As the Millennium approached in the late 1990s, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman criticised the Wall Street Journal (“WSJ”) for its ideological commitment to an open-border immigration policy in the United States.
This argument provoked considerable public interest. For Friedman, then the world’s leading monetarist (back then a term of political abuse applied by the Left to economists from the Right), was engaging in intellectual battle with America’s leading daily publication of the Right.