By 2007, working in Washington DC was a dream I had long given up on. Admittedly, I hadn't tried very hard. I pursued one interview back in 2004. I'm one of those annoying types who wants to "make the world a better place".Since policies in Washington bring so much harm to so many people, what better way than to be a brakeman on that runaway train? Contributing to politics-as-usual was never something I was interested in, so while I had always wanted to work in DC, only one beltway organization saw my resume, until Congressman Ron Paul's office asked for it.
We're an economics-heavy office, but without letters behind my name - just a plain old bachelor's degree, a few extra business classes and a little Oxford University thrown in for good measure - my economics training has been largely self-guided through the common sense school of Austrian economics - Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and others.
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