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.
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On March 16th 2023, the Thursday after Silicon Valley Bank Failed, I published a piece entitled “What's going on with Treasuries? Silicon Valley Bank and the incoherence of the Federal
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