Pickett Aasde you vote for by the people you elect. If society would be more responsible if the right to vote would happen only if somebody had to risk something with it (like going in the army or voluntary work or something ),then this question would be moot.
Yeah? What good would it do? It takes power and action to change things. When has asking your bully to quit hitting you ever worked? We know what we pay to enable, and we're never going to quit giving them our lunch money. Discuss away
@@X9523-z3v iN A WORLD FULL OF SHEEP YOU ARE EXECTLY CORRECT, WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE "POLITICIANS" WOULD BE IF THIS WERE SPARTA,......I KNOW WHY THEY ARE FEMANIZING EVERYTHING, THATS CLEAR, I WOULD WANT MY ENEMY AS WEAK AS POSSIBLE BEFORE I CONQUER THEM..........
Who is the Federal Reserve, is something we can answer, pre-World Wars, because we have a list of owners. Which, well, the major owner, was the Bank of NY. But, currently, you are not allowed to know whom the current owners are. But, clearly, one of the owners is the US Government, since the more money they print, the more money they give to the USA in "interest payments", which is actually a deceptive term, since it's really a tax on everyone whom held the currency before the payment. Their old currency is depreciated, with the printing.
@@normbograham3It's ALWAYS been the Rothschilds Central Bank Cartel System that has committed theft against the American people. Snuck in during Christmas recess in 1913, signed off by that traitor Wilson. Those blood sucking tics have had their hooks into the US since the country was founded.
The Great Depression saw a collapse in the money supply (due to Federal Reserve actions) -- which crippled the smaller banks (i.e., the competition to the larger banks who are members of the Federal Reserve). This wasn't an accident -- the Fed put its competition out-of-business.
He's ignoring the actual issues and the huge debt that always means currency needs to be debased. He's not talking about the huge money printing. 2008 needed the banks to fail and reset the system. It's a natural part of the human cycle.
@@arostwocents “It’s part of the natural human cycle”, your kidding right? The best way to rob a bank is to own one, 2008 proved that beyond a reasonable doubt.
To this day the dept of treasury and all other government offices have never been audited. The government will not fix government and needs to be reduced in size by 2/3rds.
@Steve Bilkos. lol it’s amazing to think we allow government to ‘educate’ our children - we willingly take our children in to them and pay taxes to allow this indoctrination! We must be raving mad...
The government system will hide the truth at all cost, so everything that is taught in any level of education will never use the truth except what they want you to know.
Adam Smith who wrote the Wealth of Nations in the 18th Century said if people who own real estate like Trump and people who work for wages like his supporters are in charge of a country it does well because their fortunes are tied to the country they live in but if international bankers run a nation then it fails because liquidating the assets of a country is how they make money. It all depends on how you want to live.
That is so true. For almost 30 years now we have been running the economy for the benefit of Wall Street and financiers instead of building real wealth buy building real things. A paper economy eventually gets reduced to the value of that paper and that is where we are headed.
@@darylfoster7944 Are you talking in terms of producing things or in inflated dollar values? We don't build ships, we don't have the steel industry we used to have, etc. US Steel has now gone the way of Bethlehem Steel and that is not a good thing. That steel industry is what allowed us to win the 2nd World War and it is the lack of that industry that is making our ship building problems bigger than just bureaucratic stupidity and lord knows that is bad enough.
The fed is supposed to keep inflation and monetary policy stable, what they actually did however was create huge quantities of money and cheap credit in the 20's, driving rapid expansion and a bubble, and then adopted a harsh tight monetary policy in the 30's, creating a crash. In simple terms, the fed continually distorted the market through expansionist and then austere monetary policy, when what they are supposed to do is keep everything fairly stable.
Isn't history interesting, by that all who say it is boring and not important are the same individuals who seem to have much to say about the 1% the 99% the crooked banks and so on who attempt to sound logical really haven't a clue because, as you pointed out and the contents of the video reveal, it is happening all over again. This time, however there have been warnings but are people laughing or listening.
So you agree that Smoot - Hawley had nothing to do with the great depression. I agree with you it was the FEDS monetary policy ( refusal to renew the money supply ) was the cause.
It's the boom/bust cycle. A boom to make the sheeple produce, create, establish - then a bust to steal it from them at pennies on the dollar. Rinse - repeat. That's how 50% of all real assets are owned by the elite today. Or an important part of the reason.
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I've never seen someone explain such significant and complex topics in such a simple manner. Four or five years ago, at the start of high school, I started getting recommended Friedman clips from TH-cam, and that piqued my interest in economics. Now I'm an economics major at university all thanks to this.
I hope you don't fall for the Keynesian crap in the Samuelson textbook. I hope your professors don't even use that book. I quit economics because of Samuelson's nonsense. It was okay at the beginning with supply and demand and such, but quickly devolved into stuff that just doesn't work in the real world.
brassmonkeyjew Bernake is regarded as an expert on the great depression but seems to be one who never read a book on the subject. He made all the same mistakes that turned a stock market crash into an even bigger mess. His successor Janet Yellin is hopelessly out of her depth. The US currency will not survive the mistakes that have been made
We have them, but people don't want to believe them. As he pointed out, if the government can take the value of your dollar instead of the number of your dollars, then they'll do it.... all while bragging about how they're not raising taxes. It's hard to blame an ELECTED politician for this; because if they're not elected, they aren't effective, and if they are honest about the transfer of wealth, they wouldn't be elected.
The more I learn about the economic history of the United States, the more I am CONVINCED that every major economic downturn has been caused by excessive government interference in the market place.
The Great Depression made it easier to push people into war, higher taxation, and the eventual creep toward Feudalism 2.0 we're living through today, under the false descriptors of Democracy and progress.
Protectionism is justified. Free markets always evolve into internationalists wet dreams. Keep internationalist investors out of owning property or real estate and you won’t have maligned interests parasitically eating away at your soul.
_"The Congress has been very unwilling to raise taxes, as a result it has imposed inflation as a tax, that's one tax you don't have to vote for"_ Very wise words, Milton.
@speedingAtI94; "Have to" ? Why don't we remember and require our judges and every elected official to use and enforce the US Constitution which says in Article 1 Section 10: No State Shall... Make Any Thing but Silver and gold as tender in payment of debts ? Have we forgotten our birthright is freedom or have we gone soft in allowing the powers that shouldn't be to inflict upon us all a debt-based monetary system by which the working class is oppressed and all of us are enslaved?
@@RoylamxThat is a limitation imposed on the members of the Union that prevents them from printing money. Member states are restricted to just coins of silver and gold and no more. Article 8 grants very broad power to Congress to regulate the value of "coined money", and a lot more: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;..."
Right now, we don't need more taxes, we need less spending. Gouging the rich, an obsession of the left, will not lead to balanced budgets. It is a red herring.
I never thought of it that way. That inflation, when used as an intentional devise (not the by-product of poor policy), is the governments way of taxing you without taxing you.
It is also the reason why America has large wealth inequality, the poor get poorer and the corporations and banks connected to the government get richer.
+MrJarth However to be fair, our "poor" are wealthier than many many countries "rich" people. Our poor people are "relatively" poor to our rich, but our poor are "relatively" rich to the world population.
+Brett Means: Lets address your points one by one. *Government spends the same dollar we do. It makes no sense for them to lessen the value of the taxes they collect just so they can print more money. It's pointless.* No it makes plenty of sense. If you own 10,000 dollars 50 years ago, that was a lot of money. If you owe it today, it is significantly less. This is due to inflation. For them to devalue the dollar devalues debt. That is why mortgaging a home is fruitful, the debt stays the same while inflation increased the cost of the home. Not only does it help the government (the largest debt holder) to devalue it's debt, it also helps them with spending. Inflation happens AFTER money is in circulation, not BEFORE. The government gets to spend the money before inflation happens--this creates the inflation and devalues their debt. *you don't live under a gold standard.* What specifically don't I understand? *The Fed's response to the 2008 crisis should show you that banks can create literally hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity without causing massive inflation. So long as the liquidity stays within the banks, which it did,* Right--which answers your first issue about why the government would devalue the dollar. The inflation occurs when the money is circulated, not when it is made. *What makes you think deflation is a good thing?* It is good for those that have dollars and bad for those that have debt. If you have money, it becomes more valuable. *The economy, and everything you enjoy in it, is built on inflation* Mostly--though technology would be the exception. What about it? *Remember, that when prices deflate, wages do also.* When the wage goes down, it is because the value of the dollar went up. Remember the cost of goods also goes down. Just like when there is a minimum wage increase, prices go up. If you took a zero off of everything, from wages to prices--no one lost a cent. Just like if you added a zero to everything. The only losers and winners are the people who have dollars in debt or savings. *You must either be very young or very well provided for to behave as if wage reduction and massive layoffs across the entire economy is a 'good and natural thing'.* I would suggest not assuming much about someone's character or background off of a youtube comment. If you think inflation does not cause the same problems--you are grossly misinformed. Inflation causes the same problem. Again, the issue is devaluing debt which devalues savings--or valuing savings which values debt. It does not take a psychoanalyst to understand why the government chooses to devalue debt.
