The passing of the great free market theorist Milton Friedman and the big problems of Airbus, a heavily subsidized European consortium, seem like a classic case of synchronicity — the occurrence of two seemingly random events that are subtly connected...

What Keynes said was true of economist Milton Friedman, who died last week at 94, except that Friedman's immense influence emerged well before his death...

Milton Friedman, arguably the best known and most influential free-market economist in the world for the last 40 years, died in the San Francisco area Thursday at age 94...

It's a frequently observed paradox that Milton Friedman was simultaneously a great man -- he must now be acknowledged the outstanding economist of the 20th century, displacing John Maynard Keynes after a protracted struggle -- and physically a very small one...