her pay and saying it s not a salary increase. in the midst of crime rising to alarming rates. none of our political figures deserve raises. rachel campos-duffy down in del rio, texas. rachel: joe biden says our border is secure. raise your hand if you say our border is secure. all right. there s your answer on that. ainsley: capitol hill is going to continue to stay cloudy there today. 60 degrees is your high. so take a sweater. ainsley: i m going to washington after the show. we are celebrating mary s birthday. ainsley: we are so glad you were born ms. mary. happy birthday. steve: what would be interesting though because peter will be there, too. i wonder at what point peter will start to pick up the bill. he is a grown up and has a job. ainsley: never, not when your dad is there. steve: you are probably right. somebody who knows about parenting is rachel campos-duffy. she is live in del rio, texas. and today, because so many people are worried about
capitol that your mom and i are coming down there for your sister s birthday. at what point do you pick up a tab? just saying you are a grown up. peter: did you see these charts about inflation? brian: right. that s true. steve: thank you joe biden? that s why peter can t pick up the tab? peter: we can put all those charts back up. yeah. steve: all right, peter, thank you. ainsley: happy birthday to mary we are glad she was born. you got a fox news alert. brian: looks like i did. so far real quick. steve: we are the fox news channel. brian: one year the interest rates gone up to 7% to help cure inflation which the president brought in with him. look at that over 7%. if you are buying a mortgage one year ago this is a g good move honey put the down payment down totally changed. ainsley: mortgage doubled and mortgage doubled and so has gas. steve: i went on one of those mortgage calculator this morning for new york city. when you look at that number that we just p
Bob Chitester: The man who explained capitalism to the world Rainer Zitelmann
Bob Chitester, 83, died after a seven-year battle with cancer. A Wall Street Journal article described Bob Chitester as “the man who made Milton Friedman a star.” And it was right.
Yes, Nobel laureate Friedman would in any case have become one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. But without Chitester, he and his ideas would never have reached anywhere near as many people as they did. Friedman himself said, “I have always believed that influence is exerted much more by the written word .… My own role was persuading economists, not the public at large.” In this respect, Friedman was like most scientists, with the exception of physicists such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, who were geniuses at both science and self-marketing.