Wow, this article has some very tenuous links between Atlas Shrugged and real life. I'm going to just pick on one: The appropriation of Rearden metal by the go

Wow, this article has some very tenuous links between Atlas Shrugged and real life. I'm going to just pick on one: The appropriation of Rearden metal by the government in Atlas Shrugged was compared to Hank Paulson's insistence that the banks (which the government would bail out) had to hand over a percentage of their future profits back to the government. Apparently, these situations are eerily similar because in both cases the government did it for the "public interest". Notwithstanding the fact that in Atlas Shrugged, Rearden actually invented something of value (which the govt appropriated), whereas in real life, the bankers fucked up their own balance sheets and were coming to the government cap in hand for help. As far as I'm aware, one is theft, the other is repaying a favour. The only thing eerily similar about these two situations is that they both have a guy named Hank involved.