Remembering the Real Ayn Rand

Last week Donald Luskin a chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics LLC and the co-author with Andrew Greta of "I Am John Galt" wrote in the WSJ Remembering the Real Ayn Rand.  What Luskin points out is a point that many people forget when they think about Rand and Atlas Shrugged that all not all business men are heroes. Luster notes "it's a misreading of "Atlas" to claim that it is simply an antigovernment tract or an uncritical celebration of big business. In fact, the real villain of "Atlas" is a big businessman, railroad CEO James Taggart, whose crony capitalism does more to bring down the economy than all of Mouch's regulations."  Today with crony capitalism all around us Rand's work continues to be relevant.