@@bryancarr100they are pretty aggressively spreading propaganda that inflation is down and wages are up. They just twisted the data though and only went back 2 years to claim this. Any idiot with an ounce of common sense knows this is bullshit
We all like to say things like "I wish Milton or Sowell (et al) was president"... however, we can all educate ourselves a little and try to emulate them a bit in life :)
Friedman’s (Monetarism) take on the Great Depression is flawed.. I recommend u look into the Austrians approach to the Great Depression. The Austrians of the time(Mises) were the only people who predicted the depression and it’s causes correctly. I think there is some truth to Friedman’s assessment but his remedies are naive/optimistic. I recommend u read Murray Rothbards book on the Great Depression. It explains how artificial interest rates set by the fed created the Great Depression bubble.
@@joemorales3764 Is there a place where you can read those books for free? I have a lot of respect for Friedman but can you please explain how his explanation was flawed?
News Man you can read books for free on Zlibrary Friedman believed the depression was caused by monetary policy which is partly true. However the Austrians would argue differently. It wasn’t particularly monetary policy but rather artificial interest rates that lead to the bubble. The Austrians of the time, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt and some others were the only people to predict the depression because artificial interest rates lead to malinvestment and when the investments fall short u are left with a economic downturn. That’s how peter schiff in 2006 properly predicted the 2008 depression and in 2017 predicted 2020. Now Friedman’s assessment is correct that had we bailed out the first bank that failed, we might not have seen near as much damage BUT monetary policy did not play as big of a factor as artificial interest rates. Most Austrians unlike Milton Friedman do not believe in a central bank(The Fed). Friedman eventually years before death changed his mind on this and moved away from monetarism towards Free market banking. I love Milton Friedman but I recommend anyone who reads this to go check out Austrian economics. They are the best at debunking communism, central banking, understanding inflation and deflation, etc.
@@joemorales3764 Damn, I will look into those Austrian books of economics in the future, thanks for the link. Btw, what are artificial interest rates? Are those the ones the fed gives? Or the ones that end up not being repayed? Please explain, I need to know. Would greatly appreciate it.
News Man when I say artificial interest rates I’m referring to the ones set by the Fed. The reason I have the modifier “artificial” in front of it is to show that when the Fed sets interest rates those rates have no real value. for example in a free market banking system Banks woulf Lower interest rates when bank savings rise and raise interest rates when savings lower. The Fed does not look at savings to determine interest rates. They look at the economy which is an arbitrary measure. And so it’s artificial not natural.
It's clear very few had put in the amount of time deeply studying the subject of economics as did Milton. But the one thing that separates him from other economists is the way in which he communicates his message. He's after facts, truth, unlike most that are expressing their need to be heard and feed their enormous egos. His messages are very receptive even by his skeptics because he has a great deal of humility and care for policies that will give the individual the best possibility to make it. Love that dude.
Well there was one country that resisted the globalist's plot and experienced a period of never seen before prosperity, but they were eventually destroyed and demonized so that even to this day they are portrayed by MSM as the most horrible people that ever lived
@@nekroneschwartz2013 To be fair, Nazi Germany was just printing fiat currency at the time, it couldn't have gone on forever. There's also the nature of their war-economy, a big part of their economic growth came from supplying the military, which again was unsustainable in the long-run.
Nekrone Schwartz The foresight may have been there but the same country must also take responsibility for allowing a party with a doctrine as evil and oppressive as modern day globalists to take power. Leaving MSM spins out of the picture, what happened IS documented history. As Friedman says here, everyone taking their part of the responsibility is the only way out.
Although it has been several years since this video was posted, it still is a vibrant, in depth common debate that is still valid as it appears. The ego does get in the way of progress and objectivity, Milton proves this over and over in all of his debates and symposiums on economics. Math does not lie but humans do.
Dude they got it right. It works exactly how it was designed. This guy is a bit of a misinformationist. There was no mistake.... THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE, THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!
The best efforts of the Federal Reserve? Cough, cough bullshit. THE BOOMS & BUSTS ARE ON PURPOSE & they always have been. It is a way to consolidate power. The small banks that fail are absorbed by those banks "too big to fail" & thus the process repeats.
Mike McGuire well they were pretty good during the Keynesian time period between 1936-1978, also known as the Golden Age of Capitalism. As we had the highest growth over 3-4 decades all over the west in productivity growth, investment growth and wealth growth (among all citizens) and yeah we also had 0 new Deficits over the Years as we were Paying back the Government investments in the 40’s. Oh wait a minute does it make a difference on wich economic system the FED operates?s/
if I am understanding your post correctly. You are saying that that the Government should have been regulating the actions of Wall Street, and should have forced the Fed to renew the money supply in order to offset the run on the banks. The believe the government should regulated speculators who drove stocks and then sold, leaving others holding the hot potato. Is that correct.
I had to key Cathy Newman into my browser in order know who she was. No; I have never heard of her. Actually that is what you are saying. The depression was caused from buying stock on the margin, and was sustained by the FED not renewing the money supply, thus causing the run on the banks. Thus causing the closing of the banks. The market has been kept under control by REGULATION, or at least until Glass - Steagall was repealed.
Talk about myths, there's no such thing as a "self-regulating free market" and never will be one. If you don't agree provide one documented example of a self regulating free market in all of recorded history.
BTW Dennis, if you assert something as fact then you should be prepared to prove your claims. Conservatives keep talking all this trash about the magic of "self regulating free markets" but they have never once in all of recorded history provided one example of a self regulating free market. Why is that? Because they never have existed and never will except in the imaginations of right wing ideologues. When you can provide empirical proof of what you claim is a free market get back to me and then maybe I'll change my mind. But if you can't then maybe you should rethink what you think you know.
@@jamessullivan9992 it was the federal government which needed to be bailed out, not the country. There is more than a semantic distinction between the two..
1:55 The great depression was produced by a failure of government, by a failure of monetary policy, said Friedman 2:02 It was produced by a failure of the Federal Reserve System to act in accordance with the intentions of those who established it. 2:45 The Federal Reserve ... would never admit that it produced the Great Depression (2:45) 2b. The hardest thing in the world for anybody is to admit that he made a mistake. (3:05) 3. The federal reserve was established in order to prevent bank panics and to keep banks from closing (4:19) 1933 it closed its own doors after one third of the nation's banks had closed. () [You can see this dramatized in "It's A Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart
"Inflation is a tax you don't vote for but you have to pay." The type of government you vote in determines what the inflation rate will be. If this wasn't true, you could vote in a very high spending government and not worry about the consequences. To put it another way: tell that to the Venezuelans!
@@nodatron6954 No, I'm not trying to suggest anything. I'm just saying that the statement I quoted means very little by itself. I have no idea whether having a Democrat or Republican government is better for the US and have no opinion on that.
Gee, it's almost like the FED knew it was causing the depression and wanted it to keep going. I wonder what was the end result of that depression for the fed... could it be..... More power?!?!
@@matthewdelaney3466 I have no idea what you mean. If you're calling me a pawn, I can tell you I'm not, and it's probably you who's the pawn for being unable to evaluate what's being said for yourself.
Prior to 2006, Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman told Americans to take advantage of short term loans to buy houses. As home prices skyrocketed into a bubble, the fed held mortgage interest rates low causing a catastrophic bubble that exploded in 2007.
The bubble has reinflated. But Powell has prevented it from popping by buying mortgages. Currently Powell (Fed) is sitting on $2.5 Trillion of mortgages. Powell / Fed has no income, so he buys them by printing money. Hence inflation. I am yet to meet an American who knows that the Fed has a balance sheet, and the Fed clearly states how much money they have spent on mortgages. (Google up H41 Federal Reserve Current Release).
