By Doug Casey in The Casey Report:

I've always been a huge fan of Ayn Rand and feel privileged to have met her just a few months before her death in 1982. Her short book of essays, The Virtue of Selfishness, is probably the most important single book I've ever read (followed by the Tannehills' Market for Liberty). The only nit I'd pick with her is that she actually didn't go far enough in some ways...

She was spot-on, however, in predicting what was going to happen in the U.S.

You owe it to yourself to read Atlas Shrugged if you haven't already done so.

"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

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