A collection of 26 posts
How Trump, DOGE, and Project 2025 Are Turning the IRS Into a Tool of Authoritarian Rule Editor’s Introduction: Hello readers, it's Nathan Tankus and I am very happy to bring
It has been some time since I’ve provided detailed analysis of the Trump Tariff situation. Others are covering the details of the Tariffs themselves quite well. The best coverage of the tariff
Subscribe I have ended up taking a lot longer to write up my biggest picture thoughts on the dollar than I initially expected. Partially this is because things seem to have stabilized- for
I have a lot of writing to get out over the next couple of weeks, especially following up on the Trump Tariff Crisis and the Future of the Dollar. I also need to
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.
This talk, entitled “Monetary Sovereigns, Monetary Subjects and Monetary Vassals: A Spectrum Approach to Monetary Sovereignty and Our Dollar World”, lays out the basic building blocks of how I think about the international monetary order.
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.
I have a confession to make. Two months ago I tried to crash the stock market. Let me explain.
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.
Federal Government’s mugging of New York City for FEMA funds suggests yes.
At the end of my Paul Krugman interview, I made a point to plug Modern Money Network president and Willamette University law professor Rohan Grey’s then-unfinished article on payments bottlenecks at the Federal Reserve and Treasury. The interview itself explains why:
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.