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

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"Medicalizamos la moralidad". "Medicalizamos el crimen". Parece que incluso medicalizamos los crímenes de guerra y el genocidio... Pero habiendo observado la medicalización de lo que solía llamarse "mal" o "perverso", la psiquiatría no sabe cómo responder.

19 de abril de 2022

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

29 de septiembre de 2021

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¿Quién podría imaginar ahora una nación moderna sin contenedores de reciclaje, plantas de reciclaje y envases de yogur fabricados con materiales reciclados?

3 de diciembre de 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

1 de julio de 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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Para Ayn Rand, el argumento era la bandera distintiva del ser humano, la bandera de la razón y la persuasión. Donde los brutos fuerzan, los seres humanos argumentan, una

30 de mayo de 2017

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Ayn Rand profundizó en algunas de las ideas más fundamentales del Objetivismo -y en sus implicaciones personales más conmovedoras- en el ensayo que dedicó a.

2 de mayo de 2017

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Hubo un tiempo, cuando los nuevos ensayos de Ayn Rand salían mensualmente y, las más de las veces, mencionaban o recomendaban con entusiasmo a algún escritor

22 de abril de 2017

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Esta semana, las fuerzas de la oposición en Venezuela siguen en la calle, forcejeando con las fuerzas gubernamentales, para protestar por el bandazo de..

10 de abril de 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...

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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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Lo que yo llamo la "Élite No Nuestro Presidente" (NOPE) cree que una América espantosamente ignorante, intolerante y claramente inferior -no la...

16 de febrero de 2017

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Hoy me he pasado por la consulta de mi oftalmólogo. Aunque mis gafas estaban rotas, lo primero que le pregunté a la recepcionista fue...

19 de mayo de 2016

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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

Jul 25, 2012

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En homenaje al filósofo que dio a la razón su herramienta fundamental, Ayn Rand bautizó las tres secciones de Atlas Shrugged con los axiomas de Aristóteles

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El 17 de abril, el Presidente Barack Obama se dirigió a los estadounidenses para hablarles del aumento de los precios de la gasolina, que ya supera los 5 dólares el galón en algunas partes del 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...

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 de diciembre de 2011

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In Barcelona's summer night..

28 de julio de 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 de marzo de 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 de marzo de 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

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

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