[Chode]

A=A, works for me

[aquila48]

” It is increasingly obvious that we are about to experience a profound, president-led ideological shift that will have a big impact on both the US and the world,”

Music to my ears.

[InterceptPoint]

President Elect Galt?

[stylin19a]

crap, I still haven’t made it through Galt’s speech

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Why would anyone recommend reading that ugly satanic hag?

[seawolf101]

[showme_the_Glory]

Bkmrk

[proust]

The ramblings of someone who lived on gov’t assistance in real life? No thanks. I still have a stack of real literature to get through.

[Regulator]

Yeah Baby.

That’s what we want.

Don be kickin’ butt and takin’ names already.

The Bolshevists are on the run.

[Thumper1960]

When business succeeds, and people are hired to fill positions and spend their wages on products and services that in turn hire more folks to meet the demand and pay wages to those folks....and.....

What's the downside????

[Hostage]

Dalio is a big big deal. He comes out to make public statements very rarely.

He predicted the financial collapse in detail soon before it happened. And he projected what would happen in its aftermath.

He makes public statements about once every 3 to 5 years.

He has cred, lots of cred.

[honurider]

Good read. Like the Galt reference and the like thinking minds in the posts.

[TomGuy]

So, the "you didn't build that" will soon be replaced with the "I did. I built that. And that. And that. And that. ..."

And he has already started!

[RegulatorCountry]

"It is increasingly obvious that we are about to experience a profound, president-led ideological shift that will have a big impact on both the US and the world"

Woohoo! Make it so.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I read somewhere that Trump was an Ayn Rand fan. So refreshing after 8 years of Wesley Mouch, James Taggart and crew.

[VRW Conspirator]

The business of America is business - Calvin Coolidge

[Renegade]

I read it AGAIN because of Obummer in office.

[Publius]

Rand ping.

[WayneLusvardi]

There is evidence coming out now in Forbes magazine (”Ayn Rand Ghost Does Not Haunt the Trump Administration”, Dec. 18, 2016) about whether Trump is a devotee of Ayn Rand. Trump, like all politicians, has spoken favorably of Rand and her books to win over potential voters. In an interview in USA Today, Kirsten Powers reports Trump as liking Rand’s book “The Fountainhead” and identifying with its central character Howard Roark. But that may mean that Trump read about as much of that book as he has the Bible, which he couldn’t name his favorite verse.

Also consider who the reporter is on this article. No balance.

Steven Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist in a speech presented to the Vatican in 2014, said there were two kinds of Capitalism he found disturbing: 1) state sponsored capitalism (e.g., Russia and China); and 2) “Ayn Rand or the Objectivist School of Libertarian Capitalism”, which aims to make people commodities (similar to Marxist thought). Bannon opts for what he calls “enlightened Capitalism”.

So while the Fountainhead imagery resonates with Trump the policy making is unlikely to do so. Trump is a real estate developer who has to deal with all powerful (and greedy) municipal governments who want to wheel and deal and shake down developers for all kinds of freebies (exactions, mitigations, conditions, user fees, campaign contributions) sometimes in return for tax abatements (redevelopment). Not hardly Ayn Randism.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Ayn Rand ought to be required reading for all college students.