So a congressman, a hedge fund manager and an economist walk into a bar …
Sounds like a good set-up for a joke, but that was the line-up last week at a Capitol Hill bistro. Not the kind of thing that would get much notice until the trio ordered a couple of $350 bottles of pinot noir.
As we reported Friday, the congressman was Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Now we’ve IDed the other two: a University of Chicago economist and the hedge fund manager who endowed the economist’s professorship. But it’s not just any hedge fund manager. Susan Crabtree reports.
