• • • Thomas Frank Talks With Truthout on How Wall Street Doubled Down on Trashing America’s Economy 
Mark Karlin, Truthout Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Individualism  | [Frank:] [....] [W]hat is really spectacular is how this alarming historical episode got processed through the right's upside-down machine and came out as the story of how power-hungry leftists tried to "transform America" by force during a crisis: Rather than Hank Paulson and Co. bailing out their friends, it was Big Government trying to get its fingers around the throat of free enterprise. This was the moment, you will recall, when sales of "Atlas Shrugged" really spiked, and the great fear of a crazed government reacting to hard times by grabbing economic power really got going.   Published: 2012-02-17