{"id":21022,"date":"2024-08-30T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21022"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:38:38","slug":"free-to-choose-friday-revisited-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/30\/free-to-choose-friday-revisited-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the Presidential election but ten weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman&#8217;s ten-part\u00a0<em>Free to Choose\u00a0<\/em>each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first episode:\u00a0<em>The Power of the Market<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D3N2sNnGwa4?si=H-Fjv2Qark8wgyT4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8216;Til next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/free-to-choose-milton-friedman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/free-to-choose-milton-friedman.jpg 459w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/free-to-choose-milton-friedman-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 1)\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"With the Presidential election but ten weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman's ten-part\u00a0Free to Choose\u00a0each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/free-to-choose-milton-friedman.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the Presidential election but ten weeks away, this is a good time to revisit Milton Friedman&#8217;s ten-part\u00a0Free to Choose\u00a0each Friday before the election as a reminder of why politically good sounding policies are often bad economics. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first episode:\u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/30\/free-to-choose-friday-revisited-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[15,59,67,33],"class_list":["post-21022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-economy","tag-free-to-choose","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21024,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21022\/revisions\/21024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}