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no_hypocrisy

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2. One can't discount the strong influence of Ayn Rand on Greenspan.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2026, 08:47 AM

Yesterday

She operated a cult where she presided over her combination of fascism and an aberration of capitalism. Greenspan was in the cult and bought the entire package. Her glorification of ruthless ambition and the pursuit of wealth laid the ideological groundwork for the modern "culture of greed" and neoliberal capitalism.

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)
https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Girl-American-Critical-Histories/dp/0520294777