Michael Knowles

Don't worry about it.

We're gonna put it in a compartment over here, and then we're gonna get back to our agenda.

And the problem, especially when it comes to war, but really with any geopolitical event is,

You can't just compartmentalize it.

All of a sudden, there's so many externalities.

There's so many unintended consequences that, yes, to your point, Megan, you might even be getting into issues with the Fed because even if they were inclined to cut rates, maybe now gas prices, oil's driving inflation up a little too much because it raises cost of any good that's shipped.

And all of a sudden now that has an effect on...

Housing and all, you know, these things spin out of control.

This is one reason that we conservatives are a little shyer about wielding the government than the left is the left thinks they can control everything in society.

And really, you can't.

So George Washington, not only was his estate worth, yes, as you say, Megan, the equivalent of about $600 million, he also had neglected his plantation for all the years of his public service.

So you could say, well, he wasn't technically the equivalent of a billionaire.

He actually might have been.

He was sacrificing a lot of his wealth in order to fight for the revolution.

But we have some other data points as well.

George Washington was not the single wealthiest person in the colonies at the time.

He was pretty close, but not the single most.

That would probably go to Robert Morris, who is one of the few founding fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

The single wealthiest man in the colonies at the time of the Revolution.

But it's not just him.