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Jennifer Burns

What Jennifer Burns thinks about government

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Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution, and the biographer of both Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand.

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3 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Jennifer Burns has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingFriedman and Schwartz's account of the Great Depression became the Federal Reserve's permanent playbook, because no Fed chair wants to be the villain of the sequel.

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    Their wordsFriedman and Schwartz becomes the playbook for the Federal Reserve. We have lived through this, the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve is ready to loan. Covid, the Federal Reserve does all kinds of new things, because no Federal Reserve chair wants to be in Friedman-Schwartz 2.0 that somebody writes, where they're the bad guy who let the economy meltdown.

    ↗Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457youtube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe Chicago School's radical Depression-era proposals were meant as emergency measures, never as a permanent renegotiation of the line between state and market.

    Their wordsWhat is important to note though is that they thought of all of those as emergency measures to get through the emergency not as permanent alterations in the state of what had to be and not permanent alterations between state and market

    ↗Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingThe return of inflation is what made Donald Trump's second presidency possible, and therefore what makes everything that presidency changes possible.

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    Their wordsAnd so my argument is, that has now opened the door to the presidency of Donald Trump, which is potentially a deeply transformative moment that will change the size and shape of government, that may change our foreign policy profoundly, that may change our immigration policy, that may change the demographics of our country, all of that, and my thesis is that that's all been made possible by inflation.

    ↗Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457youtube.com 13th of 20 in this recording