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Ayn Rand and the Financial Crisis
by Sylvia Bokor
(June 15, 2009)
In this time of financial crisis and the Democrats' irrational response to it, Americans are showing a growing interest in Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Increasing sales of her masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged, have been reported around the United States.
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Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis
by Richard M. Salsman
(April 27, 2009)
America's financial market is suffering not because of greed or freedom, but because of the widespread acceptance of altruism and the consequent government intervention in banking.
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False Solutions and Real Problems: The Housing Crisis Revisited
by Thomas Sowell
(March 16, 2009)
Like most political "solutions," the solution to the affordable housing "problem" took little or no account of the wider repercussions this would entail.
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Alan Greenspan, Meet Reality (Part II)
by Michael J. Hurd
(February 27, 2009)
Alan Greenspan entered office considered perhaps the greatest Chairman of the Federal Reserve in its history; as one of the greatest economic minds in history -- for all of the wrong reasons. Now, only a year or two into retirement, his reputation is, like our economy, in a shambles.
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Alan Greenspan, Meet Reality (Part I)
by Michael J. Hurd
(February 26, 2009)
Were Soviet Communists, German National Socialists, Italian Fascists and European "democratic socialists", despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, right all along?
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The "Economic Stimulus" Myth
by Harry Binswanger
(February 24, 2009)
Obama's "economic stimulus" plan will further damage the economy and result in inflation in the long run. The only "economic stimulus" is economic freedom -- freedom from central planning.
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The "Full Faith and Credit" Behind Our Government "Confidence" Men
by Edward Cline
(February 21, 2009)
Inside the mystique behind the current usage of the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. government.
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Gold and a Free Market: The Solutions to Our Financial Crisis
by Brian Simpson
(October 31, 2008)
Ayn Rand observed decades ago that "one of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."
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Was the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Caused by Lack of Regulations?
by William B. Conerly
(October 9, 2008)
Did lack of regulation create the subprime mortgage crisis? I am asked this all the time. The short answer: Of course not. Nowhere close. Not a chance. Here is the long answer.
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Bill Gates Needs an Economic Course on Free-Markets
by John Stossel
(June 20, 2007)
You want poor countries to get rich, Bill Gates? Work for free-market reform.
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