Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009—Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.
Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing ?
Jon Husband – You mean that it’s not sufficient to point out to them that Alan Greenspan – who apparently was the only person in the United States not to have recognized that a bubble in housing was forming years ago, and when he did begin to suspect that it was within the realm of possibility, didn’t bother to try to do anything about it because he figured there wasn’t anything he could do about it anyway – assuming it was really there to begin with, that is – that same Alan Greenspan was not merely a devotee of Ayn Rand’s theory of the sociopath as social savior, but one of her damned acolytes, following her around like a puppy ? She was one of the invited guests when Reagan hired him to head up the commission to “fix” social security, fix it real good.
Or perhaps they still think Greenspan was the “maestro,” and you’d just be elevating the posturing moron to even higher status as one of easy Al’s familiars.