Comments on: My Friendly Fights with Dr. Friedman http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/ Mark Skousen's Website for the Best of Money and Economics Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Major Interview with Mark Skousen on His Life and Works in Economics, Finance and the Freedom Movement http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 Major Interview with Mark Skousen on His Life and Works in Economics, Finance and the Freedom Movement Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:34:20 +0000 http://www.mskousen.com/?p=769#comment-1223 [...] Over a twenty year period, up until the time of his death (2006), I engaged in quite a few friendly fights with Milton Friedman, primarily over paper money vs. the gold standard and Austrian theory of capital and the business cycle. I keep in my wallet Milton Friedman’s torn up $20 bill as proof of one such incident in New Orleans in the late 1990s. I also challenged Friedman at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Vancouver on his cure (“print more money”) for Japan’s economic ills. I tell these stories and more in an article I wrote on the subject for “Liberty” magazine in late 2007: http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/ [...] [...] Over a twenty year period, up until the time of his death (2006), I engaged in quite a few friendly fights with Milton Friedman, primarily over paper money vs. the gold standard and Austrian theory of capital and the business cycle. I keep in my wallet Milton Friedman’s torn up $20 bill as proof of one such incident in New Orleans in the late 1990s. I also challenged Friedman at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Vancouver on his cure (“print more money”) for Japan’s economic ills. I tell these stories and more in an article I wrote on the subject for “Liberty” magazine in late 2007: http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/ [...]

]]> By: P.M.Lawrence http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/comment-page-1/#comment-650 P.M.Lawrence Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:07:35 +0000 http://www.mskousen.com/?p=769#comment-650 "The great advances of civilization, whether in archi­tecture or painting, in science or in literature, in indus­try or agriculture, have never come from centralized government". We wouldn't have the works of Homer today if a tyrant of Athens hadn't arranged to have the oral tradition written down. “The great advances of civilization, whether in archi­tecture or painting, in science or in literature, in indus­try or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”.

We wouldn’t have the works of Homer today if a tyrant of Athens hadn’t arranged to have the oral tradition written down.

]]> By: Gold vs. Guns and Badges http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Gold vs. Guns and Badges Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:31:39 +0000 http://www.mskousen.com/?p=769#comment-642 [...] I learned at a dinner meeting with him back in the late 1990s. I don’t want to spoil your fun. Read about it halfway through this article. It’s about a $20 gold piece vs. a $20 Federal Reserve Note. I did not know what was coming. I was [...] [...] I learned at a dinner meeting with him back in the late 1990s. I don’t want to spoil your fun. Read about it halfway through this article. It’s about a $20 gold piece vs. a $20 Federal Reserve Note. I did not know what was coming. I was [...]

]]> By: Earl Jensen http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Earl Jensen Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:25:07 +0000 http://www.mskousen.com/?p=769#comment-641 What a good story about the $20 gold piece. Dr. Friedman was angry, as anyone would be, about his $20 bill being torn up, but no one is that angry about the government tearing up $19 of every $20 bill by inflation in the last 100 years. Funny how that works. Gary North linked to this column in today's (18 Mar 11) Lew Rockwell column. What a good story about the $20 gold piece. Dr. Friedman was angry, as anyone would be, about his $20 bill being torn up, but no one is that angry about the government tearing up $19 of every $20 bill by inflation in the last 100 years. Funny how that works. Gary North linked to this column in today’s (18 Mar 11) Lew Rockwell column.

]]> By: Mark Skousen's Top Ten Favorite Articles http://www.mskousen.com/2007/09/my-friendly-fights-with-dr-friedman/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Mark Skousen's Top Ten Favorite Articles Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:26:28 +0000 http://www.mskousen.com/?p=769#comment-427 [...] 2. My Friendly Fights with Milton Friedman [...] [...] 2. My Friendly Fights with Milton Friedman [...]

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