An update on my major project of the moment: launching my 30,000 page database of FOIA minutes. All of the minutes have been uploaded to my website, but generating an accessible and searchable database of these pdf files has taken significantly longer than
An update on my major project of the moment: launching my 30,000 page database of FOIA minutes. All of the minutes have been uploaded to my website, but generating an accessible and searchable database of these pdf files has taken significantly longer than expected. Expect the database to go
Subscribe Readers may recall that I wrote a Politico Op Ed at a critical moment in the debt ceiling showdown. That piece, was entitled “Biden Can Steamroll Republicans on the Debt Ceiling”, and I aimed squarely at debunking the idea that the Federal Reserve would step on any “unilateral actions”
Subscribe On March 16th 2023, the Thursday after Silicon Valley Bank Failed, I published a piece entitled “What's going on with Treasuries? Silicon Valley Bank and the incoherence of the Federal Reserve's (lack of) an interest rate policy this week.” The central premise of this piece
Subscribe Long time and close readers of Notes on the Crises will be aware that I’m a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) scholar. More than three years ago now I published written remarks of a talk I gave to a Federal Credit Union which laid out my (brief) articulation of
Hello Readers, I'm very excited to announce that I'm under contract with Viking Press of Penguin for my book on the Federal Reserve entitled "Picking Losers". I'm sure I will write about some of the themes of the book (especially the more