• • Gold And Silver - Ayn Rand, Sir Walter Scott, and Nearing “Crunch Time”
Michael Noonan, Inside Futures Alan Greenspan |Atlas Shrugged |Capitalism |Personal life | "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion-when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors-when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you-when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot"
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
Leave it to a foreigner, and a woman, to describe the future course of the United States in a single, cogent paragraph.