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J. Kent "Kenny" Friedman oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted as part of the Houston Jewish History Archive.J. Kent Friedman has recently retired as the General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Morae Legal Corporation, an international legal consulting firm. He grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi, and received a B.B.A and a LL.B. degree from Tulane, as well as a LL.M. degree in Taxation from Boston University. Kenny has served as president of the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation, president of the Southwest Region of the American Jewish Committee, and chairman of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, among many other positions in Jewish communal and Houston lay leadership. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Leon Jaworski Award from the Houston Bar Association Auxiliary and the Max Nathan Award from the American Jewish Committee. He is married to Dr. Ann Friedman, and has five children and eight grandchildren.
In this interview, Kenny speaks of his childhood and family history, and the role Judaism had in each. He discusses his secondary education and career, exploring how his Jewish identity adapted to and influenced his development as a lawyer and prominent community leader. Kenny speaks of his move to Houston and his involvement with the city’s political and social organizations, especially the Harris County -Houston Sports Authority. He discusses his son Andrew Friedman’s distinguished career in baseball, including stints as the general manager of the Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Dodgers, and describes what it was like to have competing rooting interests during the now-controversial 2017 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He addresses the Covid-19 pandemic and its influence on his personal life. Throughout, Kenny shares insightful anecdotes from his long and distinguished career of legal work and community service
Friedman Family Papers 1844-1944
No full textAaron Friedman was a rabbi, shochet, and author. He was a shochet in Stavisk, Poland, Bernkastel-on-the-Moselle, Germany, and New York City, and author of a defense of the practice of Shechita entitled, âTuv Taâamâ in 1874. This collection also contains information on his son, Abraham Friedman and his grandson, Nathan Friedman. This collection consists of correspondence, business documents, family photographs, personal effects, genealogical information, and publications.This collection is located at the American Jewish Historical Society located in Boston. For information on accessing collections at AJHS Boston please visit their website at: http://www.ajhsboston.org/index.htm.Donor information unknownAaron Tzevi Friedman was born in Stavisk, Poland on March 22, 1822. When he was seventeen he became the shochet (a licensed and trained ritual slaughterer) for the city of Stavisk. He later moved to Bernkastel-on-the-Moselle in Germany where in 1844, he became a rabbi and shochet for the city. He married Rebecca Lieberman of Frankfort. In 1848, he moved to New York where he was chosen as shochet of one of the largest abattoirs (slaughterhouse) in the city. In response to attacks made against the practice of shechita, Friedman wrote a defense of shechita entitled âTuv Taâamâ in 1874. He became known as the âBaâal Shemâ of America because of his strict Orthodoxy. He remained a shochet of New York City until his death on May 17, 1876.Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Friedman Family Papers; P-948; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.far031
Reception - Jeff Miller, Mitchell Friedman
No full textJeff Miller (Class of 1999) and Mitchell B. Friedman (Class of 1999) at the 125 Alumni of Distinction reception.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/alumni_125/1074/thumbnail.jp
Reception - Mitchell Friedman, Jim Morici
No full textMitchell B. Friedman (Class of 1999) and James Morici (Class of 1979) at the 125 Alumni of Distinction reception.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/alumni_125/1162/thumbnail.jp
The sub-optimality of the Friedman rule and the optimum quantity of money
No full textAccording to the logic of the Friedman rule, the opportunity cost of holding money faced by private agents should equal the social cost of creating additional fiat money. Thus nominal rates of interest should be zero. This logic has been shown to be correct in a number of contexts, with and without various distortions. In practice, however, economies that have confronted very low nominal rates of interest over extended periods have been viewed as performing very poorly rather than as performing very well. Examples include the U.S. during the Great Depression, or Japan during the last decade. Indeed economies experiencing low nominal interest rates have often suffered severe and long-lasting recessions. This observation suggests that the logic of the Friedman rule needs to be reassessed. We consider the possibility that low nominal rates of interest imply that fiat money is a good asset. As a result, agents are induced to hold an excessive amount of savings in the form of money, and a suboptimal amount of savings in other, more productive forms. Hence low nominal interest rates can lead to low rates of investment and, in an endogenous growth model, to low rates of real growth. This is a cost of following the Friedman rule. Benefits of following the Friedman rule include the possibility that banks will provide considerable liquidity, reducing the cost of transactions that require cash. With this trade-off, we describe conditions under which the Friedman rule is and is not optimal. Finally, our model predicts that excessively high rates of inflation, and nominal rates of interest, are detrimental to growth. This implication of the model, which is consistent with observation, in turn implies that there is a nominal rate of interest that maximizes an economy’s real growth rate. We characterize this interest rate, and we describe when it is and is not optimal to drive the nominal rate of interest to its growth maximizing level.
