Milton Friedman Teaches Monetary Policy

In this cut from our Milton Friedman Speaks series, Dr. Friedman illustrates the basic relationship between the money supply and the consumer price index.
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  • @ARP1714
    @ARP17146 жыл бұрын

    Love to hear this man talk. Brilliant

  • @masada2828

    @masada2828

    5 жыл бұрын

    Abhiman Pt - not just the words but, the tone.

  • @davymach
    @davymach4 жыл бұрын

    He is one of the greatest economist ,whose wisdom reign even today

  • @alexocean9196

    @alexocean9196

    4 жыл бұрын

    The greatest

  • @IAmNotAHorse
    @IAmNotAHorse8 ай бұрын

    Wish you were here, Milton.

  • @riteshkumarsoni5796
    @riteshkumarsoni57965 жыл бұрын

    Milton Friedman was greatest economist. In how wonderful way he elaborate., I have never seen any such lecture.

  • @kyled1673
    @kyled16734 жыл бұрын

    Venezuela has the highest inflation rate as of 2019, at approximately 445,482.00%. Imagine the graph for that country! Yikes.

  • @sethabdul7824

    @sethabdul7824

    4 жыл бұрын

    Friedman : “We would have a chart for that, but there’s not enough room!”

  • @actualideas8078

    @actualideas8078

    4 жыл бұрын

    De Los Reyes no need to imagine. Just go to goldprice.org

  • @manaskumarbehera262
    @manaskumarbehera2624 жыл бұрын

    Libertarians: No you can't print money without creating any income it will only lead to inflation. Authoritarians: haha, money printer go brrr.

  • @averageblonde5496

    @averageblonde5496

    4 жыл бұрын

    Manas Kumar brrr.money

  • @nicholaschristodoulou3821
    @nicholaschristodoulou38213 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. I have no issue recognizing he is my superior in intellect.

  • @SmashBrosBrawl
    @SmashBrosBrawl4 жыл бұрын

    Helicopter money is the tool of choice for all politicians now!!!

  • @sudipshettynoojjis7851

    @sudipshettynoojjis7851

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi UR here as well 🙏🙏🙏

  • @Myndir
    @Myndir11 жыл бұрын

    Actually, Friedman didn't endorse inflation targeting and wasn't in favour of inflation even at a low level. If you read "The Optimum Quantity of Money", he argues that a very deflationary price trend (such that the opportunity cost of holding cash is equal to the interest rate on government bonds) would be optimal. He endorsed price stability (i.e. inflation when output falls and deflation/price stability when output rises) as the best politically possible compromise.

  • @steven21736

    @steven21736

    6 жыл бұрын

    Do you know how Friedman measured "quantity of money per unit of output"?

  • @Myndir

    @Myndir

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steven21736 The quantity of money divided by real output.

  • @Myndir

    @Myndir

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steven21736 Note that real output (i.e. GDP) is measured using the price level from six months earlier in his chart, so it's NOT predicting inflation using (in part) that inflation.

  • @MaghoxFr

    @MaghoxFr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can you recommend a couple of books in order to understand your comment? I want to learn economics but the terminology and concepts aren't easy to grasp

  • @R9dyhQ.RDPD99yF0gDmSZqC
    @R9dyhQ.RDPD99yF0gDmSZqC5 жыл бұрын

    in the ratio "quantity of money per unit of output", where does the "units of output" number come from?

  • @Myndir

    @Myndir

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nominal GDP divided by the price level.

  • @actualideas8078

    @actualideas8078

    4 жыл бұрын

    At 4:55. Just for the record

  • @ukps9632
    @ukps96322 ай бұрын

    What of cost push inflation eg fuel shortages?

  • @stevemcgee99
    @stevemcgee9911 жыл бұрын

    6:00 - the chart stops before the CPI inputs were changed to make it seem like prices were not rising as much as they were. An increase in the money supply by 2% per year should be meant to more or less match an increase in output, and actually would probably result in lowering prices. A boom era in the US (when MOST people became wealthier) was always during monetary deflation, like 'gay 90's'. Today, boom eras are defined as asset price increases, which benefit FEW people, hurt most.

  • @stephennickel5576
    @stephennickel55764 жыл бұрын

    I love it! The comments from the I am smarter than Mr Friedman, one day they might reflect on one self.

  • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't count on it. Those types of people seldom have the self awareness necessary to learn.

  • @dontaskwhatkindofmusic
    @dontaskwhatkindofmusic4 жыл бұрын

    I’m gonna look it up but I wonder how the overall production of money in Brazil compares to the US during these periods. Or production of money per capital rather than production of money per output

  • @michaelhuebner6843

    @michaelhuebner6843

    4 жыл бұрын

    The US Dollar is an exception due to it being the world reserve currency.

  • @talalkhan1597
    @talalkhan15974 жыл бұрын

    i studied 3 types of inflation in my Alevels economics, one was due to supply of money..But then what about the demand pull inflation and cost push inflation ?

  • @Adrian-dl9nb

    @Adrian-dl9nb

    4 жыл бұрын

    Costs don't determine prices, it's the other way around.

  • @TheSzymax

    @TheSzymax

    4 жыл бұрын

    Talal Khan The relationship between quantity of money and inflation has been very weakened in recent years. You must remember that this presentation is from late 1970s, where it seemed as if the quantity of money was all that mattered.

  • @kondasandeep7
    @kondasandeep76 жыл бұрын

    Even the printing press phenomenon failed to explain the consistent low inflation prevailing in the US ...It's really strange!!!

  • @TheHonestBroker

    @TheHonestBroker

    5 жыл бұрын

    One variable Friedman excluded was demand for money. The supply of money versus the demand for money determines velocity.

  • @Myndir

    @Myndir

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheHonestBroker Friedman has literally one of the most famous theories of the demand for money. It had some serious flaws (the effects of institutional changes in the financial system were more important than he thought and his preferred measures of money don't take into account the variable services provided by e.g. a time deposit vs. a checking account) but he DID have a theory.

  • @chrism3933

    @chrism3933

    4 жыл бұрын

    Inflation is low? It isn't low. We've been expanding the money supply since the 2008 crash at a speed unheard of before the downturn. Price increases, which are the result of inflation have been climbing steadily since then. Have you seen the prices in housing, energy, services, collectibles, stocks, education and healthcare? The prices for most of these are beyond reach for most average citizens and their standard of living is being reduced due to the increase in prices brought on by the inflationary policies of the Fed.

  • @12InchesUnBuffed

    @12InchesUnBuffed

    4 жыл бұрын

    how's inflation low in the US? asset inflation is there widening wealth gap in the US. Cost of living is going up. Debt levels are massively inflated. Low inflation? I'm confused sir.

  • @jejeje6034

    @jejeje6034

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just wait a a little bit. Bubbles can grow very big.

  • @Myndir
    @Myndir11 жыл бұрын

    Also, Bernanke's monetary theory fundamentally contradicts Friedman's (Bernanke is a creditist like the Austrian School rather than a monetarist, i.e. it's credit and bank assets that matter, not the quantity of money) so it would be very surprising if he agreed with Friedman's monetary policy proposals. (He doesn't agree with the Austrians either, but that's only because they're generally anarcho-capitalists and against the Fed entirely.)

  • @fps6612
    @fps66123 жыл бұрын

    A true genius

  • @hodoprime
    @hodoprime11 жыл бұрын

    2% inflation goal and fighting deflation with inflation were Friedman's ideas. Bernanke got his monetary policy from Friedman.

  • @VaShthestampede2

    @VaShthestampede2

    6 жыл бұрын

    Was it claimed in the video that this wasn't true?

  • @robertprawendowski2850
    @robertprawendowski28507 ай бұрын

  • @amauremedina2045
    @amauremedina20454 жыл бұрын

    He shrewdly games the economic system to his advantage. A dollar with high value will afford the very few goods and resources outstanding. So order to suppress the price of a good, which in turn dictates inflation itself & vice versa, you would limit the output and price of the good. He's more supply-side than demand-side economics.

  • @scottab140
    @scottab1408 жыл бұрын

  • @Kyle36147
    @Kyle361474 жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t inflation because by an unexpected lake of supply. Isn’t this the classic example of increasing price of the snow shovel in the winter.

  • @manuforever143

    @manuforever143

    4 жыл бұрын

    The increase in price of a snow shovel in winter is just a result of a changing supply and demand resulting from changes in season. The price of snow shovels will decrease when they are no longer in demand.

  • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, because supply and demand aren't objectively fixed. If demand of snow shovels in the winter increases, the prices will rise to match. This in turn will prompt more people to enter the market of importing in, and distributing snow shovels, increasing the supply, until equilibrium. This is how and why price fixing, and laws aimed at stopping price gouging only hurt in the long run.

  • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@manuforever143 Or when the supply increases to match. When the profits of something shoot up, more investors enter. This in turn makes more supply available, reducing the price to match.

  • @rdc323
    @rdc3233 жыл бұрын

    He forgot to mention that the fed does not represent the government or the people but is a private entity that has its own interests. That is the root of all economic problems. Therefore economies with similar monetary policies will have ups and downs because of greediness and corruption from big government or big corporations.

  • @jimmayorga1863

    @jimmayorga1863

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most bureaucrats are put in the fed by the government and its branches.

  • @cabalpaxiarch7239
    @cabalpaxiarch7239 Жыл бұрын

    How do we know it's not the opposite. That because of inflation, governments aren't forced to print more money to meet the demands of higher spending?

  • @roninviking
    @roninviking4 жыл бұрын

    Banks create money by fractional reserve banking...

  • @stopsign593

    @stopsign593

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, but is regulated by the government. So at the end of the day is the government who decides how much money the banks will create

  • @drowjack
    @drowjack4 жыл бұрын

    Do not start your printers

  • @jejeje6034
    @jejeje60344 жыл бұрын

    Qe infinity

  • @girurerumu
    @girurerumu4 жыл бұрын

    haha printer go brrr

  • @tynoArcher
    @tynoArcher4 жыл бұрын

    Although inflation is definitely a monetary phenomenon, however, the central bank being responsible for it may have been true at the time he said it, but right now it is mostly the responsibility of the commercial banks. Nowadays money is mostly created through loans, which means that who has the control over how much inflation we have are the commercial banks, not the CB.

  • @aayushpoudel9373

    @aayushpoudel9373

    4 жыл бұрын

    The central bank has the authority to alter the credit reserve ratio which has a direct impact on money supply.

  • @louiethegreater7019
    @louiethegreater70194 жыл бұрын

    Friedman taught globalization, under the guise of economics. I am amazed at the number of people mistake it for economics.

  • @donaldthesavage1288

    @donaldthesavage1288

    4 жыл бұрын

    louiethegreater He taught economics, and global trade leads to greater levels of prosperity and growth.

  • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh look, one of the ignorant twats that think they are smarter than Friedman because they hang out in a political echo chamber.

  • @veramann
    @veramann3 жыл бұрын

    As of 2020, the US has printed trillions of dollars, but the rate of inflation is still not very high.

  • @Covazs
    @Covazs4 жыл бұрын

    Só let me see if i get this rigth, wath he saying is, the fed make the printer go brrrrrrrrrrr , bailout nation nonono banckruptation stonks only go up?

  • @oscarpall6604
    @oscarpall66044 жыл бұрын

    No longer. Today, banks can produce money. They do it all the time everyday.

  • @samueljspacek5543

    @samueljspacek5543

    4 жыл бұрын

    The only money they get is from the FED

  • @mcsibs
    @mcsibs7 ай бұрын

    lets say you have 100 dollars in the system. There's also 1 unit of food in the system. The price of that unit of food is now 100 dollars. Lets say you have 100 dollars in a system and you have a billion units of food in the system. That food is now pretty cheap. If you're saying the quantity of money is the only part of this equation you're a complete hack

  • @KILIMANJARO9
    @KILIMANJARO96 жыл бұрын

    Yugoslavia was more precisely socialist country and Switzerland is a place for hidden deposited money, not only a capitalist country.

  • @fredpearson5204

    @fredpearson5204

    5 жыл бұрын

    Your point?

  • @midassandahl5076

    @midassandahl5076

    4 жыл бұрын

    You cant really hide money in switzerland anymore, because other countries got angry at them. Malta is the new switzerland in those terms though

  • @evolutiagames
    @evolutiagames4 жыл бұрын

    Buy Bitcoin!

  • @louiethegreater1
    @louiethegreater15 жыл бұрын

    Milton Friedman teaches Globalism.