Yesterday…Yahoo!: “unexpected jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits”
Today…LA Times: The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell…At the same time, however, employers cut 20,000 jobs, more than the 5,000 economists expected…
From 50 years go…Atlas Shrugged [paper back page 1063] as spoken by John Galt.
“Only when men discovered that nature was a firm, predictable absolute [...]

I was listening to Atlas Shrugged (audio book) yesterday when I had an unexpected and profound response.  Maybe is was the timing, after a long commute, a long work day and the night of the State of the Union.  But an element of the first conversation between Dagney Taggart and the newsstand owner caused me to physically tighten my [...]