Great recession was the grandchild of the great depression. Caused by the same bureaucratic mentality that refuses to learn it's own history of ineptitude.
@@ThinkerHaistTV No. It was caused by ineptitude by government policy. Other than home values skyrocketing due to fraudulent lending practices, inflation as a whole was moderate
Folks just ask yourself this one question, WHAT does the Fed govt do that actually works ? Social Security ? Welfare ? IRS ? What has the FED done that has helped ...
Spentastic yet dems and republicans are crying out for a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan to fix the current infrastructure. Also a random fact.. the average cost for a public restroom made by the government is around 200 thousand dollars PER SQUARE FOOT... yea the government always does it better.
I think he makes it clear it was the fault of the federal reserve system, and maybe I missed it, but what policies and actions did the federal reserve system put into place that caused the great depression? Where can I go to get more details about that?
What he learned and was able to explain is timeless because there are patterns in life, things that never change, even when they seem like they change. Understanding things on a large scale means understanding on a small scale first, you can always compare something big to something small, that's how you learn.
I remember Milton Friedman mentioning this in a prior interview, I also heard Alan Greenspan saying so too during an interview. What Mr Friedman forgets to mention is that the Fed is a private bank not a government institution, its kind of part of the government (just because the president appoints the chairman, that's about it) and is as Federal as Federal Express. The reason why they contracted the money supply, according to many experts, was to wipe out all the small regional banks which were doing fairly well, so it wasn't really by inability or negligence, but by design.
It is a government institution. Who pays the people who work at the federal reserve? Plus the chair is appointed by the head of government so it is a government institution
Why would the Fed want to wipe out small regional banks? The Fed is unique - it has government-granted powers. It doesn't compete with the small banks - they are the Fed's customers.
No expert on Friedman, but what I got out of this short clip is that the free market got into trouble (run on banks) and the only one who could save it was the Fed if they had used the right cure, but they chose the wrong one and made the problem worse. Why was there a run on the banks in the first place and were there any other ways, except the fed, to fix the problem?. Maybe he talks about these issues elsewhere, because those are pretty important things to leave out.
Milton Friedman was the greatest economist since Hayek. Listening to him relaxes me while I'm listening. Then as I think about it, it infuriates me, because no matter how far back his lectures, they apply equally today, and we are dealing with a wash, rinse, repeat cycle. He taught me everything I need to know about insurance in a brief, one page essay. Only Tom Sowell could write as.concisely and cogently. Teacner, and student. Tom Sowell picked up Milt's mantle. God.Bless Both 'Em!
It may be "privately owned" but it's power stems from the state itself. It's hardly a private institution. Having elected officials or not is irrelevant to the question.
He didn’t say WHY the Fed made the mistake leading to the Great Depression. I suspect that back then the members of the Fed thought they were doing the right thing. He doesn’t say what the Fed should have done instead and why they should have done it. There’s a lot more to learn here that’s not being said.
Why is the assumption always that people don't know what they are doing, or they are not making throughout choices? Isn't it just as likely that they knew what they were doing and they did it on purpose?
They are lumped together as "free" market advocates but they differ substantially regarding their policy prescriptions in terms of the Fed / money supply. Uncle Milty advocated a simple monetary policy of constant, limited growth of the money supply orchestrated by the Fed and the fractional reserves banking system whereas the Austrians consider the Fed and fractional reserves banking as an unmitigated evil that is immoral in nature and uncontrollable in practice and thus need to be abolished asap.
Austrians are more heterodox, disdaining data-centric economics in favor of the philosophical. Friedman was a bit more mainstream, a Monetarist. Both are small-government types, though Austrians seem to attract more anarcho-capitalists. For the Great Depression, the Austrian and Monetarist schools align at first, blaming the Fed for poor monetary policy. But Austrians like Rothbard go further and suggest that it was government intervention through legislation (tariffs, taxes) that stagnated the recovery.
@@DukeRevolution Yes, Austrians [mises.org et. al] are in favor of the philosophical. It is excessive to the point, where it becomes removed from the reality we live in. Even directional libertarianism is frowned upon in their circles.
His point about it's hard to admit you've made a mistake...it's even harder for politicians. They don't want their mistake to keep them from getting reelected, and they don't want their mistake to hurt their party either. So they tend to just be silent about it.
Yet when private business fails, they clammer to the government for bailout money. Not to mention the enormous quantity of tax dollars going to private defense contractors. Private business also relies heavily on government funded research and development of technology.
The Left (government, the media and too many "respected" retired politicians) would shut Dr. Friedman up, if he were alive. Fortunately, wisdom lives on!
Maybe because the vast majority of prominent economist at our finest schools think Friedman is wrong? Certainly the Fed played a role, but Friedman's thesis is too simplistic to explain the genesis of the Great Depression.
@@jeffneptune2922 the data provided from the fed themselves proves him correct. He received his noble prize in economics for his research on this exact subject. It’s why he’s famous because most economist actually do agree with him on the depression they just don’t believe his prescriptions about what we should do today are correct.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 If an FDR welfare state with "social safety nets" was in place in the early 1930s when economy began to feel the effects from a series of market crashes, the Great Depression never would have happened. Laissez faire capitalism, with it's near zero government regulation of corporations , banking and the market led to near complete economic collapse and a very dirty environment. In fact, the Fed was created because this free market utopia was too unstable leading to serious previous economic downturns like the "Long Depression " of the late 19th century.
@@jeffneptune2922 that’s just absolutely false. Even the most die hard welfare state supporter would not contend that. The main issue was the supply of money. Deflation was -20 something percent. How exactly are you supposed to hire anyone in those conditions? You basically can’t. It’s not until the fractional reserve system was implemented that the economy began to recover. Many would argue that the policies taken afterwards especially things like increased taxation (further limiting money supply), the work programs taking workers from private enterprise (private enterprises invest) and especially the numerous constitutional infringements enacted by FDR infact lengthened the Great Depression. Now you can argue a welfare state may have saved the country from issues of starvation and avoid things like Hoovertowns. They would not have saved the economy though and nothing really supports that idea.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 The wild speculation and buying stocks on margin along with other shenanigans on Wall Street thanks to almost no government regulation in the 1920s ignited the house of cards and the response to the developing crisis or lack of, e.g. Smoot Hawley Tariff , along with no direct help for at risk people because conservative politicians like Hoover and Coolidge didn't believe in that , made the situation far worse. Yes, the Fed played an important role too but it is not a unitary explanation for the genesis of the Great Depression. As for FDR, when he came into office in 1933, the country was in dire straights. He had to be experimental, some of his policies helped , others hurt and still others had no effect on the economy. The point is, there were no government protections for people in 1930. If you lost your job, no money for you; bank went under, you lost everything; evicted from your home , good luck finding shelter and food on the street ect. The lack of any effectual government buffer is the primary reason the country continued the downward spiral into the Great Depression. In fact, the weakening and finally removal of the FDR era protection, "Glass-Steagall Act" , ironically by Clinton played an important role in the 2008 financial crisis. Trump strongly echoed FDR/LBJ and Keynes in 2020 when he supported and signed the massive government "stimulus" to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic. It greatly expanded and extended "unemployment insurance", sent checks to nearly everyone under 100K, even those working and not effected by the pandemic, maxed out snap benefits and greatly increased food banks, froze evictions along with student loans ect. Even conservative "supply side" hypocrites like Mnuchin , Kudlow and Moore said these liberal government actions were necessary to prevent modern day "Hoovervilles" from popping up across the country.
@2iorj32r -- free market economies always have ups and downs and good and bad times. You can't always produce EXACTLY what the population will consume. Friedman is just making a solid point in saying that the Fed can ease or compound the problem based on it's actions or inactions. They have a role, a key role at times, but they often cause more problems than they fix.
A very powerful and accurate explanation. Dr. Friedman has just exposed those that hold the true purse strings in this country, the same ones to blame for it's economic ills. Great video.
Myth: • that the Great Depression was caused by the failure of private business, and • that the government had to step in Reality: It was produced by a failure of government
@@thorwilkinson2565 this is true the FED is supposed to be purely nonpartisan yet Trump constantly pushes the FED for even lower interest rates and they listen.
@Jason S. Trump has urged the FED to go to negative interest rates many times I thought that's what you were implying when you said you agree with Trump.
