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]
The anonymous professor who introduced Naomi Klein last evening made a lengthy point that no one would stand up to debate Klein. This is patently false. FriedmanFacts.com contacted the organizers nearly two weeks prior to the event – when… [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]
People like to label and categorize. I get that. I do it, too. But the thing is that economic theories aren’t left wing or right wing–they’re purely academic until they’re put into policy. These ideas–ideological as they may later become–cannot… [Read the rest]
Although Swedish writer Johan Norberg has done an excellent job of discrediting the idea that Milton Friedman and his scholarship were responsible for Chilean violence, both in print and video, we can also see what Friedman himself said… [Read the rest]
This is one of my very favorite clips of Milton Friedman, taken from his 1980 PBS documentary series ‘Free to Choose.’ (Watch it all for free on IdeaChannel.tv.) It discusses how trade can bring various peoples together–sometimes unwittingly–due to… [Read the rest]
Some people are fond of making the argument that the US has a free market economic system today and that the way in which the government has “reformed” Iraq’s economy, for example, is in the free market mold.
Nothing could… [Read the rest]
Swedish author Johan Norberg sits down with reason.tv‘s Michael C. Moynihan to discuss Naomi Klein’s diastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Courtesy of Copious Dissent
