Milton Friedman, the patron saint of free markets and a founder of the Nobel-adorned Chicago school of economics, took a very dim view of all tariffs — ours, theirs, anyone's. Writing in ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday, fielding questions about ...

After watching Milton Friedman in sepia tone and wondering if nuance had an expiry date. Watch: Milton Friedman noted that ...

As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist Milton Friedman, "Many aspects of our contemporary world that today seem commonplace have their origins in one ...

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was at once an accomplished academic economist, an adviser to U.S. presidents and cabinet officials, and a widely read columnist. He won the Nobel Prize in 1976.

While campaigning for President in 2020, Joe Biden declared, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore” in an interview with Politico. Yet 17 years after the economist’s death ...

Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Was Friedman a micro or macroeconomist? Both. His early work on price theory established the power of markets and the ...

Tech magnate Elon Musk protested Monday against President Trump’s barrage of tariffs on foreign imports by reposting the late libertarian economist Milton Friedman’s famous “pencil speech.” ...

In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish. As host ...

Today marks the 112th birthday of economist Milton Friedman, one of history’s most consequential free-market advocates. Reflecting on the work of Friedman this year reminds us how much more ...

In her account of the destructiveness of inflationary policies (“How Inflation Ended Neoliberalism,” op-ed, Nov. 16), Jennifer Burns asserts that Milton Friedman “would likely have supported ...