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Central Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the…
- The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is…
- Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique…
- The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third…
- The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market…
- The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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- The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges
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- It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help… — James Buchan