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Mar 4, 2025

Mini-Roundup: Nuanced Correction of Krugman Interview, Two Columbia Law Professors in the U of Chicago Law Review on my FOIA project & Attending Bloomberg Invest

Mini-Roundup: Nuanced Correction of Krugman Interview, Two Columbia Law Professors in the U of Chicago Law Review on my FOIA project & Attending Bloomberg Invest

Hello readers, this is not a full piece today. Well, I’m a writer so what I mean by “full piece” is it has a coherent and cohesive narrative that I unpack from introduction to conclusion. This “update” will still have plenty of content.

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Mar 1, 2025

Musk In Your Computers: Paul Krugman Interviews Nathan Tankus

Musk In Your Computers: Paul Krugman Interviews Nathan Tankus

I don’t really know what to say. I’ll figure out what to say another time. Paul Krugman, who recently left the New York Times, interviewed me for his newsletter and the transcript of the conversation, as well as the video, are being posted in both of our newsletters.

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Feb 26, 2025

A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin

A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Seven Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part

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Feb 24, 2025

How Can We Know if Government Payments Stop? An Exploratory analysis of Banking System Warning Signs

How Can We Know if Government Payments Stop? An Exploratory analysis of Banking System Warning Signs

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part

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Feb 21, 2025

Why Should We Care If the Trump Administration, and Musk’s DOGE, are Acting Unconstitutionally?

Why Should We Care If the Trump Administration, and Musk’s DOGE, are Acting Unconstitutionally?

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part

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Feb 18, 2025

Special Notice: DOGE is Now Going After the IRS Which Means I Need Former and Current IRS Sources, Especially COBOL Programmers

Special Notice: DOGE is Now Going After the IRS Which Means I Need Former and Current IRS Sources, Especially COBOL Programmers

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

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Feb 15, 2025

My Aunt Frieda Tankus- Co-founding Vice President of Disabled In Action (DIA)

My Aunt Frieda Tankus- Co-founding Vice President of Disabled In Action (DIA)

This is an “Off Topic” piece of Notes on the Crises. Off topic pieces will always be colored blue.  Readers are encouraged to ignore them if they are only interested in my day-to-day analysis and reporting. Check my “on topic” pieces for information about

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Feb 14, 2025

I asked Former Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employees to Interpret An Elon Musk Tweet. Here’s What they Told me

I asked Former Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employees to Interpret An Elon Musk Tweet. Here’s What they Told me

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Fifteen Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 & Part

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Feb 12, 2025

Day Thirteen of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Bombshell Court Filings Confirm Wired & Notes on the Crises Reporting & Raise Alarms About BFS-Based Impoundment

Day Thirteen of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025:  Bombshell Court Filings Confirm Wired & Notes on the Crises Reporting & Raise Alarms About BFS-Based Impoundment

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 & Part 7 If you are a current

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Feb 10, 2025

Day Eleven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Marko Elez’s Resignation, Return and Irrelevance

Day Eleven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Marko Elez’s Resignation, Return and Irrelevance

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 If you are a current or former

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Feb 6, 2025

Afternoon of Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Treasury Secretary Bessent’s Lawlessness & Sorry Readers- Read and Write Code Still Seems in Play

Afternoon of Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Treasury Secretary Bessent’s Lawlessness & Sorry Readers- Read and Write Code Still Seems in Play

UPDATE 4:21 PM: MARKO ELEZ HAS RESIGNED. WALL STREET JOURNAL CLAIMS IT WAS OVER "RACIST POSTS". OBVIOUSLY NOT TRUE- WIRED, TALKING POINTS MEMO AND I GOT HIM. NEED TO REST, MORE TOMORROW Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into

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Feb 6, 2025

Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something”

Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something”

Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 If you are a current or former career Bureau of the

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