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With capitalists coming to Washington to straighten out our bloated and unaccountable government via DOGE, the left is up in ...

The rand went through R19 to the dollar at midnight on Monday, before settling somewhat at the top end of the R18 to the dollar range. The local currency regained ground and was pegged at R18.74 ...

Carter was no stranger to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” or Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” He told Congress in 1979 ... An Insider’s Account,” available from Simmons-Boardman Books at ...

For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. President Donald Trump said the US would stop sending aid to South Africa over its land expropriation policies, sparking a selloff in the ...

South Africa’s rand pushed to around R19.00 to the dollar on Monday (3 February) after US President Donald Trump took aim at the country over its controversial land laws—pushing it even ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand, stocks and government bonds slumped on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would suspend aid to the country. Trump said ...

US President Donald Trump said America would stop sending aid to South Africa over its land expropriation policies, sparking a selloff in the rand. “The United States won’t stand for it, we will act,” ...

Today marks the birthdate of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, best known to the world as Ayn Rand ... magnum opus “Atlas Shrugged” was published in 1957. The more than 1,000-page book tells ...