Who today sets the world price of gold? It is not the United States and not Europe. The concept of the marginal purchaser becomes germane, here. It is a bit complicated, but it means the party who at a given time, at a given price, is always a buyer, but at a higher price is not. Some will want to debate that definition, but put simply we are talking about the prime, dominant buyer. And that, today, is the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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When is a novel in the Romantic tradition “popular” and when is it “literary”?

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I wonder how many of you have waited, over the decades—with growing scorn for our academic..

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Walter Donway’s romantic thriller O Human Child is an entertaining read with an end of summer theme. Jan and Victoria DeVries began what the

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As Democratic presidential candidates debate their competing promises to voters, without the slightest reference to the concept of property

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On Thursday, June 19, the subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee met to shape recommendations on payment of

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The fearful blaze ravaging Notre Dame Cathedral came under initial control, this evening. Parisians then gathered on Cité Island in the Sein

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It has taken more than two decades for Venezuela, once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, with a long tradition of independence and dem

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Para Ayn Rand, um argumento era a distinta bandeira humana, a bandeira da razão e da persuasão. Onde os brutos forçam, os seres humanos argumentam, uma

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Ayn Rand mergulhou em algumas das ideias mais fundamentais do Objectivismo - e nas suas implicações pessoais mais pungentes - no ensaio a que se dedicou.

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Houve uma época, em que os novos ensaios de Ayn Rand saíam mensalmente e, tantas vezes quanto não, mencionavam ou recomendavam entusiasticamente algum escritor

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Esta semana, as forças da oposição na Venezuela ainda estão nas ruas, lutando com as forças governamentais, para protestar contra o abandono da semana passada...

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I haven’t made up my mind about the debates regarding “nationalism,” conducted mostly in terms of epithets and denials, that have poisoned..

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Ayn Rand permitted herself to write of Romanticism with a terrible yearning redeemed only by her fighting spirit. In the introduction to...

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Reading about the Age of Faith, Age of Enlightenment, Age of Science—all eras in the history of the West—did you ever ask: what is our age..

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For partisans on both sides of the nomination (and hard-fought confirmation) of Betsy DeVos, 59, of Michigan, as secretary of education...

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I will celebrate Washington’s Birthday. That is still the official federal holiday—“President’s Day” and “Washington’s and Lincoln’s Day”..

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O que eu chamo de "Not Our President Elite" (NOPE) acredita que uma Americana assustadoramente ignorante, fanática e distintamente inferior...

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Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....

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When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market

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Saudando o filósofo que deu razão à sua ferramenta fundacional, Ayn Rand deu o nome às três secções do Atlas Encolhido, em homenagem aos axiomas de Aristóteles

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A 17 de Abril, o Presidente Barrack Obama falou aos americanos sobre o aumento dos preços da gasolina, agora acima dos $5,00 por galão em partes do país.

25 de Abril de 2012

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On March 8, the front page of the Wall Street Journal carried a weird story. It was weird because it involved what is arguably America’s...

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At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

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August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....

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What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...

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Among the virtues we promote at The New Individualist are the courage, independence, integrity, and vision of creative producers in all walk

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This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals

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A half-century ago, when the American medical care system was largely free and voluntary, and people regularly called it “the world’s finest

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I've reread Thorton Wilder's The Ides of March many times, always with the equivalent of a slight mental frown: Why do I like this book so

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