It is an agency they use to do business.. By them allowing or agreeing for them to Regulate U.S.money supply and charge interest,the ARE A GOVERNMENT AGENT BY DEFAULT. splitting hairs saying it a private back sounds naive..at ANY TIME The U.S government can STOP the use of The Fed.Reserve...an by Constitutional authority, Print and coin U.S money as what Founding Father intended.. And there would be not a single thing fed.reserve could do but find other jobs...because its a vehicle Not owner of the vehicle..get it,got it yw.
You should probably read The Progressive Era by Murray Rothbard. There's a free pdf on the Mises Institute and you'll find what your looking for on page 463. Plus there's The Creature From Jekyll Island that discusses the formation of the Federal Reserve. I highly recommend that you check them out.
I'm studying financial economics myself and while I agree with him, this is a big oof to the Fed. If not for the human element, I think the Fed would be good for the economy. It's a conflict of interests I'm worried about and who actually runs the Fed, and what their interests actually are.
even without a human factor, a centralized apparatus is incapable of competing with a decentralized system where billions of agents make simultaneous decisions where some fail and others succeed
@@usuario6196 That's right. Expertise is diffuse amongst individuals. Also, how would you ever get rid of the human element. Even AI is made by humans, and I wouldn't trust the people who would teach it how to think with the money supply.
Banks have done more injury to religion, tranquility, property, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or will do good. John Adams Without big banks, socialism would be impossible. Vladimir Lenin
Yeah just a total coincidence that the industrial era railroad barons got greedy and that’s when the entire wealth disparity happened. You’re not a bootlicker at all, just keep telling yourself that
He says that the FED could have PREVENTED the crisis. He says the free market was NOT to blame. But he does not explain WHY the crisis happened in the first place. He was one one those people who believe that economic downturns....just happen....animal spirits?
BarrySlisk That is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Plenty of Austrians and monetarists were calling the bubble. Hell, plenty of people got rich off shorting cdo's. Perhaps you are referring to the finance kiddies that are perma bulls that were witnessed on msnbc and CNN ect... With that said, you never know a bubble till it pops.
SAIDsoe "With that said, you never know a bubble till it pops." Sort of contradicts what you just wrote :) Btw. There are very few austrians. And austrians certainly do not think that bubbles (except very small ones) are natural.
BarrySlisk It does not contradict anything. Austrians still believe in fluctuations and bubbles dude. They just approach the business cycle in a different manner. Namely, that interest rates are a price that indicates to business, periods of expansion and contraction. They still acknowledge that Mal investment can occur. It's just less volatile. The Austrian school is small, but to say almost no one is an austrian... obsurd.
Inflation is a tax you don't vote for but you have to pay. Brilliant.
Depends on the type of inflation.
Pickett Aasde depends on your debt
Pickett Aasde you vote for by the people you elect. If society would be more responsible if the right to vote would happen only if somebody had to risk something with it (like going in the army or voluntary work or something ),then this question would be moot.
William H. Harrison we vote for taxes all the time. Increase taxes to pay for new schools, bridges, stadiums, etc.
Brilliantly evil.
Anyone watching in 2024…we need more of these discussions today
You got that right.
Here
no we dont idiot.,....we need action.
Yeah? What good would it do? It takes power and action to change things. When has asking your bully to quit hitting you ever worked? We know what we pay to enable, and we're never going to quit giving them our lunch money. Discuss away
@@X9523-z3v iN A WORLD FULL OF SHEEP YOU ARE EXECTLY CORRECT, WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE "POLITICIANS" WOULD BE IF THIS WERE SPARTA,......I KNOW WHY THEY ARE FEMANIZING EVERYTHING, THATS CLEAR, I WOULD WANT MY ENEMY AS WEAK AS POSSIBLE BEFORE I CONQUER THEM..........
Who is the federal reserve?
Big banks.
Who benefits from recessions?
Big banks.
The fed never fails to do what is right for themselves.
Who is the Federal Reserve, is something we can answer, pre-World Wars, because we have a list of owners. Which, well, the major owner, was the Bank of NY. But, currently, you are not allowed to know whom the current owners are. But, clearly, one of the owners is the US Government, since the more money they print, the more money they give to the USA in "interest payments", which is actually a deceptive term, since it's really a tax on everyone whom held the currency before the payment. Their old currency is depreciated, with the printing.
Who owns the big banks?((()))
@@normbograham3It's ALWAYS been the Rothschilds Central Bank Cartel System that has committed theft against the American people. Snuck in during Christmas recess in 1913, signed off by that traitor Wilson. Those blood sucking tics have had their hooks into the US since the country was founded.
Engineered
The Great Depression saw a collapse in the money supply (due to Federal Reserve actions) -- which crippled the smaller banks (i.e., the competition to the larger banks who are members of the Federal Reserve). This wasn't an accident -- the Fed put its competition out-of-business.
Here in Argentina there's not a single politician who doesn't blame business for our inflation problem
government as it slides inevitably towards corruption becomes a conman club.
You should probably just kill them. Stringing up politicians always solves social issues.
duane navarre.. conman club armed with clubs
Thank god you have Javier Milei
The biggest economic problem Argentina has is that it still thinks of itself as the Argentina of 100 years ago.
Inflation is the cruelest tax of all
Inflation is officially-sanctioned theft. It compounds, relentlessly . . .
And interest aka usury, perpetrated by the inflationists, bank interest is literally money nobody can create.
He's ignoring the actual issues and the huge debt that always means currency needs to be debased. He's not talking about the huge money printing. 2008 needed the banks to fail and reset the system. It's a natural part of the human cycle.
@@robyn7165the Germans are branded as uniquely evil as they uniquely attempted to end usury
@@arostwocents “It’s part of the natural human cycle”, your kidding right? The best way to rob a bank is to own one, 2008 proved that beyond a reasonable doubt.
Milton Friedman is a once in a generation thinker.
Luckily, I'd say
There's also Thomas Sowell.
Meh. Same old shit.
a lot of folks think this way.. Milton had a stage
No demons like him are born everyday
To this day the dept of treasury and all other government offices have never been audited. The government will not fix government and needs to be reduced in size by 2/3rds.
9/10th
President Trump promises to do that after 2025 . . .
He will do the same thing he did his first 4 years in office aboit it. Nothing!@grandaddyoe1434
Agreed. If not 90%.
@@bjohnson1489 Which parts will you guys eliminate?
This isn't what I learned in Government school. lol
that is because our system of education in America has been purchased by grants from tax exempt foundations like The Ford Foundation and others.
@Steve Bilkos. lol it’s amazing to think we allow government to ‘educate’ our children - we willingly take our children in to them and pay taxes to allow this indoctrination! We must be raving mad...
Lol imagine that.
The government system will hide the truth at all cost, so everything that is taught in any level of education will never use the truth except what they want you to know.
Did you take civics or social studies.
Adam Smith who wrote the Wealth of Nations in the 18th Century said if people who own real estate like Trump and people who work for wages like his supporters are in charge of a country it does well because their fortunes are tied to the country they live in but if international bankers run a nation then it fails because liquidating the assets of a country is how they make money. It all depends on how you want to live.
That is so true. For almost 30 years now we have been running the economy for the benefit of Wall Street and financiers instead of building real wealth buy building real things. A paper economy eventually gets reduced to the value of that paper and that is where we are headed.
@@bretrudeseal4314 u.s. manufacturing output is higher than it's ever been. The notion that we don't make things is simply incorrect.
@@darylfoster7944 Are you talking in terms of producing things or in inflated dollar values? We don't build ships, we don't have the steel industry we used to have, etc. US Steel has now gone the way of Bethlehem Steel and that is not a good thing. That steel industry is what allowed us to win the 2nd World War and it is the lack of that industry that is making our ship building problems bigger than just bureaucratic stupidity and lord knows that is bad enough.
@@bretrudeseal4314 You are wrong about WWII.
Trump doesn't own real estate. He leverages voraciously and so must keep borrowing. His empire is a Ponzi scheme. I detest dumb.
The fed is supposed to keep inflation and monetary policy stable, what they actually did however was create huge quantities of money and cheap credit in the 20's, driving rapid expansion and a bubble, and then adopted a harsh tight monetary policy in the 30's, creating a crash. In simple terms, the fed continually distorted the market through expansionist and then austere monetary policy, when what they are supposed to do is keep everything fairly stable.
