John Fund on the charm of Milton Friedman, streaming Free to Choose
and the man behind the series, Bob Chitester.
Economics & Finance
Johnny Cash Would Have Understood James Webb
Spaced over several months, Netflix has been bringing us a series of Johnny Cash – at Montreaux, in Scotland, in Austin. Tonight we saw him in Ireland. These have been enjoyable and at times riveting. They tend to repeat themselves, but on this tour he clearly moved his audience (silently mouthing the words) with one he didn’t sing in the others, “Forty Shades of Green.”
Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes
Great idea and very clever on Google’s part. Not for nothing is Google’s stock at all-time highs.
(via Chris Masse)
Questioning Assumptions: Taxes and Expropriation of Financial Assets
Your analysis is good. But what happens if the assumptions on which you base your analysis change? Carl from Chicago explains how the analyses on which much conventional tax- and retirement-planning advice is based can fall apart if lawmakers change the rules of the game. Carl points out that the rules have been changed before and probably will be again. The conventional advice no longer looks so wise.
Milton Friedman in Iceland
Via a commenter on David Friedman’s post that I mentioned here comes this link to a video of a 1984 appearance by Milton Friedman on Icelandic TV. I’ve started watching it and it looks good. (It’s always a pleasure to watch Friedman in good debating form.) FWIW, the questioner in the two-toned sweater is now president of Iceland. Maybe he learned something from Friedman.