November 23, 2008
atlas shrugged updated
Dagny and Hank searched through the ruins of the 21st Century Investment Bank. As they stepped through the crumbling cubicles, a trampled legal pad with a complex column of computations captured Dagny's attention. She fell to her hands and knees and raced through the pages and pages of complex math written in a steady hand. Her fingers bled from the paper cuts, and she did not care. "What is it, Dagny?" "Read this." "Good God!" "Yes, it's an experimental formula for a financial strategy that could convert static securities into kinetic profits that would increase at an almost exponential rate."more from McSweeney's here.
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Convulsed with tears rolling down my cheeks laughing. Someone should do a poetry adaptation for Jim's column.
Posted by: CriticalMassI | Nov 23, 2008 4:56:51 PM
People who post garbage like this obviously either have not read Atlas Shrugged by the former emigrant from the Soviet Union under the butcher Stalin, or never understood what the book was about. The recent events by the criminal bankers in New YOrk are nothing less than garden variety fraud no different than the similar fraud perpetuated during the former stock market crash of 1929, which dropped the market about 90% by the summer of 1932. While the big shot bankers were telling the ordinary investors to stay in the market and stimulate it, they were selling as their successors are today. These criminal bankers violated all the ethical rules and many laws, but instead of prosecuting them our government is bailing them out. And to add insult to injury the new "change" president is even appointing many of them to continue their criminal ways in his administration. But is not all this what a dumbed down American electorate deserves? Are these not the consequences of a totally failed system of "higher" education? Let's shut down the New York gambling casino, or chage its name to truthfully describe its fraudulent operations. But fraud and ponzi schemes have nothing to do with great books like Atlas Shrugged written by a genius level writer, a book by the way which still earns millions of dollars every year long after Ayn Rand's death.
Posted by: Winfield J. Abbe | Nov 25, 2008 1:22:27 AM
Well, that proves it's great literature and that Objectivism is actually philosophy besides! It still earns millions of dollars every year.
Posted by: CriticalMassI | Nov 25, 2008 8:47:59 AM
Winfield,
I agree completely with your economic analysis of the Wall Street banksters who should indeed be in jail and would be if they had not already bought all the politicians. I suspect you are a libertarian, whereas I am a socialist. How is this possible?
Posted by: Jared | Nov 25, 2008 10:17:30 AM
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