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Ken Kurson at Reason’s Hit & Run blog asks the question de jour: “So why are Americans—the inventors of Google, the assembly line, and the Pocket Fisherman—suddenly so willing to ditch all we’ve known and put our trust in Nancy… [Read the rest]

Naomi Klein, Friedman polemicist, has a newish interview in the New Yorker magazine in which she tries to equate the horrible results of communist/socialist ideology (i.e. that enforced under the rule of Stalin, Hitler and others) to the horrible… [Read the rest]

Austrian economist F.A. Hayek had a term for the belief that knowledgeable, sophisticated people could plan for an ideal outcome. He called it the “fatal conceit,” and even wrote an entire book on the subject. His thesis was… [Read the rest]

In the latest of a series of anti-Friedman events at the University of Chicago, CORES, Students for CORES and some other statist groups are hosting independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for a lecture on how the lack… [Read the rest]

A recent Slate.com article by Jacob Weisberg has been getting a lot of attention among free market types over the past couple of days. You can get the gist of the piece from its title: “The End… [Read the rest]

He said it himself. Watch the video.

“I never characterize myself as a conservative economist. As I understand the English language, ‘conservative’ means conserving, keeping things as they are. I don’t want to keep things as they are. The true… [Read the rest]

We posted before about economic historian Johan Norberg’s October 2008 Reason Magazine article that discusses Naomi Klein’s misguided critique of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. (Read it in its entirety here).

But now you can download… [Read the rest]

There’s nothing like unintentional alliteration in the morning.

Anyway, if you want to print some pro-Friedman literature to put under windshield wipers please consider downloading our flyer. We handed this–and another piece–out on Wednesday at the Naomi Klein event. It… [Read the rest]

Check out C-SPAN 3 on cable or the ‘net to catch a Friedman marathon that a friend just told me about!

http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_rm.aspx

I don’t know how much longer it’s going to last…

These statements are paraphrased from the Oct. 1st Naomi Klein event.

Hummers bring out Klien’s “nasty side.”

Her feelings on Hummers have changed recently with the increase of the price of gas.

There are many reasons to oppose the MFI–it’s… [Read the rest]