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Robert E. Wright

Twitter: @robertewright
Robert Eric Wright is a business, economic, financial, and monetary historian and the inaugural Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. -From Wikipedia

Positions

“On the grandest scale, the secretary's policies helped to solidify the new government by creating incentives for wealthy individuals to invest in it, directly through ownership of its bonds and indirectly through ownership of shares in the Bank of the United States. He surmised, correctly as it turned out, that the financial system would be "the powerful cement of our Union”
business, economic, financial, and monetary historian
1 May 2006
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/910687.html
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