• • Matt Taibbi: Wall Street Executives Believe ‘Everybody Else Is A Parasite’ 
Bonnie Kavoussi, Huffington Post Paul Ryan  |Video  | Wall Street executives are under the impression that it’s their world and everyone else is just living off them, according to Matt Taibbi. [....] Taibbi said that “they’ve adopted this sort of Randian point of view” -- that is, the viewpoint of the late libertarian author Ayn Rand. Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said in 2005 that Rand’s writings, popular among many conservatives, were “required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.”   Published: 2012-10-22