. >> our next author is jon jeter, flat broke in a free-market. i don't know if this book is as famous as kids yet but it certainly deserves to be. it's just a remarkable read. i have never come as close to missing and l. stop reading a book as i did last night. there aren't many books, public policy books in the world that can take you from a hot romance, a whole chapter on this to the salmon interest in chile. it makes sense as you are reading along. and there aren't many books in this country that take a swipe at our own local congressman bobby rush and have a good word to say about hugo chavez when the author works for an establishment newspaper like the washington post. so there's a lot that he has to say. there are wonderful lines in this book. i wish i could read some of them but i think he will force. this is a jon jeter, flat broke in the free-market. >> thank you. [applause] >> first of all let me say what a tough act you are to follow. man, i want to pick that up as soon as i leave here. let me say one other thing, which is i am no long

coming up next, authors kim bobo and jon jeter talk about workers and the economy. >> we are heading over right now to the in iran institute which is always set up here and for some reason we're going to find out why and talk with jeff of here. what is your name and position. >> i'm archivist at the ayn rand institute. >> why is it that ayn rand always seems to bump up in sales when there's a lack of a crisis of blacks. >> the sales of "atlas shrugged", up and that is directly result of the story and the ideas in the book. this is a book about the not too distant future when of the creative people of all stripes come all talents and all liability is the side to go on strike against a world that does not appreciate their value in their contributions and a world very much like the one we are currently facing economically. >> what do you think of the current response of public policy response to the abdomen situation we're facing? >> total disaster. the whole premise behind the response is that the free market is in the essential problem and it is quite the contrary, it is then on free