Ted Keer

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What should the government do about ailing financial institutions?

Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease

85%

Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent

Intervene massively—as it's doing

Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA!

Something else (specify)

Total votes: 54

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Real Name: Theodore Keer
Description: Manhattan resident, 1968-∞, raised Catholic in Philadelphia suburbs, since 1984 a self-identified objectivist. (Small "o," I differ with Rand over specifics in Ethics.) I'm proficient in or read many European & classical tongues, study linguistics, history, literature. B.A. Bio. & Phil. Rutgers. Favorites run from Epictetus, Beethoven & Shakespeare through Yeats, Patsy Kline & Tolkien to G'n'R, Python, Outkast and House M.D. Avatar is Einar Joachim Kjær, killed at the Second Battle of the Marne. Homo sum, nihil humani alienum puto.