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Milton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video

Free To Choose Network · 1.5M views · 2016-03-21 · 1:26:04

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Overview

An 86-minute Milton Friedman talk arguing that inflation is a monetary phenomenon caused by money supply growing faster than goods, and that the cure is less government spending and money printing.

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Shared during inflation discussions as an accessible, layman-friendly statement of the monetarist view.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2022–2025

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Macroeconomics & financial crisesMicroeconomics & behavioral economics
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yevpats · 2022-08 · Strong recommendation

Milton Friedman - Money and Inflation - [VIDEO] I think is under rated talk which explains complex stuff in layman terms.

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Mertax · 2022-06 · Recommendation

I watched this video from Friedman just a couple of days ago and found it insightful on the topic of inflation: [VIDEO]

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_448 · 2022-05 · Recommendation

- Militarisation. Countries are spending a lot of defence. - The move towards reverting globalisation(with rising unemployment, countries are looking inwards) - Inflation (this is not going to end in the near future; inflation is the result of quantitative easing that was done multiple times. Here is a good explanation of that: [VIDEO] ) - Differences among citizens of different countries are becoming prominent (the reason is the same as point #2 above)

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