About the Author

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LUCAS FRANKLIN writes with bite, heart, and a historian’s eye for inconvenient truth.

An economist, former floor trader and political consultant, Franklin has lived on five continents—absorbing the way governments rise, markets break, and people adapt.

He descends from the Franklin line, but his voice is unmistakably his own: analytical, unsentimental, and wired with global perspective. 

His writing pulls history, finance, and politics into one frame, exposing the incentives, lies, and leverage points that drive human behavior.