Everything You Need to Know About How the “Volcker Shock” Worked That Sheila Bair Forgot to Ask
Student Loan Debt Cancellation Isn’t a Subsidy to Higher Education: Student Loan Credit is
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]Last Wednesday the Biden Administration announced a number of changes to how student debt would be treated by the Federal Government. They all were important, but the change attracting the most attention was canceling ten thousand dollars of student debt of each borrower
The Inflation Reduction Act, Employ America and Oil & Gas. Now What?
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]At the end of July, a few hours after I wrote about Employ America’s Oil and Gas proposal [https://www.crisesnotes.com/is-insuring-the-oil-and-gas-industry-the-right-response-to-the-fallout-from-ukraine/] , the Biden administration implemented a modified form of their proposal. To briefly summarize, the Biden administration committed to further
Is “Insuring” The Oil and Gas Industry the Right Response to the fallout from Ukraine?
This is a free piece of Notes on the Crises. Paid subscriptions help me release pieces like this for free, increasing their impact Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]So far this month I have been focusing on catching up to various different aspects of the “inflation” conversation that
The “Transitory Inflation” Debate Misses the Point.
Don’t Let Dick Cheney Ruin Price Regulation Too.
This is a Premium Pieces of Notes on the Crises In my last piece [https://www.crisesnotes.com/prices-prices-prices-almost-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-annoyed-to-ask/] I focused on laying out how I view the “inflation” conversation that has been going on in 2022 (on the abstract level). There I briefly touched on some received narratives about
Prices, Prices, Prices. (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know, but Were Too Annoyed to Ask.
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises I haven’t covered what’s been going on in pricing and the “inflation” conversation. At this point there is a lot to talk about, to say the least. In fact, part of what has taken this piece so long
[PREMIUM TRANSCRIPT] Notes On The Crises Podcast #3: Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima and Chris Marsh on the IMF in Argentina… Again
Notes On The Crises Podcast #3: Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima and Chris Marsh on the IMF in Argentina… Again
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New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]I don’t spend a lot of time writing about Modern Monetary Theory on Notes on the Crises. Regular readers will know that insights from MMT inform all my writing on this newsletter on various different topics. But I prefer to focus on
Why I put “Crises” and not “Crisis” in “Notes on the Crises”
Why Did the New York Federal Reserve Stop Surveying Evictions?
Something I have periodically kept my eye on over the course of the pandemic has been the results of the New York Federal Reserve’s Housing Survey. [https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/housing#/] Amazingly, they just happened to add some questions about evictions to their survey in the time