Um objectivista na SEC?

(à atenção do HFerreira)

Só pelo tom assustado da esquerda americana e pela oportunidade de ler expressões paranóicas como "the high priestess of unfettered capitalism", já é de saudar a nomeação de Christopher Cox para a Securities and Exchange Commission (sem prejuízo de o papel de agências como a SEC ser matéria que merece ampla discussão).

New vision for SEC

In Republican and business circles, William Donaldson has been viewed as a disappointing chairman who sided too often with the Democrats on the Securities and Exchange Commission. His designated successor is Christopher Cox, a conservative Republican congressman from California whose loyalties seem clear.

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Cox - a devoted student of Ayn Rand, the high priestess of unfettered capitalism - opposes taxes on dividends and capital gains.