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It Takes An Earthquake: The Absurd Attacks on Milton Friedman for His Support of Chile

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Over 30 years ago Milton Friedman changed my way of looking at my career in one 5 minute meeting. He said "Anything as complicated as the seminar you just delivered is either wrong or irrelevant." Without that remark I would undoubtedly not be writing this blog. Friedman himself did little that ...

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Fighting Our Way Out of the Banking Crisis: Paulson Takes the Ball.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The Credit Crisis seems to be approaching its nadir, although it is clear that we will lose several more banks, perhaps many of the smaller “me too” banks, before this experience is over. We seem to be moving into a phase that happens in every crisis from war to basketball. ...

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