The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy.

Economists
Milton Friedman
Born in 1912 in New York to Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Friedman rose from poverty to champion free markets. As monetarism's architect, he challenged Keynesian orthodoxy and reshaped monetary policy. Nobel 1976.
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