Richard Vague
Financial historian and author focused on banking and debt; wrote The Banker Who Made America and previously The Case for a Debt Jubilee.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 34min
A Willing Philadelphia Story: Richard Vague on the Wealthiest & Most Invisible American Founding Father
Richard Vague, financial historian and author, explores Thomas Willing — Philadelphia’s richest banker who financed the Revolution he opposed. Short episodes cover Willing’s smuggling of gunpowder, his bank’s role funding the war, his influence on Hamilton and the Constitution, ties to slave trading, and how elite finance shaped early American politics.
