| Recently Senator Rand Paul, potential presidential candidate and self-proclaimed expert on monetary issues, sat down for an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. was asked whom he would choose, ideally, to head the Federal Reserve and he suggested Milton Friedman -- "he's not an Austrian, but he would be better than what we have." The interviewer then gently informed him that Friedman -- who would have been 101 years old if he were still alive -- is, in fact, dead. O.K., said Mr. Paul, "Let's just go with dead, because then you probably really wouldn't have much of a functioning Federal Reserve." |
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