Some of that article is very sensible and correct, but much is hypocritical doublethink:
Ms. Rand warned, "Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution." And I agree. But she did not imagine executives would loot their shareholders, cause an economic crisis and then beg for government help.
Errr, yes she did. That's why she warned against helping business. Taking Rand's philosophy to extremes the banks would have been allowed to fail, that distinctly didn't happen.

A very large number of the "parasites" in Atlas Shrugged were businessmen if you actually read it.
Ms. Rand mentored former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, yet look what he did. He poured gasoline on the free market until it exploded. Banks then required unprecedented government assistance. It's difficult think of a single individual who has redistributed more wealth and interfered in more free markets than Mr. Greenspan.
He did no such thing. He kept interest rates low allowing debts to spiral out of control. That's got nothing to do with the free market.
The Tea Party, however, keeps drinking Ms. Rand's Kool-Aid, not realizing the extent to which she inspired the very Fed that many Tea Party members now want abolished.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Rand would not have endorsed the Fed any more than the Christian extremists at the start, she certainly didn't inspire it.