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Milton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video
An 86-minute Milton Friedman talk arguing that inflation is a monetary phenomenon caused by money supply growing faster than goods, and that the cure is less government spending and money printing.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared during inflation discussions as an accessible, layman-friendly statement of the monetarist view.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Free To Choose Network
- Topic
- inflation and monetary policy
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Milton Friedman - Money and Inflation - [VIDEO] I think is under rated talk which explains complex stuff in layman terms.
yevpats on Hacker News · 2022-08
In What to read to understand how economists think- Militarisation. Countries are spending a lot of defence. - The move towards reverting globalisation(with rising unemployment, countries are looking inwards) - Inflation (this is not going to end in the near future; inflation is the result of quantitative easing that was done multiple times. …
_448 on Hacker News · 2022-05
In Ask HN: What things in the world are increasing at the fastest rate?I watched this video from Friedman just a couple of days ago and found it insightful on the topic of inflation: [VIDEO]
Mertax on Hacker News · 2022-06
In How Inflation Works
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.