The Rich Keep Getting Richer and the Poor Keep Getting ...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/busts-keep-getting-bigger-why/

I Know Who John Galt Is

John Galt is a fictional character.  Basing a moral philosophy on a work of fiction is daft.  Basing economic policy on a work of fiction is dangerous.  Thanks for the memories of Rand-influenced economic policy, Alan Greenspan.

Nobody Knows Anything and We Believe Them

Marcia Angell has an excellent series going in the New York Review of Books regarding the scant evidence that psychiatric medications offer anything but an "activated placebo effect" and why their use has grown so explosively.  

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/illusions-of-psychiatry/

This article is more profoundly depressing that depression.  I often marvel at the way in which allegedly erudite persons deride the religiously faithful when even the erudite cling to faith tenaciously.  Does it matter if the faith to which one clings is the opinion of medical experts or a sacred text if neither have any demonstrable indicia of validity?

Laissez Faire Is a Joke

Stated simply, the purpose of this blog is to demonstrate that libertarianism and free market economics tend neither to promote liberty nor economic freedom but rather function as tools to justify gross inequity and selfishness.  A good place to start considering the hypocrisy of libertarianism and free market economics is this Stephen Metcalf article in Slate.com:  http://www.slate.com/id/2297019/