtedly has been tight money. The market frequently falls before recessions and rises when...
Economists tend to agree on the business profile for 1970: a rise in jobless ranks to 4¼% or 4½% of the labor force; 4% price inflation, probably tapering off toward year's end; sluggish 2% real growth in the over-all economy, which will expand from $933 billion to $985...