Milton Friedman

Economics Economics Questions
1

Did he ever endorse the gold standard? I was told he did but I can’t find anything that supports that claim.

2

According to Mark Skousen’s Vienna & Chicago, he did. I remember DAdalton from the older Austrian forum also mentioning that he came to espouse the gold standard. I guess contacting either of them would be a way to find out where he did this exactly.

3

Yet, Milton Friedman is a radical advocate of cutting all current ties, however weak, with gold, and going onto a total and absolute fiat dollar standard, with all control vested in the Federal Reserve System.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard43.html

4

After he had been instrumental in administrations from Nixon to Reagan ingraining fiat currency and the federal reserve, he figured out he was wrong about the gold standard, I think. Can’t remember where I read that though.

5

And yet too, just before he died, he reiterated that his monetarist program was the way to go.

6

I don’t how to contact them [:$]