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		<title>Newsweek: Ayn Rand caused America&#8217;s Crisis?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barret Sheridan (Newsweek) &#124; It&#8217;s not easy being Alan Greenspan these days. As the former Federal Reserve chairman, he urged government regulators to take a light touch while banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers buried themselves-and the economy more generally-under a mountain of debt. Now that his reputation is plummeting faster than the stock [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barret Sheridan (Newsweek) | It&#8217;s not easy being Alan Greenspan these days. As the former Federal Reserve chairman, he urged government regulators to take a light touch while banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers buried themselves-and the economy more generally-under a mountain of debt. Now that his reputation is plummeting faster than the stock market, he&#8217;s been forced to admit a &#8220;flaw&#8221; in his hands-off ideology.</p>
<p>Of course, things look entirely different to members of &#8220;free-market advocacy groups,&#8221; as they like to be called. One such group is the Ayn Rand Institute, named after the matriarch of the movement, whose antigovernment and anti-regulation views are embodied in her best-selling novels &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; and &#8220;The Fountainhead.&#8221; Indeed, Greenspan himself was a friend of Rand&#8217;s, and a devotee of her extreme free-market philosophy&#8230;[<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/173514/output/print" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>]</p>



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