I've seen that clip several times before, but allowed it to get lost in the musty recesses of my memory. Thanks for digging it up.

I always enjoy those clips of him educating those who don't quite get it with their pie in the sky belief systems. Donahue was a liberal knob anyways.

Who has a deep understanding and who just spouts the platitudes and slogans but know little?

Thanks for posting again.

Uncle Miltie was the best. I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all. With the liberty of a fifth year, thanks to the Navy, I added Economics to Math as my undergraduate double major (wasn't really in any hurry to get to Vietnam anyway).

(02-07-2022 01:58 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  I always enjoy those clips of him educating those who don't quite get it with their pie in the sky belief systems. Donahue was a liberal knob anyways.

And he still is.

Donahue mostly backed out of the media-scrum about 25 years ago. But for those who remember, the “opposition” guests on his show were typically the least intelligent/articulate/ persuasive people he or his assistants could find. Destroying such people in debate may have flattered his ego, but it left him utterly unprepared for the likes of Friedman.

(02-07-2022 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Uncle Miltie was the best.

He really was. Although, I’ve only heard the title “Uncle Miltie” used to describe Milton Berle. Did Friedman use that one, too?

Quote:I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all.

Was that assigned reading for a class?

(02-07-2022 05:28 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 01:58 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  I always enjoy those clips of him educating those who don't quite get it with their pie in the sky belief systems. Donahue was a liberal knob anyways.

And he still is.

Donahue mostly backed out of the media-scrum about 25 years ago. But for those who remember, the “opposition” guests on his show were typically the least intelligent/articulate/ persuasive people he or his assistants could find. Destroying such people in debate may have flattered his ego, but it left him utterly unprepared for the likes of Friedman.

(02-07-2022 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Uncle Miltie was the best.

He really was. Although, I’ve only heard the title “Uncle Miltie” used to describe Milton Berle. Did Friedman use that one, too?

Quote:I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all.

Was that assigned reading for a class?

what I find amusing?! …

1. 99.x % have zero clue about his ‘solution(s)’

it gets mo’ buttererererer…

2. 99.9x couldn’t give a shite

now, go sell “TTTHAT” in any MKT capacity … I triple dare, ya…

(02-07-2022 06:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 05:28 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 01:58 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  I always enjoy those clips of him educating those who don't quite get it with their pie in the sky belief systems. Donahue was a liberal knob anyways.

And he still is.

Donahue mostly backed out of the media-scrum about 25 years ago. But for those who remember, the “opposition” guests on his show were typically the least intelligent/articulate/ persuasive people he or his assistants could find. Destroying such people in debate may have flattered his ego, but it left him utterly unprepared for the likes of Friedman.

(02-07-2022 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Uncle Miltie was the best.

He really was. Although, I’ve only heard the title “Uncle Miltie” used to describe Milton Berle. Did Friedman use that one, too?

Quote:I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all.

Was that assigned reading for a class?

what I find amusing?! …

1. 99.x % have zero clue about his ‘solution(s)’

it gets mo’ buttererererer…

2. 99.9x couldn’t give a shite

now, go sell “TTTHAT” in any MKT capacity … I triple dare, ya…

Sadly you’re right

(02-07-2022 07:20 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 06:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 05:28 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 01:58 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  I always enjoy those clips of him educating those who don't quite get it with their pie in the sky belief systems. Donahue was a liberal knob anyways.

And he still is.

Donahue mostly backed out of the media-scrum about 25 years ago. But for those who remember, the “opposition” guests on his show were typically the least intelligent/articulate/ persuasive people he or his assistants could find. Destroying such people in debate may have flattered his ego, but it left him utterly unprepared for the likes of Friedman.

(02-07-2022 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Uncle Miltie was the best.

He really was. Although, I’ve only heard the title “Uncle Miltie” used to describe Milton Berle. Did Friedman use that one, too?

Quote:I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all.

Was that assigned reading for a class?

what I find amusing?! …

1. 99.x % have zero clue about his ‘solution(s)’

it gets mo’ buttererererer…

2. 99.9x couldn’t give a shite

now, go sell “TTTHAT” in any MKT capacity … I triple dare, ya…

Sadly you’re right

it's why I'm a love/hate relationshite within the slave --->>> laureate ... as the curtain of irony is 'drawn', myself was never the 'reveal'...

#zeroPunchesPulled @alwaysLaughedDownstream #should'veBeenBornAjew

to the point in context... #1 is beyond repair ... hence, #2 is unsolvable in today's schema ... #1 was already dead....

it's only a question of "when/how" the 'full collapse' happens at this point ...#hence,Costa

when the #s overwhelm in the context of mob rules, one can only run so far ... don't kid yourself, ya better be able to live off the land in more ways than one....

Friedman and Harry Browne pretty much cemented my belief system.

(02-07-2022 05:28 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(02-07-2022 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Uncle Miltie was the best.

He really was. Although, I’ve only heard the title “Uncle Miltie” used to describe Milton Berle. Did Friedman use that one, too?

A bunch of us who studied him, and considered ourselves followers of his, used it. I agree that the term is more commonly used for Berle.

Quote:

Quote:I remember in my junior year, reading CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM and thinking, holy crap, this is the first thing I've read since I've been here that made any sense at all.

Was that assigned reading for a class?

Yep. ECON 201, taught by Gordon Tullock, who was an economic adviser to the Barry Goldwater campaign. We thought Tullock was a pompous ass, but loved Friedman.

Along about page 39 in CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM, Friedman gives a laundry list of what government should and should not do. Updated for today's issues, that would be a wonderful starting point for a republican platform.