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After President Donald Trump imposed broad tariffs, some of his left-wing critics began quoting economists like Milton Friedman, who adamantly believed in unilateral free trade. Friedman ...

Tesla CEO, and Department of Government Efficiency lead, Elon Musk takes a stand against Trump’s tariffs positive a viral Milton Friedman video on X. Meanwhile other top Wall street billionaires ...

"Wise words," wrote Elon Musk about this 1999 viral clip described as "Milton Friedman casually giving the blueprint for DOGE [the Department of Government Efficiency]" as he ticks off a list of ...

— Milton Friedman Decades ago, the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman stated bluntly that open borders and a welfare state are mutually exclusive. You can pick one. Not both.

Here’s Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel prize and was the most important economist of the 20th century, on tariffs: “We call a tariff a protective measure. It does protect; it protects the ...

In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish. As host Peter Robinson rattled off the Cabinet list, Friedman gave a blunt ...

A mother and her sixth-grade son paused to take in the scene while they walked past a Keith Haring sculpture in the ... by the conservative economist Milton Friedman, who first proposed school ...

The Tesla CEO on Wednesday pointed to famed economist Milton Friedman's opinion from decades ago about how bloated the government had become. "Milton Friedman was the best," Musk wrote in a post ...

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 ...

In a video that’s gone viral, the late Milton Friedman correctly asserts about inflation that “consumers don’t produce it,” and “producers don’t produce it.” Only for Friedman to go ...