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).

Apr 29, 2024

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The most horrendous threats to humanity have simply been too monstrously evil to be believed—at first.

Apr 4, 2023

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We “medicalize morality.” We “medicalize crime.” It seems we even medicalize war crimes and genocide… But having observed the medicalizing of what used to be called “evil,” or “wicked,” psychiatry does not know how to respond.

Apr 19, 2022

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

29 septembre 2021

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Qui pourrait imaginer, aujourd'hui, une nation moderne sans poubelles de recyclage, sans usines de recyclage et sans pots de yaourt fabriqués à partir de matériaux recyclés ?

3 décembre 2019

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

Oct 3, 2019

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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

Sep 9, 2019

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

Jul 10, 2019

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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

1er juillet 2019

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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

Apr 16, 2019

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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

Mar 3, 2019

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Pour Ayn Rand, l'argumentation est l'étendard distinctif de l'homme, l'étendard de la raison et de la persuasion. Là où les brutes forcent, les êtres humains argumentent.

30 mai 2017

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Ayn Rand a approfondi certaines des idées les plus fondamentales de l'objectivisme - et leurs implications personnelles les plus poignantes - dans l'essai qu'elle a consacré à...

2 mai 2017

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Il fut un temps où les nouveaux essais d'Ayn Rand paraissaient tous les mois et, le plus souvent, mentionnaient ou recommandaient avec enthousiasme quelque écrivain

22 avril 2017

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Cette semaine, les forces d'opposition du Venezuela sont toujours dans les rues, aux prises avec les forces gouvernementales, pour protester contre l'embardée de la semaine dernière ...

10 avril 2017

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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..

Mar 28, 2017

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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...

Mar 12, 2017

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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..

Mar 1, 2017

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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...

Feb 23, 2017

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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”..

Feb 20, 2017

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Ce que j'appelle l'élite "Not Our President Elite" (NOPE) croit qu'une Amérique effroyablement ignorante, bigote et nettement inférieure - pas la...

16 février 2017

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Aujourd'hui, je suis passé au cabinet de mon ophtalmologue. Bien que mes lunettes soient cassées, la première chose que j'ai demandée à la réceptionniste était...

19 mai 2016

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

Sep 21, 2012

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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

Jul 25, 2012

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Saluant le philosophe qui a donné à la raison son outil fondamental, Ayn Rand a nommé les trois sections d'Atlas Shrugged d'après les axiomes d'Aristote

7 mai 2012

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Le 17 avril, le président Barrack Obama s'est adressé aux Américains au sujet de la hausse des prix de l'essence, qui dépassent désormais les 5 dollars le gallon dans certaines régions du pays.

25 avril 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...

Mar 9, 2012

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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

21 décembre 2011

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In Barcelona's summer night..

28 juillet 2011

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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.".....

Apr 29, 2011

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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...

29 mars 2011

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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

28 mars 2011

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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

Aug 31, 2010

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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

Aug 10, 2009

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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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Description: Matthew Josephson’s 1934 best-seller, The Robber Barons, with its damning portraits of great industrialists and Marxist analysi

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