Isn't history interesting, by that all who say it is boring and not important are the same individuals who seem to have much to say about the 1% the 99% the crooked banks and so on who attempt to sound logical really haven't a clue because, as you pointed out and the contents of the video reveal, it is happening all over again. This time, however there have been warnings but are people laughing or listening.
both of you, shhh the sheeple aren't supposed to know.
So you agree that Smoot - Hawley had nothing to do with the great depression. I agree with you it was the FEDS monetary policy ( refusal to renew the money supply ) was the cause.
It's the boom/bust cycle. A boom to make the sheeple produce, create, establish - then a bust to steal it from them at pennies on the dollar. Rinse - repeat. That's how 50% of all real assets are owned by the elite today. Or an important part of the reason.
Jens K A well thought out statement Jens, I agree -- and admire the simplicity of your statement.
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I've never seen someone explain such significant and complex topics in such a simple manner. Four or five years ago, at the start of high school, I started getting recommended Friedman clips from TH-cam, and that piqued my interest in economics. Now I'm an economics major at university all thanks to this.
I recommend reading his short book titled “Capitalism and Freedom,” if you haven’t already done so.
You are light years ahead of your peers.
Friedman-Pinochet economics?
I hope you don't fall for the Keynesian crap in the Samuelson textbook. I hope your professors don't even use that book. I quit economics because of Samuelson's nonsense. It was okay at the beginning with supply and demand and such, but quickly devolved into stuff that just doesn't work in the real world.
@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Friedman'sMarketFairy-is-the-crazy-shit.
We desperately need economists of his intellectual heft today.
Yeah, makes me sad. At least Thomas Sowell is still alive.
brassmonkeyjew
Bernake is regarded as an expert on the great depression but seems to be one who never read a book on the subject. He made all the same mistakes that turned a stock market crash into an even bigger mess. His successor Janet Yellin is hopelessly out of her depth.
The US currency will not survive the mistakes that have been made
JNClaffey today, tomorrow. .. forever!
Strongly Disagree
Vote Confidence: 10
Stupid
We have them, but people don't want to believe them. As he pointed out, if the government can take the value of your dollar instead of the number of your dollars, then they'll do it.... all while bragging about how they're not raising taxes. It's hard to blame an ELECTED politician for this; because if they're not elected, they aren't effective, and if they are honest about the transfer of wealth, they wouldn't be elected.
The more I learn about the economic history of the United States, the more I am CONVINCED that every major economic downturn has been caused by excessive government interference in the market place.
Always government fault!
It’s not a free market economy when you have corporate welfare and bailouts!
The Great Depression made it easier to push people into war, higher taxation, and the eventual creep toward Feudalism 2.0 we're living through today, under the false descriptors of Democracy and progress.
Right leaning think tanks have been working hard at convincing you, looks like it's working then 😢
Protectionism is justified. Free markets always evolve into internationalists wet dreams. Keep internationalist investors out of owning property or real estate and you won’t have maligned interests parasitically eating away at your soul.
That's the point of the federal reserve existence
_"The Congress has been very unwilling to raise taxes, as a result it has imposed inflation as a tax, that's one tax you don't have to vote for"_
Very wise words, Milton.
but you have to pay
@speedingAtI94; "Have to" ? Why don't we remember and require our judges and every elected official to use and enforce the US Constitution which says in Article 1 Section 10: No State Shall... Make Any Thing but Silver and gold as tender in payment of debts ?
Have we forgotten our birthright is freedom or have we gone soft in allowing the powers that shouldn't be to inflict upon us all a debt-based monetary system by which the working class is oppressed and all of us are enslaved?
@@RoylamxThat is a limitation imposed on the members of the Union that prevents them from printing money.
Member states are restricted to just coins of silver and gold and no more.
Article 8 grants very broad power to Congress to regulate the value of "coined money", and a lot more:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;..."
Right now, we don't need more taxes, we need less spending. Gouging the rich, an obsession of the left, will not lead to balanced budgets. It is a red herring.
I never thought of it that way. That inflation, when used as an intentional devise (not the by-product of poor policy), is the governments way of taxing you without taxing you.
It is also the reason why America has large wealth inequality, the poor get poorer and the corporations and banks connected to the government get richer.
+MrJarth However to be fair, our "poor" are wealthier than many many countries "rich" people. Our poor people are "relatively" poor to our rich, but our poor are "relatively" rich to the world population.
Very true. You cannot tax deflation (deflation being a good and natural thing). Inflation also devalues government debt--making it easier to service.
+Brett Means:
Lets address your points one by one.
*Government spends the same dollar we do. It makes no sense for them to lessen the value of the taxes they collect just so they can print more money. It's pointless.*
No it makes plenty of sense. If you own 10,000 dollars 50 years ago, that was a lot of money. If you owe it today, it is significantly less. This is due to inflation. For them to devalue the dollar devalues debt. That is why mortgaging a home is fruitful, the debt stays the same while inflation increased the cost of the home. Not only does it help the government (the largest debt holder) to devalue it's debt, it also helps them with spending. Inflation happens AFTER money is in circulation, not BEFORE. The government gets to spend the money before inflation happens--this creates the inflation and devalues their debt.
*you don't live under a gold standard.*
What specifically don't I understand?
*The Fed's response to the 2008 crisis should show you that banks can create literally hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity without causing massive inflation. So long as the liquidity stays within the banks, which it did,*
Right--which answers your first issue about why the government would devalue the dollar. The inflation occurs when the money is circulated, not when it is made.
*What makes you think deflation is a good thing?*
It is good for those that have dollars and bad for those that have debt. If you have money, it becomes more valuable.
*The economy, and everything you enjoy in it, is built on inflation*
Mostly--though technology would be the exception. What about it?
*Remember, that when prices deflate, wages do also.*
When the wage goes down, it is because the value of the dollar went up. Remember the cost of goods also goes down. Just like when there is a minimum wage increase, prices go up. If you took a zero off of everything, from wages to prices--no one lost a cent. Just like if you added a zero to everything. The only losers and winners are the people who have dollars in debt or savings.
*You must either be very young or very well provided for to behave as if wage reduction and massive layoffs across the entire economy is a 'good and natural thing'.*
I would suggest not assuming much about someone's character or background off of a youtube comment. If you think inflation does not cause the same problems--you are grossly misinformed. Inflation causes the same problem. Again, the issue is devaluing debt which devalues savings--or valuing savings which values debt. It does not take a psychoanalyst to understand why the government chooses to devalue debt.
Yet Friedman prefers that method of taxation, probably because the normies don't understand it so won't resist it.
Who's watching during the Silent Depression of 2024?
It won't be silent for long
Thanks Biden Harris
Bank of America's increasing convenient 'technical problems' - since Q3 '21
@@bryancarr100they are pretty aggressively spreading propaganda that inflation is down and wages are up. They just twisted the data though and only went back 2 years to claim this. Any idiot with an ounce of common sense knows this is bullshit
Please.
We all like to say things like "I wish Milton or Sowell (et al) was president"... however, we can all educate ourselves a little and try to emulate them a bit in life :)
True. It's up to us to stand up and try to rise above our own ignorances.
Can’t travel the road to the presidency without going through corruption. They would never make it.
No one out there could’ve explained this point better than Milton Friedman (RIP). Bravo.
"Inflation is the CRUELEST tax of them all". Dr. Milton Freidman, BB
Inflation is reality punishing you for not paying enough taxes for the amount your government spends.
This man knew economics.
Friedman’s (Monetarism) take on the Great Depression is flawed.. I recommend u look into the Austrians approach to the Great Depression. The Austrians of the time(Mises) were the only people who predicted the depression and it’s causes correctly. I think there is some truth to Friedman’s assessment but his remedies are naive/optimistic.
I recommend u read Murray Rothbards book on the Great Depression. It explains how artificial interest rates set by the fed created the Great Depression bubble.
@@joemorales3764 Is there a place where you can read those books for free? I have a lot of respect for Friedman but can you please explain how his explanation was flawed?
News Man you can read books for free on Zlibrary
Friedman believed the depression was caused by monetary policy which is partly true.
However the Austrians would argue differently. It wasn’t particularly monetary policy but rather artificial interest rates that lead to the bubble. The Austrians of the time, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt and some others were the only people to predict the depression because artificial interest rates lead to malinvestment and when the investments fall short u are left with a economic downturn. That’s how peter schiff in 2006 properly predicted the 2008 depression and in 2017 predicted 2020.
