Rebuilding the Wealth of the American Empire

Americans and Much of the World Are Paying for Decades of Excess

“Persuaded as the Secretary is, that the proper funding of the present debt, will render it a national blessing…he is so far from acceding to the position, in the latitude in which it is sometimes laid down, that “public debts are public benefits,” a position inviting to prodigality, and liable to dangerous abuse—that he ardently wishes to see it incorp…