I've agreed with a lot of the capitalist economics for years, and found Atlas Shrugged mostly agreeable with my views economically. I am a fiscal conservative educated as a Mechanical Engineer. I have had a life long desire to create, and find that while I am gainfully employed and caring for personal needs as my life demands, I desire for my sanity's sake to at least learn investing and business. I believe Galt's Gulch in novelistic principal is a unique and merit-worthy idea, and I hope this one becomes what I hope is much more than what I see other sites of any particular viewpoint slant being, which is a nonproductive echo chamber of conformance.

I do a lot of reading right now as this is what fits within my lifestyle constraints. Books that I'd recommend are: "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham, "Security Analysis" by Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd, "Rain Making" by Ford Harding, "Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making Money" by PT Barnum, and "Marketing Fundamentals for Engineers" by Stan Haavik.

Point to Ponder: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro are all considered revolutionaries, but notice that only three of these listed are known as producers. Look at their results, and the legacies they have created.