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    George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center

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    thinking and writing about financial regulation. hopefully it's worth reading.

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    Jack Salmon is a Research Fellow and Gibbs Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he focuses on economic and fiscal policy, with an emphasis on federal budgets, taxation, economic growth, and institutional analysis.

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    Joshua Rowley is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center with interests in fiscal and economic policy, international trade, and avoiding a fiscal catastrophe. He was previously an economist for the US House Budget Committee.

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