I Am John Galt (42 page)

Index

AB32 (carbon emissions tax law)

Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Advanced Microsystems, Inc. (AMI)

Akston, Hugh

character description

Milton Friedman comparison

Alcorn, Al

Allen, Paul

Allison, John.
See also
Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T)

on BB&T corporate philosophy

on charity

enthusiasm for Rand literature

on honesty

on independent thinking

on integrity

John Galt comparison

on justice

move to academia

on pride

on productivity

and property rights

on reason

trader principle

Amanpour, Christiane

Amelio, Gil

Anderson, Martin

Anthem
(Rand)

Antitrust law

Apple Computer.
See also
Jobs, Steve

Apple I and Apple II

iMac

iPod introduction

iTunes

Lisa computer

Macintosh

Newton

stock price graph

Aristotle

ARM.
See
Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)

Asian flu

Atlas Shrugged

Hugh Akston (
see also
Akston, Hugh)

James Taggart (
see also
Taggart, James)

John Galt (
see also
Galt, John)

portrayal of heroes and villains in

reviews of

Robert Stadler (
see also
Stadler, Robert)

Wesley Mouch (
see also
Mouch, Wesley)

Bailouts

Bank of America

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

OneUnited Bank

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Ballmer, Steve

Bangs, Robert

Banking crisis of 2008.
See also
Mortgage credit bubble and crisis

events leading up to

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Bank of America

and Countrywide Financial

government bailout of

Barksdale, Jim

Bear Stearns

Bernanke, Ben

Berners-Lee, Tim

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Blair, Jayson

Boies, David

Braiterman, Andy

Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T).
See also
Allison, John

corporate purpose

employee training program

honesty (value #5)

independent thinking (value #3)

integrity (value #6)

justice (value #7)

leadership and corporate philosophy

price (value #8)

productivity (value #4)

reality (value #1)

reason (value #2)

self-esteem (value #9)

Southern National Bank merger

teamwork (value #10)

Branden, Barbara

Branden, Nathaniel

Brock, Rod

Buckley, William F.

Buffett, Warren

Burge, Frank

Burns, Arthur

Calame, Byron

California Proposition

Cameron, Henry

Campbell, Bill

Capitalism, morality and

Capitalism and Freedom
(Friedman)

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
(Rand)

Carmack, John

Chambers, Whittaker

Charity/philanthropy

Bill Gates

John Allison

Steve Jobs

T. J. Rodgers

“Chicago school”

Citigroup

Collective, The

Collectivism

Collins, Gail

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

Computer Center Corporation (C-Cubed)

Conrad, Kent

Cook, Scott

Corrigan, Wilf

Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)

Countrywide Financial.
See also
Mozilo, Angelo

automated underwriting system (CLUES)

board of directors

company beginnings

company meltdown

falsification of loan applications

lending policies

loan defaults

under Loeb leadership

relationship with Fannie Mae

SEC v. Angelo Mozilo

stock price history

subprime lending

2007 earnings conference call

VIP loan program (Friends of Angelo)

Covin, Geoff

Cypress Semiconductor.
See also
Rodgers, T. J.

charitable giving

company beginnings

core values

executive compensation

hiring practices

and SunPower

D'Anconia, Francisco

character description

T. J. Rodgers comparison

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Department of Justice

Digital Research

Discoveries
vs
. inventions

Disney

Dodd, Christopher

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Doerr, John

Donohue, Phil

Dowd, Maureen

Draft, abolition of

Drinan, Robert

Dudman, Jack

Dyson, Esther

Economics: An Introductory Analysis
(Samuelson)

Edwards, John

Eisenhower, Dwight

Ellison, Larry

Eminent domain.
See
Property rights

Enron

Evans, Kent

Evasion

Expanding American Homeownership Act of 2006 (H.R. 5121)

Fair-value accounting

Falcon, Armando

Fannie Mae.
See also
Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)

and Countrywide Financial

Daniel H. Mudd

government takeover of

Herb Moses and

John Allison on

subprime loans

2008 stock sell-off and collapse

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005 (H.R. 1461)

Federal Reserve.
See also
Greenspan, Alan; Mortgage credit bubble and crisis

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Fernandez, Bill

Florida presidential election results controversy

Fortune
magazine

Fountainhead, The
(Rand)

Henry Cameron

Howard Roark (
see also
Roark, Howard)

Frank, Barney

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

ethics inquiry

family and upbringing

first Congressional run

meeting with John Allison

personality and political background

personal life

role in mortgage credit bubble and crisis

on staff of Kevin White

as state representative

Wesley Mouch comparison

Freddie Mac.
See also
Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)

government takeover of

John Allison on

relationship with Countrywide Financial

2008 stock sell-off and collapse

Free market economics.
See also
Friedman, Milton

Free to Choose
(TV miniseries)

