Well, the master of economic fascism moves on…. the US in less than 26 years of his theories is a debtor nation rather than a credit nation. In the first 8 years… banks, savings and loans, and HUD collpsed and economic interventionism rose to unprecedented highs (after all.. who trained the Mujahadeen .. read that Al Queda)and great secrecy became the way of government.
Then, if I understand right… his real test of playing with money caused a huge collapse of a fund he put together with others to play with world currencies.
Yes, he was a great influence… so was Rasputin. The very world created by President Bush, Rice, Cheney et al… can be found in his 1950’s books, which were not about economics… but about a nationalistic military-economist state.

Economist or Reactionary? I thank god I got a public education and a world view from the Lord Keynes view before the fragmentation, polarization, reliegiousization, and emergence of the mean people state.
WE are at breaking point for the great mass of humanity and the natural world. These can be laid at the feet of Mr. Friedman and his apprentices. Free market might be the best way to find solutions to problems, but a laissez-faire view is to ignore them when they are small and manageable… then to fix them when there is a buck to be made… at everyones expense.
It didn’t work in Adams Smith time and still will not work.
but, what would I know.. obviously i was raised wrong.

When one subsists on the succulent blood of calves, longevity it assured.  Good riddance.

That Milton got to be 94 makes me suspect that those who believe in the supply-side Jesus are maybe on to something.