Who today sets the world price of gold? It is not the United States and not Europe. The concept of the marginal purchaser becomes germane, here. It is a bit complicated, but it means the party who at a given time, at a given price, is always a buyer, but at a higher price is not. Some will want to debate that definition, but put simply we are talking about the prime, dominant buyer. And that, today, is the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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The most horrendous threats to humanity have simply been too monstrously evil to be believed—at first.

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我們「醫學化道德」。我們“將犯罪醫學化”。似乎我們甚至將戰爭罪和種族滅絕醫學化......但是，在觀察到過去被稱為“邪惡”或“邪惡”的東西被醫學化之後，精神病學不知道如何回應。

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When is a novel in the Romantic tradition “popular” and when is it “literary”?

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誰能想像，現在，一個沒有回收箱、回收廠和用回收材料製成的優酪乳容器的現代國家。

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I wonder how many of you have waited, over the decades—with growing scorn for our academic..

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Walter Donway’s romantic thriller O Human Child is an entertaining read with an end of summer theme. Jan and Victoria DeVries began what the

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As Democratic presidential candidates debate their competing promises to voters, without the slightest reference to the concept of property

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On Thursday, June 19, the subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee met to shape recommendations on payment of

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The fearful blaze ravaging Notre Dame Cathedral came under initial control, this evening. Parisians then gathered on Cité Island in the Sein

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It has taken more than two decades for Venezuela, once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, with a long tradition of independence and dem

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對於安·蘭德來說，論點是獨特的人類旗幟，理性和說服力的旗幟。在蠻力，人類爭論的地方，一個

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安·蘭德（Ayn Rand）在她致力於的文章中深入研究了客觀主義的一些最基本的思想——以及它們最尖銳的個人含義。

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曾經有一段時間，安·蘭德（Ayn Rand）的新文章每月出版一次，並且經常提到或熱情地推薦一些作家。

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本周，委內瑞拉的反對派力量仍在街頭，與政府軍鬥爭，抗議上周的蹣跚。

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I haven’t made up my mind about the debates regarding “nationalism,” conducted mostly in terms of epithets and denials, that have poisoned..

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Ayn Rand permitted herself to write of Romanticism with a terrible yearning redeemed only by her fighting spirit. In the introduction to...

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Reading about the Age of Faith, Age of Enlightenment, Age of Science—all eras in the history of the West—did you ever ask: what is our age..

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For partisans on both sides of the nomination (and hard-fought confirmation) of Betsy DeVos, 59, of Michigan, as secretary of education...

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I will celebrate Washington’s Birthday. That is still the official federal holiday—“President’s Day” and “Washington’s and Lincoln’s Day”..

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我所謂的“不是我們的總統精英”（NOPE）認為，一個可怕的無知，偏執和明顯劣等的美國 - 不是......

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今天，我去了我的眼科醫生辦公室。雖然我的眼鏡壞了，但我問接待員的第一件事是......

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Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....

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When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market

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安·蘭德（Ayn Rand）向賦予理性基礎工具的哲學家致敬，並以亞里士多德的公理命名了《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》的三個部分。

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4月17日，美國總統巴拉克•奧巴馬（Barrack Obama）向美國人發表講話，談到汽油價格上漲，目前美國部分地區汽油價格超過每加侖5.00美元。

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On March 8, the front page of the Wall Street Journal carried a weird story. It was weird because it involved what is arguably America’s...

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At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

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August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....

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What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...

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Among the virtues we promote at The New Individualist are the courage, independence, integrity, and vision of creative producers in all walk

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This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals

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A half-century ago, when the American medical care system was largely free and voluntary, and people regularly called it “the world’s finest

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I've reread Thorton Wilder's The Ides of March many times, always with the equivalent of a slight mental frown: Why do I like this book so

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