103. Milton Friedman, Enfant Terrible
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about Milton Friedman, ultra capitalism, and how the United States staged a coup in Chile
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared
BOOK:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/
SOURCES:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/19/us-economists-wrong-predictions
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bill-clintons-balanced-budget-destroyed-the-economy-2012-9
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2022028pap.pdf
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PhillipsCurve.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Milton-Friedman
https://academic.oup.com/book/2057/chapter/141965295
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/milton-friedman.asp
https://newrepublic.com/article/172441/milton-friedman-met-pinochet
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-chicago-boys-in-chile-economic-freedoms-awful-toll/
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/chile-chicago-boys-neoliberalism-friedman-allende-pinochet
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/business/economy/economy-interest-rates-inflation.html
https://progressive.org/latest/milton-friedman-is-still-running-show-imf-rowden-231025/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/chile-years-pinochet-s-coup-impunity-must-end/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5584942/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/opinion/economics-public-opinion.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/socf.12153
Chicago. Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine. Harlow, England: Penguin Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Scared, the podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | The podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. |
| 0:30.8 | David, we skipped last week on the pod. |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah, you were out of town and I was moving. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, but your new apartment? |
| 0:36.7 | It's, it's sick. I got a pool. |
| 0:38.4 | It's very nice. One bedroom? It's, it's sick, I got a pool. It's very nice. |
| 0:40.3 | One bedroom? |
| 0:41.2 | It's a one bed. |
| 0:45.5 | Like, there's a door between where I sleep and where I live. |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.2 | Which is. |
| 0:48.5 | It's impressive, honestly. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm so proud. |
| 0:55.6 | There's a sliding glass door to the pool, which is shocking. |
| 0:56.2 | Wow. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.6 | So you live in a McMansion now, basically. I do. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm rich. |
| 1:00.6 | You're Jeff Bezos. |
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