#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

8503.11 - 8525.759 Jennifer Burns

And he also, at that same meeting, decides to institute price controls and He does a whole bunch of stuff. It's an emergency. He calls it the new economic plan, which is an unconscious echo of the Soviet new economic plan. So a problematic name, a problematic policy. And Friedman is livid at the price controls, but he's like, actually, it's great that you closed the gold window.