Economics 101: Change happens  A presidential campaign is the
health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes
into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize,
resentments to stoke, dull gray truths to be replaced by shiny
new shibboleths, and the gullible 99 percent to be fired up
against the evil 1 percent.  Arise, ye disgruntled! We have
nothing to lose but whatever we were taught in Economics 101.  .
. .   It's been happening at least since Andrew Jackson declared
war on the Second Bank of the United States, the last vestige of
Alexander Hamilton's vision of a fiscal system worthy of a great
and growing nation. With the bank's demise by executive order,
it was replaced by wildcat banks and their worthless banknotes.
A general malaise settled in; the Panic of 1837 would go on a
lot longer than 1837. America itself became a bad risk.  Old
Hickory proved more of an Indian fighter than economist, though
he was equally fierce in both endeavors. His war against the
national bank killed an