Friedman, Milton

and abolition of draft

and Alan Greenspan

beliefs and principles of

Capitalism and Freedom

and the Chicago school

on corporate social responsibility

early career

early life/education

economic theories of

Free to Choose
(TV miniseries)

on government spending

on greed

Hugh Akston comparison

influence of

on Nobel Prize

on role of government

“Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem”

views of,
vs
. Paul Samuelson

Why Government Is the Problem

Friedman, Rose

Galt, John

character description

John Allison comparison

Garment, Leonard

Gates, Bill.
See also
Microsoft

Altair 8800 project

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

early business ventures

entrepreneurial accomplishments

evolution of Microsoft

Harvard years

Henry Rearden comparison

introduction to computers

John Allison on

Lakeside Programmers Group

media persecution of

Microsoft antitrust allegations and trial

“An Open Letter to Hobbyists”

philanthropy

upbringing/early life

Gates, William (father)

Gates Commission

General Electric Credit

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The
(Keynes)

Ginnie Mae.
See also
Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)

Gold standard

Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).
See also
Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac

creation of

mortgage credit bubble and crisis

reform legislation for

Great Depression

economic theory on

Friedman on

Great Unraveling, The
(Krugman)

Greenspan, Alan

on antitrust statutes

as CEA chair

early political involvement

events leading up to global financial crisis

as Federal Reserve chair

friendship with Ayn Rand

and Gates Commission

“irrational exuberance” speech

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) crisis

Objectivist Newsletter
contributions

and Richard Nixon

Robert Stadler comparison

“stealth gold standard”

Harrington, Michael

Heckler, Peggy

Henson, Christopher

Hewlett, Bill

Holt, Rod

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas

Homebrew Club

Honesty

Housing and Community Development Act

H.R. 1461

H.R. 5121

IBM

Independent thinking

Individualism

IndyMac Bank

Integrity

Intel

Intuit

Inventions
vs
. discoveries

iPod

Jackson, Alphonso

Jackson, Jesse

Jackson, Thomas Penfield

Jobs, Paul and Clara

Jobs, Steve.
See also
Apple Computer

at Atari

beginnings of Apple Computer

early life

Howard Roark comparison

iMac

iPod introduction

Lisa computer

Macintosh

and music industry/iTunes

and NeXTSTEP

persistence/determination of

and Pixar/Disney

at Reed College

return to Apple

on success

Johnson, James “Jim”

Jones, Clinton, III

Jones, Homer

Jones, Richard

JPMorgan Chase

Justice

Katzenberg, Jeffrey

Kelo v. City of New London

Kemp, Jack

Kessler, Alan

Keynes, John Maynard

Alan Greenspan and

on gold standard

Paul Krugman and

theories on economic policy

Kildall, Gary

King, Kelly

Krugman, Paul

on Alan Greenspan

conflicts with Donald Luskin

economic forecasting

Ellsworth Toohey comparison

and Enron

lifestyle of

and Mahathir Mohamad

Krugman Truth Squad (KTS)

Kuznets, Simon

Lakeside Programmers Group

Land, Edwin

Lasseter, John

Lehman Brothers

Lenz, Sydney

Lewis, Kenneth

LifeBoat Associates

Loan underwriting standards

Loeb, David

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)

Lucas, George

Luskin, Donald, conflicts with Paul Krugman

Lydon, Christopher

MacGregor, Scott

Mahathir Mohamad

Mankiw, Gregory

Markkula, Mark

McMurray, John

Merrill Lynch

Metcalfe, Bob

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)

Microsoft.
See also
Gates, Bill

antitrust suit against

competitor complaints about

DOS purchase

evolution of

FTC investigation of

and industry competition

Netscape Communications complaint

products

stock price history

work ethic at

Mitchell, Joan

Monetary History of the United States
(Friedman and Schwartz)

Morgenson, Gretchen

Mortgage-backed securities (MBSs)

Mortgage credit bubble and crisis.
See also
Countrywide Financial; Fannie Mae; Subprime loans

absence of integrity

Angelo Mozilo and

Barney Frank and

and denial of reality

and failure of independent thinking

graph of home prices
vs
. mortgage credit

John Allison on

and mathematical modeling

repairing damage from

Mortgage products

Moses, Herb

Mouch, Wesley

Barney Frank comparison

character description

Mozilo, Angelo.
See also
Countrywide Financial

compensation

and evolution of refinancing

fraud and insider trading charges

Friends of Angelo/VIP loans

and growth of Countrywide

James Taggart comparison

personal approval of loans

rags-to-riches background

relationship with Jim Johnson

SEC charges against

2007 Countrywide earnings conference call

Mudd, Daniel H.

Murray, Mike

Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI)

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

National Resources Committee (NRC)

National Review Online

Netscape Communications

New Deal policies

Newsweek

New York Times

on Apple Computer