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Jan 28, 2025

Does Restricting Treasury Purchases to the “Open Market” Matter? Long Forgotten & Secret Federal Reserve Memo Says “No”. #MonetaryPolicy201

Does Restricting Treasury Purchases to the “Open Market” Matter? Long Forgotten & Secret Federal Reserve Memo Says “No”. #MonetaryPolicy201

#MonetaryPolicy201 is a monthly series about the basics of monetary policy. It’s a “201” series because I will be grounding the basics of monetary policy on their largely forgotten legal foundations. The beginning of this series will focus on various aspects of the

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Jan 21, 2025

MORE FOIA MEMOS: The Fed’s 2013 Treasury Default Memo. Just in Time for Another Round of Debt Ceiling Politics

MORE FOIA MEMOS: The Fed’s 2013 Treasury Default Memo.   Just in Time for Another Round of Debt Ceiling Politics

Please recommend an institutional subscription to your academic library or employer (details here) The debt ceiling was unsuspended January 1st of this year which means the debt ceiling is back. According to now-former Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, they began using “extraordinary measures” to avoid

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Dec 10, 2024

What Exactly is an “Open Market” Operation? #MonetaryPolicy201

What Exactly is an “Open Market” Operation? #MonetaryPolicy201

#MonetaryPolicy201 is a monthly series about the basics of monetary policy. It’s a “201” series because I will be grounding the basics of monetary policy on their largely forgotten legal foundations. The beginning of this series will focus on various aspects of the

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Dec 5, 2024

“The First Cause of Stability of Our Currency is the Concentration Camp”: Central Banker Solidarity on the road to Hitler’s Czechoslovakian gold

“The First Cause of Stability of Our Currency is the Concentration Camp”: Central Banker Solidarity on the road to Hitler’s Czechoslovakian gold

Pavlos Roufos is a Greek political economist living in Berlin. He has a PhD in political science from Kassel University. He works on central banks, constitutional law and European integration from the 1920s to today, with a special emphasis on the Eurozone crisis. You

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Nov 25, 2024

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Institutional Subscriptions are here! Get Your Academic Library or Business to Subscribe

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Institutional Subscriptions are here! Get Your Academic Library or Business to Subscribe

Over the years I’ve gotten inquiries about taking on institutional subscriptions. Those requests have come from both academics and employees at for-profit businesses- Institutional subscriptions mean that a firm or a library would sign up on behalf of their employees, students or simply

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Nov 22, 2024

One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets

One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets

Announcement: I'm putting on an end of year sale. For just 55 dollars a year you can subscribe and receive premium pieces of Notes on the Crises. This also helps support the FOIA efforts I've been engaging- like the 30,

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Nov 19, 2024

Here Are the 30,000 Pages of Federal Reserve Board Meeting Minutes I Got Through FOIA. They Completely Rewrite Federal Reserve History.

Here Are the 30,000 Pages of Federal Reserve Board Meeting Minutes I Got Through FOIA. They Completely Rewrite Federal Reserve History.

For the past year and a half I’ve increasingly focused on using FOIA to scrutinize the Federal Reserve. Before I unveil the crown jewel of what I’ve accomplished so far, I think it's worth stepping back and saying why I’ve undertaken such a broad project.

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Oct 17, 2024

From Relic to Indispensable: How the Federal Reserve Nearly Gave Up Its Emergency Lending Powers in 1967

From Relic to Indispensable: How the Federal Reserve Nearly Gave Up Its Emergency Lending Powers in 1967

Perhaps the most shocking thing I have come across in the minutes is that the Federal Reserve very nearly got rid of its own emergency powers.

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Oct 9, 2024

The Fed Should Create a Hurricane Crisis Facility

The Fed Should Create a Hurricane Crisis Facility

The Federal Reserve should create a Hurricane crisis facility. Massive hurricanes are "unusual and exigent circumstances" and should be treated as such.

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Sep 24, 2024

Revealed: The Federal Reserve’s Secret 1973 Plan to Bailout the Saving & Loan Industry That Very Nearly Happened

Revealed: The Federal Reserve’s Secret 1973 Plan to Bailout the Saving & Loan Industry That Very Nearly Happened

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

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Jul 25, 2024

The New York Federal Reserve’s “Doomsday Book” Has Been (Partially) Revealed

The New York Federal Reserve’s “Doomsday Book”  Has Been (Partially) Revealed

Yet, as successful as I have been at using FOIA regarding the Federal Reserve, I didn’t have the biggest Freedom of Information victory against the Federal Reserve System in 2023 (that had to wait for this year). Not by a long shot.

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Feb 6, 2024

Revealed: The Seven Secret Federal Reserve Books I Won Through FOIA

Revealed: The Seven Secret Federal Reserve Books I Won Through FOIA

Nathan Tankus reveals seven secret books authored by a very important Federal Reserve general counsel that he unearthed through a Freedom of Information Act request

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