Hacker News Books

    * Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
    * Revolution OS (2001)
    * Code Rush (2000)
    * The KGB, the Computer and Me (1990)
    * Infinity (1996)
    * Antitrust (2001) -- mildly entertaining and fun

  The Internship (2013)

Good and funny movie, and realistic (if you don't mind the Google logo everywhere)

  Antitrust (2001, also known as "Startup")

Good movie that shows some C, Java and HTML code and also explains "open source". Miguel de Icaza helped them, so you see GNU/Linux desktops and GNOME shell and bash.

However, based on Rand's writings on ethics and capitalism it would be immoral to accept the Fed chairmanship unless you had an explicit charter to shut it down which was obviously not the case for Greenspam. Rand would have denounced Greenspam in no uncertain terms but she was dead.

Accepting the Fed position was an explicit repudiation of Rand's philosophy and views on capitalism regardless of Greenspam's prior association with Rand. It was also an implicit repudiation of the articles (especially the article on gold) that he wrote in Rand's anthology "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" in which Greenspam authored three articles; "Antitrust", "Gold and Economic Freedom", and "The Assault on Integrity". He is no more a "randian" than my mom, though he is dotty and old.

Greenspam would have been wise to read and heed an article written also in Rand's book on capitalism; "The Anatomy of Compromise" in which she explains the principle of Sanction. Rand wrote;

> In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.

Greenspan chose to collaborate with dishonest bankers, currency cranks (in the Fed) and bureaucrats (in the bank regulators) who wanted make it possible to "somehow" inflate the currency, give loans to the unqualified and to back quasi-private debt (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) with govt guarantees all without consequences. He thus set the stage for the 2008 mortgage banking crisis.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/