<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/47ffe010-b3cc-4d0c-b0fd-10eefd157a08/D984E0CE-00C0-482F-B8F0-16EE0A96BABC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Greenspan&oldid=177867916" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Greenspan&oldid=177867916" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Greenspan&oldid=177867916">During the 1950s, <LAYER id="google-toolbar-hilite-51">Greenspan</LAYER> was one of the members of Ayn Rand's inner circle, <A title="The Ayn Rand Collective" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ayn_Rand_Collective">the Ayn Rand Collective</A>, who read <A title="Atlas Shrugged" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</A> while it was being written. Although <LAYER id="google-toolbar-hilite-52">Greenspan</LAYER> continues to advocate <A title="Laissez-faire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire">laissez-faire</A> capitalism,<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-8"><A title="" href="#_note-8">[11]</A></SUP> some Objectivists find his support for a gold standard somewhat ironic given the Federal Reserve's role in America's <A title="Fiat money" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money">fiat money</A> system and endogenous <A title="Inflation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation">inflation</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D984E0CE-00C0-482F-B8F0-16EE0A96BABC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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