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The Latest Breaking News from Milton Friedman

The Road to Freedom by Joseph E Stiglitz review – a vision of progressive capitalism seems too little, too late

The Nobel-winning US economist’s championing of government intervention to nullify neoliberal excesses is ardently expressed but unconvincing

The Guardian - UK

The blinkered Bank of England plunged us into recession. It must cut interest rates now

City Voices: The Bank of England has kept interest rates too high for too long and we are all suffering as a result

Evening Standard

Rent Control Remains the Wrong Solution to Housing Woes

Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live.

Reason

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Barking Mad? Milei's Attachment To 'Dead' Dog Raises Sanity Worries

Does Javier Milei communicate with a ghost dog whose death he refuses to accept?

International Business Times

Is Javier Milei Making Argentina Great Again?

The new Argentine president is popular with American libertarians, but his record at home looks increasingly populist and authoritarian.

Reason

Doug Ducey on Budget Cuts, School Choice, and Arizona's Weird Politics

"Governors don't get to print money," the former Arizona governor tells Reason.

Reason

Elizabeth Warren's Terrible Model for Tech Regulation

Bad ideas never seem to truly die in Washington.

Reason

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Jennifer Burns: Why Milton Friedman Matters More Than Ever

The biographer of the Nobel laureate says he made us "free to choose" in areas far beyond economics.

Reason

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman's Legacy

Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?

Reason

The Californication of the country’s housing market

Record homelessness, sky-high rents, and homes affordable only to millionaires: A case study in how local control and a shifting national economy created today’s perverse housing market.

Fortune

Yes, Heavy Regulation Hurts the Economy. Just Look at France.

We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?

Reason

The Best of Reason: Milton Friedman Was No Conservative

A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.

Reason

Milton Friedman Was No Conservative

A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.

Reason

OPINION - The Women Who Made Modern Economics review: Rachel Reeves makes a strong point, if only it weren't so dull

She's bidding to be the next Chancellor, so what can we learn from this book?

Evening Standard

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If you’re in the 1% or middle class, inflation has actually made you richer, according to a top economist who’s been researching inequality for over 40 years

Yes, inflation is a tax on incomes, finds NYU’s Edward Nathan Wolff, but it also shrinks debt and can boost asset value, like that of homes.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Argentina’s presidential election: the danger to democracy is real

Editorial: Public spending hikes and pro-poor tax cuts might fix the economy and be popular enough to stop the far right

Fortune

Can Elon Musk really save the world?

Despite his success with electric vehicles, the billionaire has not won over environmentalists.

The Conversation

Living in the 70s: why Australia's dominant model of unemployment and inflation no longer works

As we approach the release of Monday’s employment white paper we can expect to hear a lot about something called the NAIRU – the so-called Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment.

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Reason

Free Market Book Misstates the History of Free Market Thought

Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.

The Guardian - US

‘Obama’s education legacy needs to be questioned’: the scholar fighting for reparations for Black students

Bettina Love believes decades of victimization, brutalization and belittlement of Black students by the US education system should be rectified with $2tn in reparations

Fortune

How America’s hotbed of progressive economics borrowed from Milton Friedman to pressure the ultrawealthy on climate change

U. Mass–Amherst's Jared Starr says shareholder supremacy can tackle the climate emergency: "How do we provide the right incentive for people on corporate boards and the executive C-suite?"

The Conversation

From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world

Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out?

Reason

The Chicago Boys' Deal With the Devil

The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s Labour are not the Tories. But they are timid

The opposition must accept there will be huge challenges if they win the election. But they do not have to accept Brexit

The Guardian - US

No Trade Is Free review: Trump’s man plots an unusually civil course

Robert Lighthizer, once US trade representative, is a rare aide of little interest to investigators. His readable book shows why

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