2000: We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchants books, so that every member of Congress, and every man of any mind in the Union, should be able to comprehend them to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, April 1, 1802, in The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (ed. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, Modern Library, New York, 1944), p. 566.
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Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor,” the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.”
