America’s foremost spokesman for liberty, the great Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, has died at the age of 94.
Update: I was privileged to meet Dr. Friedman my last year of law school, when Chapman University dedicated a bust of him on the c…

Pinochet launched an era of deregulation of business and privatization. To accomplish his objectives, he abolished the minimum wage, rescinded trade union rights, privatized the pension system, state industries, and banks, and lowered taxes on income and profits. Supporters of these policies (most notably Milton Friedman himself) have dubbed them “The Miracle of Chile”, due to the country’s sustained economic growth since the late 1980s.

Friedman did nothing wrong in regard to Pinochet.

Milton Friedman, Nobel prize winner for economics, and noted libertarian has passed away. In his honor, I present an episode of Open Mind in which Mr. Friedman provides a persuasive argument for limited government. In fact, this Google Video claims……

Even the dry & uninspired treatment of his work in my high school textbook couldn’t disguise the utter superiority of his ideas and understanding of the world.

And I’m still amazed he was with us this long. Life expectancy being what it is, I had only expected him to live another 3 to 5 years after I first came to know about him. Even that would have been a a gift, given his contributions till then.

What a blessing it is – and no small miracle – he was with us until age 94 (and 20 yrs. of my adult life no less). Whoa!

Something makes me doubt Friedman cared about any of the thousands that were murdered under his buddy, Augusto Pinoche. So forgive me for sounding cold, but I can’t bring myself to care about his death.

Grebrook on November 16, 2006 at 1:34 PM

WTF???
What in the world?

Somebody’s been borrowing model rocket glue from Christopher Hitchens…without borrowing some of his brains.
Disgraceful.
The Libs never miss an opporutunity to tear down the truly great and move the goal posts.

Milton Friedman passes at age 94. The man forgot more about economics then most people will ever know. Video at Hot Air. …

Damn! I so would’ve liked to have met him.

R I P

Something make me doubt Grebrook actually cared when the Wilson government assisted in the deaths of 800,000 Ibos in Biafra, when Chomsky covered up for Pol Pot and Chairman Mao, and when all his buddies praised Stalin.

You’re absolutely right. I don’t care. Largely because I don’t read Noam Chomsky or sympathize with him.

Just feel the love from the party of tolerance and peace.

I felt sad of the news. Probably is time to get a supercharge by rereading the Road to Serfdom and Free to Chose.

Comparing Friedman with Krugman is like comparing the Pacific Ocean to a mud puddle.

Heartfelt sympathy to his family.

Michelle and Allah tip us off to the passing of a great man. Milton Friedman passed away at the age of 94. From The Friedman Foundation:INDIANAPOLIS—Today, upon news of the death of Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman, Gordon St. Angelo, pr…

honora, I also had the privilege to meet him (he lived not far from me, just a bit North, in Southern Calif.) during a speech and a Q&A and chatting afterwards. Same impression.

Grebrook, you are beyond cold. I don’t have time to relate to you about real suffering in communism, from my own experience.

Never, ever, ever, will socialism and communism be better than what Mr. Friedman preached and lived. And no one, but no one, who hasn’t lived it, can tell me differently. Theory and utopia don’t count.

A giant died and we’re forever grateful the world was privileged to have him.