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Milton Friedman on the fallacy of interest rates and monetary policy

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Milton Friedman
Hoover Institution, Hoover Digest: Reviving Japan, April 30, 1998

"After the U.S. experience during the Great Depression, and after inflation and rising interest rates in the 1970s and disinflation and falling interest rates in the 1980s, I thought the fallacy of identifying tight money with high interest rates and easy money with low interest rates was dead. Apparently, old fallacies never die."