Brendan Greeley
@bhgreeley.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton. Working on early-modern Atlantic currencies. Writing a trade-press history of the dollar and a dissertation about the guinea. I used to be a journalist. I used to be a lot of things.
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Brendan Greeley
@bhgreeley.bsky.social
· Aug 10
The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
I just got a nice note from a stranger saying he'd pre-ordered my book, The Almighty Dollar. That is how I found out my book, The Almighty Dollar, is available for pre-order. Please pre-order my book, The Almighty Dollar. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
Just so goddamn disgusted with AI at the level of instruction. The students don't have a chance. AI is intellectual fentanyl. It shouldn't be this cheap. It's a gross failure of both regulation and capital markets that these companies can somehow not pay for training material but lose money anyway.
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just so goddamn disgusted with AI at the level of instruction. The students don't have a chance. AI is intellectual fentanyl. It shouldn't be this cheap. It's a gross failure of both regulation and capital markets that these companies can somehow not pay for training material but lose money anyway.
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I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.
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Just remember to be specific about your Epsteins ok?
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Just remember to be specific about your Epsteins ok?
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JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor.
You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
Senior Editor, Business
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor.
You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
I guess what I’m most excited about is having my book illegally used to train a large language model so my work can appear in website slop and undergraduate essays. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I guess what I’m most excited about is having my book illegally used to train a large language model so my work can appear in website slop and undergraduate essays. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
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A novelist back in the other place once tweeted something like writing a book is like climbing Mt. Everest and periodically passing your own corpses along the way.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A novelist back in the other place once tweeted something like writing a book is like climbing Mt. Everest and periodically passing your own corpses along the way.
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The latest banger in George's "bilge bracket" coverage www.ft.com/content/39a4...
How two tiny banks are helping Trump’s sons build a crypto empire
Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump Jr
www.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The latest banger in George's "bilge bracket" coverage www.ft.com/content/39a4...
If you're going to Kilkenomics this weekend, I'll see you there! www.kilkenomics.com/pages/brenda...
Brendan Greeley
Kilkenomics
www.kilkenomics.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you're going to Kilkenomics this weekend, I'll see you there! www.kilkenomics.com/pages/brenda...
Love a good balance sheet rant
This is such a pernicious piece of disinformation I got out of bed to type this thread with a real keyboard. First off I strongly recommend against withdrawing your money from a bank because TikTok told you to. It's a giant waste of your time. Second: don't trust a man that drinks blue Gatorade Zero
@peark.es is it true are the banks out of money? Should we run to the bank and withdraw our money?
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Love a good balance sheet rant
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Remember how earlier I said reserves can ONLY be held by banks? This is important in the context of quantitative easing (QE), which gets called money printing by dumbasses in their truck drinking blue Gatorade Zero. It's not. It's an asset swap.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Remember how earlier I said reserves can ONLY be held by banks? This is important in the context of quantitative easing (QE), which gets called money printing by dumbasses in their truck drinking blue Gatorade Zero. It's not. It's an asset swap.
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New nickname for Rhode Island just dropped.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New nickname for Rhode Island just dropped.
I spent weeks in a panic, like "the book's not ready for the world!" Then last night as I clicked send I thought "you need to get out of my house."
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I spent weeks in a panic, like "the book's not ready for the world!" Then last night as I clicked send I thought "you need to get out of my house."
I have turned in the absolutely final, post copy-edit draft of a book. Did you have any idea how many drafts of a book there are before you're done? I did not. But they are all done now.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I have turned in the absolutely final, post copy-edit draft of a book. Did you have any idea how many drafts of a book there are before you're done? I did not. But they are all done now.
My whole life in a footnote right here
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My whole life in a footnote right here
My whole book in a footnote right here
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My whole book in a footnote right here
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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When Napoleon said, “Let China sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” he was talking about the USDCNY fix.
PBOC sets the yuan’s daily midpoint at 7.0867 per dollar, up from 7.1200 at last close.
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When Napoleon said, “Let China sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” he was talking about the USDCNY fix.
So my life is basically this, and then one day I'll die
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So my life is basically this, and then one day I'll die
I’m supposed to be on a panel next week on the lessons of financial history and there is only one lesson: this ends poorly.
"The memo offers new insight into plans by Bowman, who was nominated by Trump to serve as vice chair earlier this year, to drastically rein in the Fed’s oversight of the banking sector."
Feels like the sort of headline that gets a rostrum shot and a voiceover in future documentaries
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
November 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m supposed to be on a panel next week on the lessons of financial history and there is only one lesson: this ends poorly.
Taking my daughter to the Maryland Archives today for a school project on Ann Catharine Green, printer for the colonial Province of Maryland. Daughter asked what to wear and I told her no one cares, but in a good way. Archives are the best.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Taking my daughter to the Maryland Archives today for a school project on Ann Catharine Green, printer for the colonial Province of Maryland. Daughter asked what to wear and I told her no one cares, but in a good way. Archives are the best.
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Yeah just not talking about this isn't sustainable either
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November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yeah just not talking about this isn't sustainable either
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Sometimes it's a bit jarring that the most hard core/in the weeds takes on monetary policy implementation come from the Dallas Fed insteady of NY. This Logan speech is key for those watching policy implemetation, esp. given shift on balance sheet this week.
Ample liquidity for a safe and efficient banking system
President Logan discussed the stance of monetary policy and how the Fed's balance sheet fosters a safe and efficient liquidity environment for the U.S. banking system.
www.dallasfed.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sometimes it's a bit jarring that the most hard core/in the weeds takes on monetary policy implementation come from the Dallas Fed insteady of NY. This Logan speech is key for those watching policy implemetation, esp. given shift on balance sheet this week.
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Honestly, I don't think I could trust the work of any historian who says they're "above narrative." Not only is it hubristic in precisely the way you mention, it shows a shocking lack of self-awareness. If you're engaging in historiography, you're working with narrative, whether or not you admit it!
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Honestly, I don't think I could trust the work of any historian who says they're "above narrative." Not only is it hubristic in precisely the way you mention, it shows a shocking lack of self-awareness. If you're engaging in historiography, you're working with narrative, whether or not you admit it!
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.