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Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that
Given recent events, I felt it was finally time to come back and publish this piece. Most of my writing was going to be devoted to piercing the ideology of central bank independence so that the Federal Reserve would be treated like an independent administrative agency like any other.
Exactly seven weeks since the first interview Krugman did with me was published, I have another interview to bring readers -- it's focused on the bread and butter elements that make up a modern financial crisis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
#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
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
#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
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