Sign Of The Times

Posted by Equity Private, Oct 15, 2008, 10:38am

You know capitalism is in decline when the University of Chicago quibbles over naming an institute for Milton Friedman. You know there is some journalistic pandering going on when that story is resurrected from the grave it settled into months ago.

Faculty at Chicago Battles Over Institute Named for Friedman [Bloomberg]

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 10:41AM

even Bald n' Beard ain't FIRSTY!!

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 10:46AM

Milton Friedman made important contributions to economics and our understanding of the world. Which is more then I can say of any Po-mo nonsense.

This is why I tell my alma mater to go pound sand during fund raising events.

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Posted by Novice, Oct 15, 2008 11:06AM

@2 better policy is just to give money to the econ dept. Or if you're feeling really vindictive, the business school. Of course, I say this like I have money to give.

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 11:11AM

@2 & 3, both of you are ungrateful pricks. Just because the poor Sociology & Anthro majors, and the other former members of the Spartacus Youth League, are pissed off that Milton is getting a building named after him doesn't mean you shouldn't donate. I mean, the very contributions Milton made are the reason he is getting a building, no?

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Posted by Novice, Oct 15, 2008 11:26AM

@4 I'm an ingrate but too much of a peon to be a prick. I say give money, but to areas with some value-creation, like econ, instead of to dumping it in the laps of the administration so that they can plant more tulip beds that they'll rip up two weeks later. Of course that means the school won't give as much money to the department, but you do what you can.

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 11:28AM

@4 I'd rather donate my (hypothetical) money to Accion. Better karmic ROI. I think Friedman would approve.

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 11:33AM

And all you dolts THAT is the part of U Chicago that Obama identifies with - the anti-Friedman wing, of which Bill Ayers is no doubt an honorable member.

I am sick and tired of folks trying to draw some tenuous links to the one part of Chicago that they are aware of, forgetting that the rest of the school is no different from any typical left wing univ in this country.

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Posted by Novice, Oct 15, 2008 11:37AM

@7 Wouldn't Obama identify with... the law school? Those guys are the home of Coase and Posner. Why draw tenuous links between the lawyers and the typically left-wing parts of any university?

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 11:37AM

7 Look, its this simple: as soon as McCain added airhead Palin to the ticket he lost all hope for being taken seriously. There is no choice but BO. End of story.

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 12:01PM

Why wouldn't you just donate to the Fiji house? Winkelreid and Byron Trott came out of it. . .

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 12:32PM

Fuck Fiji. Hayden Schlossberg came out of ADPhi so I donate there. By far the best ROI for me

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 1:00PM

Yea, but then how are us Fijis going to afford rohypnol? Do you have any idea of its street value today? We might as well just stop raping. Well, who am I kidding. . . we can't stop!

Wising I wasn't in NYC

-2 FRAT 2 HANDLE

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Posted by guest, Oct 15, 2008 8:06PM

WTF you dumbasses make me sorry I just pounded your gfrnds instead of your faces during the LCB - cash out now, set me up a tab at Jimmy's, and I'll deliver you some 2nd yr OPP ROI

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Posted by guest, Oct 16, 2008 12:59PM

what the fuck is the lcb?

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