John Allison, founder and longtime head of the North Carolina-based bank BB&T and, most recently, president of the libertarian think tank Cato. He gave every employee of his bank, the 14th-largest in the U.S. by assets, a copy of “Atlas Shrugged,” and regularly lectured them on the evils of altruism.
On Monday Donald Trump is scheduled to discuss potential cabinet positions with a former bank CEO who bribed colleges to teach Ayn Rand, wants to end the Fed, and has argued that bank regulations dating back to the Great Depression should be chucked.
That man is John Allison, founder and longtime head of the North Carolina-based bank BB&T and, most recently, president of the libertarian think tank Cato. As a Treasury secretary hopeful, Allison’s politics make Jamie Dimon look like Elizabeth Warren.
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Allison has long echoed the Trump campaign’s view that Dodd-Frank should be dismantled. But…
