Cross: Occupy Wall Street Protestors Want to Take The Capitalism Out of ‘Crony Capitalism’
Comments Don Watkins at Voices of Reason:[...] the real motive of the protesters is not to end ‘crony capitalism’–it’s to attack real capitalism and end whatever is left of it in America.
For years, Washington has favored certain bankers by intervening in the market. But that has nothing to do with genuine capitalism. Capitalism means that the government does one thing–protects us from force and fraud–leaving us free to conduct our economic affairs as we see fit. [...]
What the protesters object to is not government stacking the deck to determine winners and losers. They just want the government to pick different winners and losers. They want to take the ‘capitalism’ out of ‘crony capitalism’–not the other way around.
Steve Jobs and The Death of Capitalism
Scott Holleran has some poignant commentary on those who hate Steve Jobs:The response to the death of Steve Jobs is overwhelming; as I indicated in yesterday’s post, there’s an outpouring of admiration, affection, and love for the all-American capitalist. But there’s also what Ayn Rand called the hatred of the good for being good and the contrast echoes today’s stark cultural schism. As if we needed more evidence that America is dying and desperately in need of resuscitation, the Christians known for anti-gay protests of American soldiers’ funerals announced on Twitter that its members plan to picket Steve Jobs’s funeral...
Read the rest at Scott Holleran's Blog.
Objective Economics Book Excerpt
Here is a link to an excerpt from Dr. Northrup Buechner's c0ntroversial book Objective Economics: The Implications of Ayn Rand's Philosophy on the Science of Economics which is now on sale at Amazon.Video: Andrew Bernstein on The Objectivist Lolapalooza
Dr. Bernstein talks about the an Objectivist Lalapalozza in New York City.Capitalist Solutions
Damn.We’ve just been reading Dr. Andrew Bernstein’s latest book and it is a barn-stormer. Entirely relevant to today’s political and economic problems this short volume is the perfect antidote to the problems the Occupy Wall Street children's choir are crying about.Go grab yourself a copy (and a few for your liberal– and conservative — friends) as it is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.Here is the table of contents:Introduction: Resolving the Country’s ProblemsPart 1: The Relevant Principles of ObjectivismPart 2: Rational Solutions to Current Moral/Political Problems
1 Repudiating Environmentalism in Theory and Practice
2 Defeating Islamic Totalitarianism
3 A Free Market Solution to Problems of Health Care
4 The Right to Abortion as an Application of Individual Rights
5 The Superiority of Free Market Education to Government Schooling
6 Individual Rights Applied to Representative IssuesEpilogue: Re-Stating the Theme