Amity Shlaes welcomes all Forgotten Man friends/fans. I will post news and info from time to time on this site!
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Amity Shlaes And here's a markets' column I wrote on the work of the always creative Harvey Rosen...Headline is: "Blame Barney Frank if a Swimming Pool Isn't In Your Future..."
www.bloomberg.com
Home buyers are infants. They can’t think ahead and don’t try to.
Amity Shlaes Fountain Street Church and Knox College.....The Forgotten Man heads to the Midwest... It will be very exciting to speak at Fountain St Church and also in Galesburg, Illinois, at Knox College....Any New Deal related events at either place would enrich my talks....so I'm studying up....
Amity Shlaes J.N. Raven -- I agree with you and the gold price seems to have supported your argument...
Amity Shlaes For a while, this page was hard to find. It is a fans' page! Please do use it. I'd like to know what fans think about the gold price and prospects for inflation. thank you!
Amity Shlaes Here is my report for Bloomberg...
www.bloomberg.com
The capitalist U.S. is nationalizing its biggest automaker, even as it pretends not to do so. Europe, for its part, is moving right.
Amity Shlaes Back to Berlin once more. I was there speaking at the American Academy in Berlin. Visited the Berliner Dom with Stefan Theil, the most analytic foreign correspondent in Europe.
www.americanacademy.de
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Amity Shlaes We're Not yet All Randians Now, but Ayn sure makes more sense than she used to. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute supplied some astounding data on sales of Atlas Shrugged for an article I wrote in the Bloomberg.
www.bloomberg.com
Imagine a novel of more than a thousand pages, published half a century ago. The author doesn’t have a talk-radio show and has been dead for 27 years.
Amity Shlaes A former Newsday editor, James Toedtman, pointed out there was a second news story on the suicide of William Troeller, beyond the one from the NYTimes that was the source for TFM. That second story, (Washington Post of Nov 11, 1937) carried details the NY
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Off to Milwaukee to stay at the Pfister....at least momentarily....
Have a new column on PBGC....in the Bloomberg at cite below....thinking about comparing banks in Texas and Japan with a brilliant coauthor....
please send your insights!
Getting obsessed with communism again...studying China....
www.bloomberg.com
Haste is the quality that is characterizing the investigation of Charles E.F. Millard, who headed the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. until the change in presidential administrations in January.
Amity Shlaes National Archives this week...
news.prnewswire.com
WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In May, the National Archives celebrates its new exhibition "BIG! Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives," with free public programs including film screenings, author lectures, and a music discussion. ...
Amity Shlaes Sapienza/Zingales, still on the brain....
Amity Shlaes Michele Bachmann prompted a column
www.bloomberg.com
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- So Michele Bachmann’s version of history is “from another planet.” Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is “chronically stupid.” And Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-ranking Republican in the House, is “busy lying constantly.”
Amity Shlaes Forthcoming Forbes piece on "The Man Who Talked Back"; Bloomberg article on trust....Sapienza and Zingales still the ones to watch...
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Minnesota....
Colorado Springs...This week speeches in Colorado Springs and Minnesota and a visit to Providence Academy, an extremely impressive young Catholic school. Next time in Colorado Springs hope to make it to the Air Force Academy....
www.providenceacademy.org
A new private, coeducational, pre-K through 12 Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Amity Shlaes Dear Friends...Did a Politico chat with reader yesterday afternoon after Politico wrote on TFM....looking to update Sapienza/Zingales which is on Bloomberg....some people HATED this column...had lunch with one of the great economic columnists, Ken Fisher of Forbes, yesterday...lots to learn there....
www.politico.com
Republicans tear through pages like soccer moms before book club. Read a live chat with the author.
