Normally I do not release pieces on Saturdays or Sundays. However, this is the third anniversary of the first piece I ever sent of this newsletter. That brief note, appropriately titled “Sign of the Times”, was more like a glorified social media post than

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Special note to readers. Typically, when I haven’t written in a while for the newsletter I will write a few free pieces, and then write some premium pieces as a reward to loyal paid subscribers (and motivate people to take out paid subscriptions.

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Financial crisis nerds have had quite a weekend. In short order the one-of-a-kind Silicon Valley Bank began to reportedly be experiencing losses, and large uninsured depositors began loudly and aggressively “pulling” their deposits.

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This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Thank you for being a paid subscriber. Lately, the 1970s have loomed large in economic commentary, thanks to a recurrence of panic over inflation. History is often invoked in mainstream press coverage about economic

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Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]On this episode we have a very special guest, economist Daniel Mitchell on his time as the chief economist of Nixon’s pay board, the “wages” part of wage and price controls. He is also coauthor, along

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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

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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,

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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

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