Commentary President Joe Biden must have been reading W.W. Jacobs, an English author of charming short stories who wrote around the turn of the 20th century. Jacobs’s stories are often related through the mouth of a night-watchman at a wharf in London’s docks. “An Odd Freak” begins: “‘Speaking o’ money,’ said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, as he selected an empty soap-box on the wharf for a seat, ‘the whole world would be different if we all ’ad more of it. It would be a brighter and a ’appier place for everybody.’” The president has taken this message, so obviously true, to heart. The night-watchman has become his economic guru. Thanks to the president, then, everyone will soon have much more money than before, although (as is always the way) some will get more of it into their hands than others, depending on whether or not they are government contractors, members of …