An economic scholar who throws down with Hamilton might seem unnecessarily frantic.
His rhymes will make ya holler—he ain’t no John Milton—but it’s cool cuz he’s so damn pedantic.

Robert E. Wright is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
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