Archive for November, 2009

Sneaky banks need to be set straight

There is also some noise that a new protection agency could stifle innovation. But is an over-the-limit fee really an innovation, or just a cheap trick designed to fool customers into believing a product costs one price when the majority of customers actually pay far more?

via Marketplace From American Public Media.

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Ayn Rand’s Conservative Call Echoes Today

But Rand, who preached the notion of absolute personal freedom and individualism, was a study in contradictions.Among her acolytes, she did not tolerate dissent.”What she would tell you, basically, is that she was right and you were not thinking properly if you did not agree with her,” Heller says.Rand’s longtime lover and student Nathaniel Branden circulated a list of rules for her followers to absorb. One read: “Ayn Rand, by virtue of her philosophical genius, is the supreme arbiter in any issue pertaining to what is rational or moral.”

via NPR.

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