“The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.” IfsWorldKindCountryProblemCuttingModernEasierRateShockRegulationWagesFloatingEuro Author:Milton Friedman
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“It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.” WaySeemsMightBitsWorryReturnChinaDebtFoolishJapanElsewhereChina And Japan Author:Milton Friedman
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“I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.” WritingImportantSeemsSchoolPiecesMagazinesGraduatesGraduate School Author:Aleksandar Hemon