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Giuliani, Romney Spell Out Tax Cuts, Sidestep Spending Curbs

with Michael J. Boskinvia Bloomberg
Friday, November 16, 2007

The leading Republican presidential candidates are promising to shower Americans with tax cuts while returning to the balanced budgets of years past...

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Snip, snip, chop, chop, you too can trim budget

with Milton Friedmanvia Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Pick up your scissors...

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Another view: Dollar's slide boosts exports

with Milton Friedmanvia USA Today
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Policymakers shouldn't waste time worrying about a falling dollar...

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Bernanke Parts the Curtains, But Will the View Be Clearer?

with Milton Friedmanvia Barron's Online
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Let's not beat around the bush: I think transparency at the Federal Reserve is a terrible idea...

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Is the Iraq War Costlier Than Doing Nothing?

with Gary S. Beckervia US News and World Report
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

The Democratic study on the "real costs" of the wars in Iraq ($1.3 trillion) and Afghanistan ($300 billion) from 2002 through 2008 will almost assuredly lead to a common perceptual pitfall...

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Currency fluctuations cannot be eliminated, but they can be limited

with Milton Friedmanvia Daily Star
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

"Dollar denial," that state of willful blindness in which bankers and central bankers claim not to be worried about America's falling currency, seems to be ending...

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'The ECB Has Done a Perfect Job'

with Milton Friedmanvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

The Wall Street Journal's Joellen Perry spoke with Otmar Issing, a former executive board member at the European Central Bank, on issues ranging from the ECB's performance and the euro to the recent credit-market turmoil...

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The Big Con, Indeed

with Robert J. Barrovia New York Sun
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

As the Democrats prepare to attempt one of the largest tax increases in American history, their allies in the press corps are softening the ground with a campaign against the ideological underpinnings of the Bush tax cuts...

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Taxpayers United Thanks Congress for Extending Ban on Internet Access Tax

with Milton Friedmanvia PR Newswire
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

"Michiganians won't have to worry during the next seven years about tax hiking politicians in our State Capitol imposing a tax on e-mail and instant messages transmitted on our home personal computers (PCs)," stated Bill McMaster, State Chairman (Volunteer), Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation...

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Dissent on Bernanke

with Milton Friedmanvia American
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Today’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting comes two weeks after the U.S. Treasury prodded major banks to create a $60-$100 billion structured credit facility to shore up the asset-backed commercial paper market...

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