Nothing to Shrug About
Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, originally published in 1957, is once again — and justly — becoming required reading for lovers of freedom, but it’s not without its flaws....
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Atlas Shrugged: The Book
Some of us remember our first reading of Atlas Shrugged like our first time behind the wheel of a car: intoxicating but inexplicably discomforting in spots. The 1,000-plus pages...
Egypt’s Present Path
Though much of the world waits with bated breath to see what type of government Egypt will end up with, the shape of Egypt’s government is almost a foregone...
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WTO Rules Against Boeing, U.S. Government
With the turmoil in the Middle East and the catastrophe in Japan, it is easy to be distracted from the power plays of the global elite. But this week’s...
Financial Sector Lures Math Talent from Industry
Credit Time magazine for identifying, however imprecisely, a very important but little understood consequence of the modern Federal Reserve-based financial system: a “brain drain” that is luring many of...
Egypt’s Present Path
With turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa continuing to spread in the wake of the departure of Egypt’s longtime dictator and U.S. stooge Hosni Mubarak, it is...
Civilization and Tsunamis
It is a signal irony that, within days of the apocalyptic earthquake and tsunami that have brought Japan to her knees, archaeologists announced the possible discovery, after millenia of...
Battling “Business As Usual”
Freshman Senator Rand Paul wasted little time in following through on campaign pledges to straighten out the country’s fiscal mess, causing Big Government cronies to caterwaul. ...
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The Budget: Battling Business As Usual
When newly elected Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) proposed cutting aid to Israel, the howls of protest from all across the bipartisan political spectrum were painfully revealing. Matthew Brooks, executive...
European Dis-Union
An economic crash is impending in Europe as more than a dozen countries face financial ruin, and an economic crash will likely be accompanied by the fall of the...
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Eurozone Avoids Meltdown — For Now
In defiance of all logic, the eurozone weathered a week of harrowing instability this past week, with Portugal, Spain, and Italy managing to persuade the bond markets that their...
Financial World Eyes Portugal
The outlook for the sale today of three- and nine-year bonds by the government of Portugal is still cloudy, but late-breaking news that Japan has committed to buy bonds...
Many Bailed-out Banks May Fail Anyway
As many as 98 banks, which took in a total of $4.2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), may fail anyway, according to a study of third...
Violent Protests in Greece
The real meaning of economic bubbles and their aftermath is beginning to rear its ugly head in Greece, where civil unrest paralyzed the country during a violent general strike...
Chronicles of Narnia: Masterpiece of Christian Allegory
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, is a treasure trove of timeless Christian truths able to edify, enlighten, educate, and entertain both children and adults alike. ...
Censoring WikiLeaks — Then the Internet?
With the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, what has been called the “first information war” has taken a critical turn. The U.S. government, furious at the...
UN Likely Caused Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
The United Nations has been guilty over the decades of plenty of criminal and otherwise destructive acts, but causing a deadly epidemic hasn’t been one of them — until...
Twilight of Internet Freedom?
It’s no secret that the federal government — the FCC, in particular — has been seeking for years for ways to take control of the Internet. For a decade...
Sino-Russian Abandonment of the Dollar
The long-awaited international renunciation of the dollar has begun. ...
Ron Paul, the Fed, and Changing Times
The times, they are a-changin’. Unthinkable only a year or two ago, the prospect that Congressman Ron Paul may actually receive the long-deserved chairmanship of a House subcommittee grows...