# Professor Richard Sylla defends Alexander Hamilton's place on the $10 bill

1 Faculty News June 18, 2015 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-women-ten-dollar-bill-20150619-story.html) -- "'He's the person that set up the financial system,' Sylla said. 'He may have been the most important figure in terms of setting up this country.'"

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