[PW] Re: ?Atlas Shrugged quotation

[Carole Leita]

You can search inside the book at Amazon.com.

Carole


On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Williams, Lesley A. wrote:

> We have a patron who is looking for a passage in Ayn Rand's _Atlas  
> Shrugged_ that deals with banking. The patron says it describes how  
> banks lend money to each other overnight because they are required  
> to maintain a certain amount of ready cash in house. I'm not  
> familiar with the book, but I skimmed it while reading the chapter  
> summaries from Sparknotes.com. Didn't find it, although I saw some  
> passages in which the banker character, Midas Mulligan, complains  
> about being forced to make a loan to an incompetent businessman  
> named Hunsacker.
>
> I also looked at the website for the Objectivist Center and Google  
> BookSearch, but to no avail. Any ideas?
>
> Lesley Williams
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