No Jodie? No Reagan Revolution

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Sure, she's won two Academy Awards.

But until now, Jodie Foster has never been credited with the enormous impact she had on the economic boom of the 1980s as the driving force behind Reaganomics.

(We'll pause here for a moment while you go, "Come again?")

Robert Mundell, a Columbia University Nobel Prize-winning professor, advanced that theory recently in the Financial Times. The British-based international business newspaper reported that Foster's role in the 1976 classic film "Taxi Driver" ultimately had an enormous impact on the U.S. economy.

(We'll pause here for a moment while you go, "Come again?")

Mundell's theory: John Hinckley …