Why We Should Still Believe in the WTO
People love to trash the WTO. It’s too slow. It’s broken. Nothing ever gets done. You hear it all the time.
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Atlas Shrugged Part I, Chapter 9: The Sacred and the Profane (Part 1) - Dagny and Hank's New Dynamic
Chapter 9 opens with the morning after. And I mean that literally. Dagny wakes up in an unfamiliar room, strips of sunlight on her skin from the Venetian blinds, a bruise on her arm. Hank Rearden is beside her. The John Galt Line has been built, the bridge held, the world watched, and these two people ended up in bed together somewhere along the return trip from Wyatt Junction.
Built to Sell Chapter 13: What Makes a Company Actually Sellable
Chapter 13 is called “A Sellable Company” and it’s the moment everything Alex has been working toward starts to become real. Not finished. Not done. But real. There’s a number on paper. Someone wants to buy his business. And now the hard part begins all over again.
Crack-Up Capitalism Conclusion: When Zones Take Over the World
The conclusion of Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian (ISBN: 9781250753908) is called “Be Water.” And it pulls together everything the book has been building toward. Zones are not some fringe experiment anymore. They are the default political form of twenty-first-century capitalism.
Why Multilateralism Still Matters for Small Countries
If you’re a small country, what do you do when bigger countries can just push you around? You team up. You play smart. You make yourself useful. That’s basically the entire playbook that Burhan Gafoor lays out in Chapter 12.
Atlas Shrugged Part I, Chapter 8: The John Galt Line - The Train Ride That Changes Everything
This is the chapter. If you’re reading Atlas Shrugged and wondering when the payoff comes, this is it. Chapter 8 is the triumphant heart of Part I, and Rand wrote it like she had been holding her breath for seven chapters and finally let it out.
Built to Sell Chapter 12: The One Question That Changes Everything
Chapter 12 is called “The Question” and it’s one of the shortest chapters in the book. But it carries maybe the most important lesson for anyone trying to sell a business. You can have perfect financials, a great product, a solid team. And then one simple question at dinner can kill the whole deal.
Crack-Up Capitalism Chapter 11: A Cloud Country in the Metaverse
Remember Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash”? People strap on goggles and escape their lousy gig jobs into a virtual world called the Metaverse. They buy property, build things, live second lives. One character puts it bluntly: “When you live in a shithole, there’s always the Metaverse.”
Who Really Owns the United Nations?
Here is a question most people never think about. The United Nations belongs to all countries equally, right? One country, one vote. That is the theory. But in practice, the countries that pay the most money get to call the shots. And they have gotten very good at making sure it stays that way.
Atlas Shrugged Part I, Chapter 7: The Exploiters and the Exploited (Part 3) - Who Really Exploits Whom?
This is Part 3, the final stretch of Chapter 7. And it’s one of those sections that packs about five emotional gut punches into forty pages. Dagny goes all in on the John Galt Line, Francisco breaks her heart (again), Rearden gets hit with the worst news of his life, and somehow the chapter ends on a note that actually feels like hope. Let’s get into it.