Milton Friedman and U.S. monetary history: 1961-2006
No full textThis paper, using extensive archival material from several countries, brings together scattered information about Milton Friedman's views and predictions regarding U.S. monetary policy developments after 1960 (i.e., the period beyond that covered by his and Anna Schwartz's Monetary History of the United States). The author evaluates these interpretations and predictions in light of subsequent events.Friedman, Milton ; Federal Reserve System - History ; Economic history
The Optimum Quantity of Money Revisited: Distortionary Taxation in a Search Model of Money
No full textThis paper incorporates a distortionary tax into the microfoundations of money framework and revisits the optimum quantity of money. An optimal policy may consist of both a positive tax rate and a positive nominal interest rate: if the buyer’s surplus share is inefficiently small, the intensive margin is distorted and the constrained optimal policy combines a sales tax with a money growth rate above that prescribed by the Friedman rule. Monetary, but not fiscal, policy alters the agent’s bargaining position, leaving a special role for a deviation from the Friedman rule. Under similar conditions, this conclusion carries over to competitive pricing.Money; Search; Friedman Rule; Sales Tax
Memo from William M. Friedman, Chairman, Heart Mountain City Planning Board, to Guy Robertson, et al. January 15, 1943
No full textMemorandum of understanding from William Friedman to incarcerees regarding a public hearing on the proposed location of livestock at Heart Mountain incarceration camp.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Class of 1893
No full textClass composite photograph for Chicago-Kent College of Law class of 1893, formerly Kent College of Law Chicago.
Students and faculty pictured:
Faculty
Thomas E.D. Bradley
Russell H. Curtis
William H. Dyrenforth
Marshall D. Ewell
John Gibbons
James G. Kiernan
Harold N. Moyer
Milton O. Naramore
Students
Alexander C. Allen
C. Louis Amberg
George D. Barden
Henry C. Blayney
Charles H. Bowles
William A. Bowles
Charles Buford
Phill Chanceler/Chancellor
Frank Hall Childs
Alvin T. Clark
George S. Cole
Hampton Corlett
Alexander A. Davidson
Henry S. Dixon
James J. Ennis
John J. Ford
William Friedman
Arthur W. Fulton
Fred Gerlach
Walter J. Gunthorp
Willis A. Hall
Arthur Hoffman
John Everett Holland
Andrew Hummeland
James F. Hutchison
William G. Ide
Hans G. Johnson
Hugh J. Kearns
Orlando W. Keatley
James Joseph Kelly
Frank T. Kinnare
James W. La Mure
Amos S. Lakey
Harvey Lantz
Charles Lederer
Leon L. Loehr
Thomas J. Mair
John McCollum
William B. McIntyre
Lee Ezekiel Mighell
J. McKenzie Moss
Nils F. Olson
Arthur B. Pease
Ralph F. Potter
Albert D. Rich
Edward D. Runyan
Augustine J. Schiml
Henderson C. Shumaker
Charles E. Soule Jr.
Hugh R. Stewart
Curran Harvey Strickler
Francis J. Sullivan
Enoch M. Thatcher
Linford Hugh Upton
Claude L. Waller
William B. Walrath
Charles S. Walworthy
Curtis L. Webb
Francis Waller Welch
Edgar P.H. West
Wallace H. Whigam
William Warfield Wilson
Anton T. Zemanhttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/composites/1000/thumbnail.jp
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