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Ben Bernanke Defends Hamilton On $10 Bill And Central Bank Honor

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Mark Melin
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Placing a female on the image on the ten dollar bill is an affront to a key central bank supporter, a former central banker wrote today. Demoting the symbol of the creation of the central bank economic planning committee, Alexander Hamilton, whose face currently is planted on the $10 bill, while keeping early central bank critic, Andrew Jackson, who currently adorns the $20 bill, is a crime that cannot go without debate.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.