Topic: Milton Friedman

It is an earnest body but you begin to wonder if the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the Nobel prize-winners, has a sense of irony.

Today is Saturday, July 31, the 213rd day of 2004 with 153 to follow.

Speculation has begun on the successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, due to leave office when his 14-year term as Federal Reserve Board member end

May import prices for the United States, announced Thursday, were up 1.6 percent over April. While that's a freak number caused by the oil price spike, the over

"I knew the program was succeeeding when they stopped calling it Reaganomics. (Laughter.) Today the American expansion is in its 34th consecutive month, and acr

Peruvian economist and author Hernando de Soto is the winner of this year's $500,000 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.

Health savings accounts, hailed by conservatives as a way to reduce healthcare costs and make consumers more thrifty by requiring them to spend their own money upfront, instead could result in people foregoing necessary medical treatment, critics say.

"FDR's folly" (Jim Powell, Crown Forum, $27.50) demonstrates, by use of economic rather than political analysis, that the majority of New Deal policies (and of president Herbert Hoover's economic policies) were counterproductive, and prolonged the Great D

Today is Thursday, July 31, the 212th day of 2003 with 153 to follow.

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