Business Culture and Current Events

Time Well Spent – A Couple Hours with The Wall Street Journal

February 7, 2007 Reading Time: 6 minutes

A starting point for becoming knowledgeable about business and finance is simply to read The Wall Street Journal everyday. If you just do that, you’ll find your knowledge and understanding growing all the time and you’ll be way ahead of…

One of the Greats Has Fallen – R.I.P. Milton Friedman

November 16, 2006 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Milton Friedman, the great popularizer of free markets and “Monetarism”, emphasizing the importance of monetary policy in contrast to Keynes emphasis on fiscal policy, is dead at 94. Friedman was one of the important intellectual voices in the movement towards…