Now Friedman’s assessment is correct that had we bailed out the first bank that failed, we might not have seen near as much damage BUT monetary policy did not play as big of a factor as artificial interest rates.
Most Austrians unlike Milton Friedman do not believe in a central bank(The Fed). Friedman eventually years before death changed his mind on this and moved away from monetarism towards Free market banking.
I love Milton Friedman but I recommend anyone who reads this to go check out Austrian economics. They are the best at debunking communism, central banking, understanding inflation and deflation, etc.
@@joemorales3764 Damn, I will look into those Austrian books of economics in the future, thanks for the link. Btw, what are artificial interest rates? Are those the ones the fed gives? Or the ones that end up not being repayed? Please explain, I need to know. Would greatly appreciate it.
News Man when I say artificial interest rates I’m referring to the ones set by the Fed. The reason I have the modifier “artificial” in front of it is to show that when the Fed sets interest rates those rates have no real value. for example in a free market banking system Banks woulf Lower interest rates when bank savings rise and raise interest rates when savings lower. The Fed does not look at savings to determine interest rates. They look at the economy which is an arbitrary measure. And so it’s artificial not natural.
It's clear very few had put in the amount of time deeply studying the subject of economics as did Milton. But the one thing that separates him from other economists is the way in which he communicates his message. He's after facts, truth, unlike most that are expressing their need to be heard and feed their enormous egos. His messages are very receptive even by his skeptics because he has a great deal of humility and care for policies that will give the individual the best possibility to make it. Love that dude.
dmb0091 plenty of people “put in the time” Milton Friedman did. Thousands and thousands of people. But very few are as smart as he was.
This wasn't a mistake . This was by designed and it was global .
@ DAVE G, Yes! The Fed Reserve was ACTUALLY a financial CARTEL started in 1910. Took smoke and mirrors to get it passed in 1913
Well there was one country that resisted the globalist's plot and experienced a period of never seen before prosperity, but they were eventually destroyed and demonized so that even to this day they are portrayed by MSM as the most horrible people that ever lived
Yes
@@nekroneschwartz2013
To be fair, Nazi Germany was just printing fiat currency at the time, it couldn't have gone on forever. There's also the nature of their war-economy, a big part of their economic growth came from supplying the military, which again was unsustainable in the long-run.
Nekrone Schwartz The foresight may have been there but the same country must also take responsibility for allowing a party with a doctrine as evil and oppressive as modern day globalists to take power. Leaving MSM spins out of the picture, what happened IS documented history. As Friedman says here, everyone taking their part of the responsibility is the only way out.
This aged well.
If you're talking about 2020 and 2021, he's still right.
@@vectorhacker-r2 I'd include every year since this talk. This aged too well!
In my opinion , the Great Depression was started by Prohibition and women being able to vote… along with Income Taxes..
Including 2024
(looks over & peeks down into the deep dark canyon we are moving toward...)
😟I think you're right.
Feels like he is exactly describing the situation today in 2022
Here is Australia as well - as we operate in precisely the same manner.
1920, 2022, 2042... the tune never changes, we just keep dancing differently
Well recessions just get cheaper and cheaper for the powerful to orchestrate that’s why they create more.
Look at what's going on with Federal Interest rate in 2024 👀
"Inflation. That's one tax you don't have to vote for, but you have to pay." That's is the best line of this whole Video.
Perhaps the best line in the entirety of economic history.
Although it has been several years since this video was posted, it still is a vibrant, in depth common debate that is still valid as it appears.
The ego does get in the way of progress and objectivity, Milton proves this over and over in all of his debates and symposiums on economics. Math does not lie but humans do.
Funny, well not funny. Fed Reserve, doesnt get it right today and didnt get it right 86 years ago. Except we have learned nothing.
Mike McGuire And still won't get it right until it's eliminate through reforming the monetary system.
Mike McGuire great point brother.
Dude they got it right.
It works exactly how it was designed. This guy is a bit of a misinformationist. There was no mistake.... THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE, THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!
The best efforts of the Federal Reserve? Cough, cough bullshit. THE BOOMS & BUSTS ARE ON PURPOSE & they always have been. It is a way to consolidate power. The small banks that fail are absorbed by those banks "too big to fail" & thus the process repeats.
Mike McGuire well they were pretty good during the Keynesian time period between 1936-1978, also known as the Golden Age of Capitalism. As we had the highest growth over 3-4 decades all over the west in productivity growth, investment growth and wealth growth (among all citizens) and yeah we also had 0 new Deficits over the Years as we were Paying back the Government investments in the 40’s.
Oh wait a minute does it make a difference on wich economic system the FED operates?s/
The Great Depression was not produced by a failure of private business; it was produced by a failure of government.
+Ed Poor It was produced by business cycles, and amplified 10x by the fed.
someone said it...The Banking industry was the biggest benefactor of the great depression.
Edd Poor , you must believe the Federal Reserve is a government institution.
if I am understanding your post correctly. You are saying that that the Government should have been regulating the actions of Wall Street, and should have forced the Fed to renew the money supply in order to offset the run on the banks. The believe the government should regulated speculators who drove stocks and then sold, leaving others holding the hot potato. Is that correct.
I had to key Cathy Newman into my browser in order know who she was. No; I have never heard of her. Actually that is what you are saying. The depression was caused from buying stock on the margin, and was sustained by the FED not renewing the money supply, thus causing the run on the banks. Thus causing the closing of the banks. The market has been kept under control by REGULATION, or at least until Glass - Steagall was repealed.
I'm so grateful for our access to talks and thoughts like these. It's really great.
Watching Milton Friedman keeps me from depression :)
We need more free market teachers like Friedman. Leftest college campus are not well served today.
we need to make leftism obsolete.
the free market must make leftism obsolete.
if we cant, god help us.
Talk about myths, there's no such thing as a "self-regulating free market" and never will be one. If you don't agree provide one documented example of a self regulating free market in all of recorded history.
Milton Friedman is the father of Supply Side Economics aka as Trickle Down Economics, enough said...
BTW Dennis, if you assert something as fact then you should be prepared to prove your claims. Conservatives keep talking all this trash about the magic of "self regulating free markets" but they have never once in all of recorded history provided one example of a self regulating free market. Why is that? Because they never have existed and never will except in the imaginations of right wing ideologues. When you can provide empirical proof of what you claim is a free market get back to me and then maybe I'll change my mind. But if you can't then maybe you should rethink what you think you know.
RealityCk Trikle down is bullshit and a total failure, Nordic countries ae a better system.
Watching this 2024. Rest in Paradise Sir Milton.
Amen 😊
federal reserve system should be abolished
no it was set in place because jp morgan had to bail out the country read the history
Our currency should be controlled by Dept. of the Treasury -- not the Fed (a coalition of private banks).
Cartel*@@GameAholicsVideo
Pass the cream cheese
@@jamessullivan9992 it was the federal government which needed to be bailed out, not the country. There is more than a semantic distinction between the two..
1:55 The great depression was produced by a failure of government, by a failure of monetary policy, said Friedman
2:02 It was produced by a failure of the Federal Reserve System to act in accordance with the intentions of those who established it.
2:45 The Federal Reserve ... would never admit that it produced the Great Depression (2:45)
2b. The hardest thing in the world for anybody is to admit that he made a mistake. (3:05)
3. The federal reserve was established in order to prevent bank panics and to keep banks from closing (4:19) 1933 it closed its own doors after one third of the nation's banks had closed. () [You can see this dramatized in "It's A Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart
This aged so incredibly well.
What a great delivery. Serious topics delivered with humour. Great skill.
Bernanke, Fed Chair 06 to 14, did admit Fed was responsible for The GD, literally saying, “we did it”.
March 2023 (svb, Credit Suisse). Friedman would be so stuned about these modern crisises.
You're missing an N.
Watching this 2024.
Fantastic video. I’m so happy we have these reminders of what really happened. We just need our leaders to view more of them and learn what NOT to do.
Appreciate the TH-cam algorithm for bringing this to me in 2021 👌🏼
and for bringing to me in Nov 2024
"Inflation is a tax you don't vote for but you have to pay."
The type of government you vote in determines what the inflation rate will be. If this wasn't true, you could vote in a very high spending government and not worry about the consequences.
