Ted should get a job as Fox News Host. That is how you get a foot in the door at the Trump administration.
Back in the '80s when he had just finished his doctoral work, Malloch popped up occasionally in economics circles. At the time he was earnest and even made a certain amount of sense; when he spoke about trade and development, for example.
I recall him even criticizing the Reagan Administration for trying to export “trickle-down economics” to places like Puerto Rico. His criticism was too mild and he should have extended it to cover the US but, still, it was something. The State Department noticed him and gave him a job.
By the early '90s, however, he had lost his earnestness. He got involved with the kind of wealthy people who impressed him with the power they wielded in public affairs, openly or otherwise. That was the end of him as a moral being.