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Apr 17, 2025

A Spectrum Approach to Monetary Sovereignty and Our Dollar World

A Spectrum Approach to Monetary Sovereignty and Our Dollar World

This talk, entitled “Monetary Sovereigns, Monetary Subjects and Monetary Vassals: A Spectrum Approach to Monetary Sovereignty and Our Dollar World”, lays out the basic building blocks of how I think about the international monetary order.

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Apr 13, 2025

Is the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis A Crisis of the Dollar? It Doesn’t Seem to Be … Yet

Is the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis A Crisis of the Dollar? It Doesn’t Seem to Be … Yet

For those just tuning in: I wrote a piece a day for the first three days of this week on what we should probably now term the “Trump Tariff Financial Crisis”. The only missing piece was the international financial architecture part, which is the subject of today’s piece.

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Apr 9, 2025

104% China Tariffs Came into Effect at Midnight. We Instantly Entered this Crisis’s “Lehman Brothers” Moment

104% China Tariffs Came into Effect at Midnight. We Instantly Entered this Crisis’s “Lehman Brothers” Moment

Understanding what’s going on during the Trump Tariff stock market panic each day is extremely difficult. All of the most intricate and obscure questions about the Financial System’s “plumbing” become relevant all at once.

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Apr 8, 2025

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet)

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet)

I have a confession to make. Two months ago I tried to crash the stock market. Let me explain.

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Apr 7, 2025

Trump’s “Liberation Day” and the Ongoing Stock Market Crash: The Key Lessons to Take into the Second Week of the Market Bloodbath.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” and the Ongoing Stock Market Crash: The Key Lessons to Take into the Second Week of the Market Bloodbath.

It has been a little more than three weeks since my last piece, simultaneously published by Notes On The Crises and Rolling Stone, assessing the extremely alarming implications of the Federal Government taking 80.5 million dollars right out of New York City’s bank account.

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Mar 13, 2025

Can the Trump Administration Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone’s Bank Account?

Can the Trump Administration Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone’s Bank Account?

Federal Government’s mugging of New York City for FEMA funds suggests yes.

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Mar 11, 2025

Special Notice: My Colleague Rohan Grey Has Finished the Defining Law Review Article of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis

Special Notice: My Colleague Rohan Grey Has Finished the Defining Law Review Article of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis

At the end of my Paul Krugman interview, I made a point to plug Modern Money Network president and Willamette University law professor Rohan Grey’s then-unfinished article on payments bottlenecks at the Federal Reserve and Treasury. The interview itself explains why:

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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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