To put it another way: tell that to the Venezuelans!
@@nodatron6954 No, I'm not trying to suggest anything. I'm just saying that the statement I quoted means very little by itself. I have no idea whether having a Democrat or Republican government is better for the US and have no opinion on that.
Gee, it's almost like the FED knew it was causing the depression and wanted it to keep going. I wonder what was the end result of that depression for the fed... could it be..... More power?!?!
it was to blame it on the private sector and give full power of emission to the central bank
Wish government would stop spending such much more than it earns in taxes. Both spending and taxes should decrease.
Audit The Fed.
then End the Fed
no
@@Test-sd2qp are you daft? Or just an actual Kennedy
@@ryanvess6162 no i support the federal reserve
@@Test-sd2qp Then you're a fool.
My students are learning this in their schools - elementary and high school - Hungary. I only teach one at a time, unfortunately.
The level of genius is off the charts. Please more people like him for professors
More chicago boys directed dictator general Pinoches?
@@matthewdelaney3466 I have no idea what you mean. If you're calling me a pawn, I can tell you I'm not, and it's probably you who's the pawn for being unable to evaluate what's being said for yourself.
@@matthewdelaney3466There's nothing wrong with Pinochet. He overthrew a socialist dictator. Man after my own heart.
This will never happen unless government money is 100% removed from education.
Prior to 2006, Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman told Americans to take advantage of short term loans to buy houses. As home prices skyrocketed into a bubble, the fed held mortgage interest rates low causing a catastrophic bubble that exploded in 2007.
The bubble has reinflated. But Powell has prevented it from popping by buying mortgages. Currently Powell (Fed) is sitting on $2.5 Trillion of mortgages. Powell / Fed has no income, so he buys them by printing money. Hence inflation.
I am yet to meet an American who knows that the Fed has a balance sheet, and the Fed clearly states how much money they have spent on mortgages. (Google up H41 Federal Reserve Current Release).
anyone watching this in 2020?
Yup
🙋♂️🙋♂️
No
Yes
Federal reserve never has made a mistake, amazing.
Great recession was the grandchild of the great depression. Caused by the same bureaucratic mentality that refuses to learn it's own history of ineptitude.
The recession was caused by inflation.
@@ThinkerHaistTV No. It was caused by ineptitude by government policy. Other than home values skyrocketing due to fraudulent lending practices, inflation as a whole was moderate
Inflation is made in one place and one place only, WASHINGTON DC!
Folks just ask yourself this one question, WHAT does the Fed govt do that actually works ?
Social Security ?
Welfare ?
IRS ?
What has the FED done that has helped ...
Build roads, sewer systems, bridges, railways, provide education and in my country provide healthcare amongst other things
They are very effective at spending. The best actually. If you need a country in debt they are the men and women for the job!
A better question, what have they done which nobody else can do better cheaper?
Spentastic yet dems and republicans are crying out for a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan to fix the current infrastructure. Also a random fact.. the average cost for a public restroom made by the government is around 200 thousand dollars PER SQUARE FOOT... yea the government always does it better.
Spentastic and how efficient are those in your country? When government got involved in all of those, the quality dropped.
Best thing would be abolishing the Federal Reserve!
lendir1 government period we need no masters or laws
@@evanmarks7912 So that the strong and wealthy enslave the weak and vulnerable?
Kennedy was planning on taking power away from the fed. I believe this is what got him killed.
He actually advocates for that very idea. Abolishing the fed.
@Afghan what makes you think the government protects the weak and vulnerable?
I think he makes it clear it was the fault of the federal reserve system, and maybe I missed it, but what policies and actions did the federal reserve system put into place that caused the great depression? Where can I go to get more details about that?
"...but as an objective scholar, I can tell you what the facts are." Oh, heavens how I wish this were a great consistency these days could preserve!
Never was, people just believed in it more so you could say that and people believed whatever bs you had to say
I’m at last moderately encouraged that folks are still watching this in 2024, now send it to your state legislators & reps & senators!
What he learned and was able to explain is timeless because there are patterns in life, things that never change, even when they seem like they change.
Understanding things on a large scale means understanding on a small scale first, you can always compare something big to something small, that's how you learn.
I met this man.....way to do good to humanity w intellect and courage to preserve his intellectual integrity
What's the name of that 100-page book?
I remember Milton Friedman mentioning this in a prior interview, I also heard Alan Greenspan saying so too during an interview. What Mr Friedman forgets to mention is that the Fed is a private bank not a government institution, its kind of part of the government (just because the president appoints the chairman, that's about it) and is as Federal as Federal Express. The reason why they contracted the money supply, according to many experts, was to wipe out all the small regional banks which were doing fairly well, so it wasn't really by inability or negligence, but by design.
It is a government institution. Who pays the people who work at the federal reserve? Plus the chair is appointed by the head of government so it is a government institution
@@jarred110 cart before the horse.
@@jarred110 no. It is a private bank who loans money to the United States and makes money on the interest.
Not a government institution? Seriously? In name only.
Why would the Fed want to wipe out small regional banks? The Fed is unique - it has government-granted powers. It doesn't compete with the small banks - they are the Fed's customers.
The Federal Reserve is the Cause of The Great Depression of October 27. 1929.
Federal reserve is a commercial bank, a private commercial bank
@@TahaAlZadjaliowned by Jews
No expert on Friedman, but what I got out of this short clip is that the free market got into trouble (run on banks) and the only one who could save it was the Fed if they had used the right cure, but they chose the wrong one and made the problem worse. Why was there a run on the banks in the first place and were there any other ways, except the fed, to fix the problem?. Maybe he talks about these issues elsewhere, because those are pretty important things to leave out.
This guy is brilliant and explains things so clearly.
And he is totally wrong!
@@cennamo66 how so
Quentin Tarantino in the audience at 4:10, in beige.
77Night77Shade77 Just before the nose pick.
Milton Friedman was the greatest economist since Hayek.
Listening to him relaxes me while I'm listening.
Then as I think about it, it infuriates me, because no matter how far back his lectures, they apply equally today, and we are dealing with a wash, rinse, repeat cycle.
He taught me everything I need to know about insurance in a brief, one page essay.
Only Tom Sowell could write as.concisely and cogently.
Teacner, and student. Tom Sowell picked up Milt's mantle.
God.Bless Both 'Em!
the privately owned fed reserve intentionally caused it
It may be "privately owned" but it's power stems from the state itself. It's hardly a private institution. Having elected officials or not is irrelevant to the question.
Fed is not "privately owned" at all
Liberty Pen should be bookmarked and subscribed to since before time existed. 👍
Friedman isn't just an Economist, he is a philosopher, thinker, sociologist and teacher
Friedman and Hayek theories will never get implemented, no government wants its citizens to be free
He didn’t say WHY the Fed made the mistake leading to the Great Depression. I suspect that back then the members of the Fed thought they were doing the right thing. He doesn’t say what the Fed should have done instead and why they should have done it.
There’s a lot more to learn here that’s not being said.
Why is the assumption always that people don't know what they are doing, or they are not making throughout choices? Isn't it just as likely that they knew what they were doing and they did it on purpose?
I wonder how close Friedman's ideas are to the Austrian School of economics.
Very.
Complete opposite, at the most fundamental level.
They are lumped together as "free" market advocates but they differ substantially regarding their policy prescriptions in terms of the Fed / money supply.
Uncle Milty advocated a simple monetary policy of constant, limited growth of the money supply orchestrated by the Fed and the fractional reserves banking system whereas the Austrians consider the Fed and fractional reserves banking as an unmitigated evil that is immoral in nature and uncontrollable in practice and thus need to be abolished asap.
Austrians are more heterodox, disdaining data-centric economics in favor of the philosophical. Friedman was a bit more mainstream, a Monetarist. Both are small-government types, though Austrians seem to attract more anarcho-capitalists.
For the Great Depression, the Austrian and Monetarist schools align at first, blaming the Fed for poor monetary policy. But Austrians like Rothbard go further and suggest that it was government intervention through legislation (tariffs, taxes) that stagnated the recovery.
@@DukeRevolution Yes, Austrians [mises.org et. al] are in favor of the philosophical. It is excessive to the point, where it becomes removed from the reality we live in. Even directional libertarianism is frowned upon in their circles.
