Hamilton on Wall Street

The U.S. founding father and Broadway sensation steals the show from Larry Summers, Charles Schwab, Ray Dalio, and Joe Ricketts.

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Illustration by Yarek Waszul.

Call it trickle-down economics. When Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton exploded on Broadway, making the nation’s first Treasury secretary an unlikely posthumous celebrity, it wasn’t just musical theater that got a boost.

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