# Professor Richard Sylla explains the US Treasury's decision to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill

1 Faculty News April 20, 2016 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from the [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-harriet-tubman-20-bill-20160420-story.html) -- "'He \[Hamilton\] launched the financial system, he straightened out the government's finances,' said [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), financial history professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'A lot of the good things about American history were due to what Hamilton did as treasury secretary. I think Americans weren't quite aware of that.'"

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