His point about it's hard to admit you've made a mistake...it's even harder for politicians. They don't want their mistake to keep them from getting reelected, and they don't want their mistake to hurt their party either. So they tend to just be silent about it.
Yet when private business fails, they clammer to the government for bailout money. Not to mention the enormous quantity of tax dollars going to private defense contractors. Private business also relies heavily on government funded research and development of technology.
The Left (government, the media and too many "respected" retired politicians) would shut Dr. Friedman up, if he were alive. Fortunately, wisdom lives on!
If only we had this guy as a modern day fed chairman
Eh , the federal reserve IS a private company .
It is NOT government owned .
How is it possible that, thanks to these great men, we've known all these things for decades, yet, nobody listens to what they have to say?
Maybe because the vast majority of prominent economist at our finest schools think Friedman is wrong? Certainly the Fed played a role, but Friedman's thesis is too simplistic to explain the genesis of the Great Depression.
@@jeffneptune2922 the data provided from the fed themselves proves him correct. He received his noble prize in economics for his research on this exact subject. It’s why he’s famous because most economist actually do agree with him on the depression they just don’t believe his prescriptions about what we should do today are correct.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 If an FDR welfare state with "social safety nets" was in place in the early 1930s when economy began to feel the effects from a series of market crashes, the Great Depression never would have happened. Laissez faire capitalism, with it's near zero government regulation of corporations , banking and the market led to near complete economic collapse and a very dirty environment. In fact, the Fed was created because this free market utopia was too unstable leading to serious previous economic downturns like the "Long Depression " of the late 19th century.
@@jeffneptune2922 that’s just absolutely false. Even the most die hard welfare state supporter would not contend that. The main issue was the supply of money. Deflation was -20 something percent. How exactly are you supposed to hire anyone in those conditions? You basically can’t. It’s not until the fractional reserve system was implemented that the economy began to recover. Many would argue that the policies taken afterwards especially things like increased taxation (further limiting money supply), the work programs taking workers from private enterprise (private enterprises invest) and especially the numerous constitutional infringements enacted by FDR infact lengthened the Great Depression. Now you can argue a welfare state may have saved the country from issues of starvation and avoid things like Hoovertowns. They would not have saved the economy though and nothing really supports that idea.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 The wild speculation and buying stocks on margin along with other shenanigans on Wall Street thanks to almost no government regulation in the 1920s ignited the house of cards and the response to the developing crisis or lack of, e.g. Smoot Hawley Tariff , along with no direct help for at risk people because conservative politicians like Hoover and Coolidge didn't believe in that , made the situation far worse. Yes, the Fed played an important role too but it is not a unitary explanation for the genesis of the Great Depression. As for FDR, when he came into office in 1933, the country was in dire straights. He had to be experimental, some of his policies helped , others hurt and still others had no effect on the economy. The point is, there were no government protections for people in 1930. If you lost your job, no money for you; bank went under, you lost everything; evicted from your home , good luck finding shelter and food on the street ect. The lack of any effectual government buffer is the primary reason the country continued the downward spiral into the Great Depression. In fact, the weakening and finally removal of the FDR era protection, "Glass-Steagall Act" , ironically by Clinton played an important role in the 2008 financial crisis. Trump strongly echoed FDR/LBJ and Keynes in 2020 when he supported and signed the massive government "stimulus" to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic. It greatly expanded and extended "unemployment insurance", sent checks to nearly everyone under 100K, even those working and not effected by the pandemic, maxed out snap benefits and greatly increased food banks, froze evictions along with student loans ect. Even conservative "supply side" hypocrites like Mnuchin , Kudlow and Moore said these liberal government actions were necessary to prevent modern day "Hoovervilles" from popping up across the country.
@2iorj32r -- free market economies always have ups and downs and good and bad times. You can't always produce EXACTLY what the population will consume. Friedman is just making a solid point in saying that the Fed can ease or compound the problem based on it's actions or inactions. They have a role, a key role at times, but they often cause more problems than they fix.
What are these free market economies you speak of? I've never seen one.
TheRealMikeSmith
Unless you are over 100 years old and speaking of the USA that is understandable.
which book dr friedman was talking about at 1:50. please kindly tell.
Wikipedia: "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz.
A very powerful and accurate explanation. Dr. Friedman has just exposed those that hold the true purse strings in this country, the same ones to blame for it's economic ills. Great video.
Life was so much easier to explain in the 1970's.
Myth:
• that the Great Depression was caused by the failure of private business, and
• that the government had to step in
Reality: It was produced by a failure of government
Inflation is in direct control of the FED which is NOT a Government agency.
Rick Stokes true but it was government that installed it and continues to use it.
@@thorwilkinson2565 this is true the FED is supposed to be purely nonpartisan yet Trump constantly pushes the FED for even lower interest rates and they listen.
@Jason S. Because it's working so well in Japan...
@Jason S. Trump has urged the FED to go to negative interest rates many times I thought that's what you were implying when you said you agree with Trump.
It is an agency they use to do business..
By them allowing or agreeing for them to
Regulate U.S.money supply and charge interest,the ARE A GOVERNMENT AGENT
BY DEFAULT. splitting hairs saying it a private back sounds naive..at ANY TIME
The U.S government can STOP the use of
The Fed.Reserve...an by Constitutional authority, Print and coin U.S money as what
Founding Father intended.. And there would be not a single thing fed.reserve could do but find other jobs...because its a vehicle
Not owner of the vehicle..get it,got it yw.
Well said! Some people will still believe the lies their high school teacher told them though
Wasn’t the FED created to smooth the business cycle? Wasn’t it created to ensure that severe recessions and depressions wouldn’t happen?
You should probably read The Progressive Era by Murray Rothbard. There's a free pdf on the Mises Institute and you'll find what your looking for on page 463. Plus there's The Creature From Jekyll Island that discusses the formation of the Federal Reserve. I highly recommend that you check them out.
DOWN WITH THE FED.
The Federal Reserve must love this guy.
Federal Reserve does NOT equal representative government. It is more accountable to private business than the people. Any objective person knows this.
I'm studying financial economics myself and while I agree with him, this is a big oof to the Fed. If not for the human element, I think the Fed would be good for the economy. It's a conflict of interests I'm worried about and who actually runs the Fed, and what their interests actually are.
even without a human factor, a centralized apparatus is incapable of competing with a decentralized system where billions of agents make simultaneous decisions where some fail and others succeed
@@usuario6196 That's right. Expertise is diffuse amongst individuals. Also, how would you ever get rid of the human element. Even AI is made by humans, and I wouldn't trust the people who would teach it how to think with the money supply.
how to buy a country pennies on the dollar
The question is, if the m2 money supply decreased by 1/3 in the Great Depression, where did the money go?
Banks have done more injury to religion, tranquility, property, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or will do good. John Adams
Without big banks, socialism would be impossible. Vladimir Lenin
2020: here we go again!!!!
I understand this clip is old, but does anyone have it with better audio?
A smart man. If only the free market could truly exist...
Yeah just a total coincidence that the industrial era railroad barons got greedy and that’s when the entire wealth disparity happened. You’re not a bootlicker at all, just keep telling yourself that
Metamorphosis - there speaks dangerous ignorance.
cool story
audit the FED
audit? I say disband them.
Anyone know in what year did this speach take place ?
He says that the FED could have PREVENTED the crisis. He says the free market was NOT to blame. But he does not explain WHY the crisis happened in the first place. He was one one those people who believe that economic downturns....just happen....animal spirits?
Pretty much every "economic people" understands that business cycles are natural.
SAIDsoe
Pretty much all "economic people" thought housing prices could not go down.
BarrySlisk That is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Plenty of Austrians and monetarists were calling the bubble. Hell, plenty of people got rich off shorting cdo's. Perhaps you are referring to the finance kiddies that are perma bulls that were witnessed on msnbc and CNN ect...
With that said, you never know a bubble till it pops.
SAIDsoe
"With that said, you never know a bubble till it pops."
Sort of contradicts what you just wrote :)
Btw. There are very few austrians. And austrians certainly do not think that bubbles (except very small ones) are natural.
BarrySlisk It does not contradict anything. Austrians still believe in fluctuations and bubbles dude. They just approach the business cycle in a different manner. Namely, that interest rates are a price that indicates to business, periods of expansion and contraction. They still acknowledge that Mal investment can occur. It's just less volatile. The Austrian school is small, but to say almost no one is an austrian... obsurd.