Curious bash evaluation

[Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo]

Hello. See this:

# A="echo 'hi'"

# echo $($A)
'hi'

# echo 'hi'
hi

Does anyone understand why does the first command 
evals the echo but echoes the simple quotes? 

Is there any dark shopt option which makes it run correctly?

Thanks...
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