In Atlas Shrugged, she presented a world on the brink of full-on economic collapse as a result of increasing governmental controls and favors, while the politicians and the people kept blaming the problem on the supposed "free market" and ultra-rich industrialists.

While there are many people who suggest that the current recession is the result of the free market, Rand's supporters (of which I am), suggest that the recession is the result of governmental controls and intervention in the economy, and that our form of government hasn't gotten even remotely close to Laissez Faire, at least not for over a century.

The short and skinny is that many see the events of Atlas Shrugged playing out in real life.

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