John Steele Gordon is a renown and surprisingly entertaining economic historian.  As we write this blog post, his Empire of Wealth , The Epic History of American Economic Power sits prominently on the bookshelf behind us.   Mr. Gordon regularly writes for both Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal, and we found his essay in today’s Journal, “A Short History of the National Debt,” to be well worth the read.

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