• Hong Kong’s Basement-Gate Points to Shaky Future 
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Capitalism  |Syndicated  | The way the laissez-faire crowd gushes over Hong Kong has always been a bit surreal. It’s routinely ranked the freest economy anywhere thanks to its low taxes, unrestricted entry of foreign capital and rule of law. The Ayn Rand set has tended to ignore some of Hong Kong’s other qualities, including a pegged currency, a state-backed Disney theme park, an oligarch economy ruled over by a handful of billionaires like Li and a leader anointed by officials in Beijing.      View blog reactions

• Malcolm Gladwell Test Has Japan Turning Chinese 
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Capitalism  |Syndicated  | No, this column isn’t advocating a sudden Japanese embrace of the ideologies of Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan. Yet Japan has gotten as far it can with financial socialism.      View blog reactions

• • Ayn Rand Fans See Freest Economy Turn Chinese 
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Capitalism  | The Ayn Rand set love Hong Kong for its financial philosophy of low taxes, keeping expenditures within the limits of revenues and giving markets room to roam.      View blog reactions

• Bernanke goes from Helicopter Ben to Beijing Ben 
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Capitalism  | [Alan] Greenspan, a disciple of philosopher Ayn Rand, talked a good game of letting free markets work their magic. And yet without fail, he was there to rescue markets and investors with lower rates when things got dicey.      View blog reactions

• Greenspan bubble theory draws 4.8 million shrugs 
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Capitalism  | Being steeped in a history of Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan meant Greenspan probably never saw a government regulation he didn’t want to scrap.      View blog reactions

• Greenspan, Macfarlane exposure gap says it all 
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Capitalism  | A disciple of Ayn Rand's laissez- faire beliefs, Greenspan [...] took a hands-off approach to warnings about aggressive subprime lenders suckering customers into mortgages they couldn't afford.      View blog reactions

• •Less Than Zero tops BOJ’s summer reading list 
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Suggested reading for Bank of Japan officials.
Atlas Shrugged. Why an Ayn Rand classic? Because [BOJ Governor Toshihiko ] Fukui's path to being remembered as a great central banker like Alan Greenspan may be smoother if he reads the books written by the former Federal Reserve chairman's mentor.      View blog reactions