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David Slack

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:24:54 +1300

I'll stand corrected on the supply-sider question. My somewhat woolly justification is that you're to some extent judged by the company you keep, which was more or less what I was implying in the Thribb piece.

And I think that it still a tribute / which recognises the bitter sweet…

Don Christie

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:14:24 +1300

Last article I read by Freidman showed he was also a "flat taxer". Even Donald Regan (Reagan's Secretary of Treasury/Chief of Staff) thought flat tax was a ridiculous idea.

As an aside, Regan's description of the final years of the Reagan presidency are mind boggling.

Andre Alessi

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:36:23 +1300

Hmmm... now that I think about it some more, it might just be a bit marginal for work viewing, but only if your boss or organisation is quite sensitive.

Any orginisation that wouldn't let me view gay cat porn on company time is not an organisation I'd want to work…

Jason Kemp

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:16:37 +1300

I'm glad you had that link to the CNN story. Some of my friends thought your poem was a cheap shot – and they didn't like it.

Just in case people missed it http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/16/news/newsmakers/friedman/index.htm?cnn=yes

"Overseas, Friedman's work helped shape policies used in Chile in the 1970s. His influence raised eyebrows…

Terence Wood

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:05:44 +1300

this is pedantry (sorry). And I know that it was onlya poem.

But Freidman was not a 'Supply Sider' he was a Monetarist.

Span .

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:11:07 +1300

From Milton Friedman's death to gay kitty porn in just seven easy steps.

Gotta love that interwab.

Now hopefully jared (or jarrod, or whatever you are calling yourself these days, you false accuser you) stumbles across this thread, clicks on the link Deborah has so helpfully provided, and goes blind…

Deborah

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:37:50 +1300

BTW, this is ok to view at work.

Hmmm... now that I think about it some more, it might just be a bit marginal for work viewing, but only if your boss or organisation is quite sensitive.

Deborah

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:48:46 +1300

I guess it really is more than just porn and cat pictures.

Sometimes, Andre, you can find them both on one page.

BTW, this is ok to view at work.

Andre Alessi

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:44:42 +1300

I can honestly say I never expected a poetic eulogy to Milton Friedman to be something I'd find on the internet.

I guess it really is more than just porn and cat pictures.

Juha Saarinen

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:11:41 +1300

What band did Milt play in again?

Neil Smart

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:04:17 +1300

If Keynes was he Ying
Friedman was the Yang

Isn't balance great.
Friedman thought Keynes was a great theorist with a wrong Hypothesis

Milton and Rose Friedman: Wall St journal
BY TUNKU VARADARAJAN
Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:01

Had Keynes lived long enough to read Friedman's work in the fifties…

David Slack

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:19:57 +1300

Thank you Wendy. Consider yourself granted full and unfettered rights to deal with it as you wish.

My favourite tribute so far is from Harry Hutton

wendyf

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:07:32 +1300

Love your tribute! Can I send it on? (copyright and all that)

hamishm

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:36:53 +1300

So, he's gone. Is that the sound of weeping from Roger Douglas's house?
How long before the hagiographic biography from one of Americas finest writers, that Bill O'Reilly is a pretty good writer isn' t he?
I wonder what sort of party there will be in whatever afterlife Friedman goes…

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Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:36:53 +1300

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