How George Washington Laid the Foundations of America’s Economic Freedom and Prosperity

‘The economic transformation Washington put in place was neither preordained nor inevitable,’ historian Charles Ansary states.

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Americans today have reached unprecedented heights of prosperity, but our economic system rests on a foundation that was built centuries ago under the direction of the nation’s first president, George Washington.

“Not unlike our political form of government, the economic transformation Washington put in place was neither preordained nor inevitable,” historian Charles Ansary writes in his biography, “George Washington: Dealmaker in Chief.”