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Milton Friedman was a paid real estate lobbyist and PR hack
2012 Nov 17, 2:24pm 1,694 views 2 comments
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taxee
2012 Nov 18, 1:01am
taxee
2012 Nov 18, 1:01am
'Brotherhood of the Bell' is a chilling 'story' worth a watch: http://www.dkyfkqClECU
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Patrick
2025 Apr 22, 9:11am
Patrick
2025 Apr 22, 9:11am
Friedman may have been corrupt, but he was pretty smart and funny as well:
"...One episode in Milton Friedman's career not celebrated (or even acknowledged) at last week's centennial took place in 1946, the same year Friedman began peddling his pro-business "free market economics" ideology.
According to Congressional hearings on illegal lobbying activities '46 was the year that Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public.
The arrangement between Friedman and Stigler with the Washington real estate lobbyist was finally revealed during he Buchanan Committee hearings on illegal lobbying activities in 1950. But then it was almost entirely forgotten, including apparently by those celebrating the "Milton Friedman Centennial" last week in Chicago. ..."