re: #131 HappyWarrior

I’m not a Friedman but Friedman from what I know of him wasn’t telling people to ignore actual data at the expense of theory like Von Mises which is who nuts like Brat draw their real inspiration from.

Friedman also came up with the myth that the sole responsibility of the executive officers in a corporation was to increase shareholder value.

From wiki:
Friedman was an economic adviser to Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan. His political philosophy extolled the virtues of a free market economic system with minimal intervention. He once stated that his role in eliminating U.S. conscription was his proudest accomplishment, and his support for school choice led him to found The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and education vouchers.[10] His ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation …

He is a decidedly mixed bag, but he also was very influential in the “Chicago School” of economists, and an adviser to Reagan, so, no, he spawned shitheels like Brat.