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This is weird. And honestly seems like a story that might be found in The Onion.
Across the street from the White House, a paean has opened to the ultimate 1980s throwback: the celebration of capitalism.
Behold! The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, a gleaming, privately funded museum partly curated and controlled by Michael R. Milken, the once-jailed bond financier pardoned by President Trump. It focuses the story of the nation around bankers, lenders and Mr. Milken himself.
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Across the street from the White House, a paean has opened to the ultimate 1980s throwback: the celebration of capitalism.
Behold! The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, a gleaming, privately funded museum partly curated and controlled by Michael R. Milken, the once-jailed bond financier pardoned by President Trump. It focuses the story of the nation around bankers, lenders and Mr. Milken himself.

On Pennsylvania Ave., Michael Milken’s Curious Temple to the American Dream
A new museum created by the once imprisoned financier offers the financial elite’s take on the nation’s virtues.