Department of the Treasury

<p><span class="deck">200 years ago, the United States was a weakling republic prostrate beneath a ruinous national debt. Then, Alexander Hamilton worked the miracle of fiscal imagination that made America a health,y young economic giant. How did he do it?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">At its roots lie fundamental tensions that have bedeviled American banking since the nation began.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why we hate the new money.</span></p>