Milton Friedman Teaches Monetary Policy

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  • 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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Komentáře • 73

  • @IAmNotAHorse
    @IAmNotAHorse Před 9 měsíci +4

    Wish you were here, Milton.

  • @ARP1714
    @ARP1714 Před 6 lety +119

    Love to hear this man talk. Brilliant

    • @masada2828
      @masada2828 Před 5 lety +6

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

  • @DailyHabits14
    @DailyHabits14 Před 4 lety +101

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

  • @kyled1673
    @kyled1673 Před 4 lety +101

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

    • @sethabdul7824
      @sethabdul7824 Před 4 lety +12

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

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety

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

  • @riteshkumarsoni5796
    @riteshkumarsoni5796 Před 5 lety +48

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

  • @nicholaschristodoulou3821
    @nicholaschristodoulou3821 Před 3 lety +20

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

  • @manaskumarbehera262
    @manaskumarbehera262 Před 4 lety +89

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

  • @Myndir
    @Myndir Před 11 lety +27

    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 Před 6 lety +1

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

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 5 lety +4

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

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 5 lety

      @@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 Před 4 lety +1

      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

  • @SmashBrosBrawl
    @SmashBrosBrawl Před 4 lety +11

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

  • @stevemcgee99
    @stevemcgee99 Před 11 lety +13

    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
    @stephennickel5576 Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @R9dyhQ.RDPD99yF0gDmSZqC
    @R9dyhQ.RDPD99yF0gDmSZqC Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 5 lety +7

      Nominal GDP divided by the price level.

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety

      At 4:55. Just for the record

  • @dontaskwhatkindofmusic
    @dontaskwhatkindofmusic Před 4 lety +4

    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 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @ukps9632
    @ukps9632 Před 3 měsíci

    What of cost push inflation eg fuel shortages?

  • @hodoprime
    @hodoprime Před 11 lety +15

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

  • @Myndir
    @Myndir Před 11 lety +9

    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.)

  • @talalkhan1597
    @talalkhan1597 Před 4 lety +6

    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 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @TheSzymax
      @TheSzymax Před 4 lety +1

      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
    @kondasandeep7 Před 6 lety +9

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

    • @TheHonestBroker
      @TheHonestBroker Před 5 lety +6

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

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 5 lety

      @@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 Před 4 lety +13

      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 Před 4 lety +8

      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 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @robertprawendowski2850
    @robertprawendowski2850 Před 7 měsíci

  • @amauremedina2045
    @amauremedina2045 Před 4 lety +1

    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.

  • @Kyle36147
    @Kyle36147 Před 4 lety +1

    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 Před 4 lety

      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 Před 4 lety

      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 Před 4 lety

      @@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.

  • @fps6612
    @fps6612 Před 3 lety +2

    A true genius

  • @scottab140
    @scottab140 Před 8 lety +2

  • @rdc323
    @rdc323 Před 4 lety +4

    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 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @roninviking
    @roninviking Před 4 lety +7

    Banks create money by fractional reserve banking...

    • @stopsign593
      @stopsign593 Před 4 lety +10

      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

  • @cabalpaxiarch7239
    @cabalpaxiarch7239 Před rokem

    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?

  • @jejeje6034
    @jejeje6034 Před 4 lety +1

    Qe infinity

  • @tynoArcher
    @tynoArcher Před 4 lety +7

    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 Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @drowjack
    @drowjack Před 4 lety

    Do not start your printers

  • @girurerumu
    @girurerumu Před 4 lety

    haha printer go brrr

  • @louiethegreater7019
    @louiethegreater7019 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @donaldthesavage1288
      @donaldthesavage1288 Před 4 lety +14

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

    • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739
      @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739 Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @veramann
    @veramann Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @Covazs
    @Covazs Před 4 lety +3

    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
    @oscarpall6604 Před 4 lety

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

  • @mcsibs
    @mcsibs Před 7 měsíci

    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
    @KILIMANJARO9 Před 6 lety +3

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

    • @fredpearson5204
      @fredpearson5204 Před 5 lety +1

      Your point?

    • @midassandahl5076
      @midassandahl5076 Před 4 lety

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

  • @louiethegreater1
    @louiethegreater1 Před 5 lety

    Milton Friedman teaches Globalism.

  • @evolutiagames
    @evolutiagames Před 5 lety +1

    Buy Bitcoin!