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Posted a Youtube video of my interview with @deathpanel.bsky.social on the @crisesnotes.bsky.social channel. I will try to more regularly post audio &/or video interviews on my youtube channel (&, as a reminder, I'm monetized now so watching the youtube videos help)
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Nathan Tanks the Economy:An Oral History of 100 Days of DOGE w/ Nathan Tankus @deathpanel
YouTube video by Notes on the Crises
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May 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Posted a Youtube video of my interview with @deathpanel.bsky.social on the @crisesnotes.bsky.social channel. I will try to more regularly post audio &/or video interviews on my youtube channel (&, as a reminder, I'm monetized now so watching the youtube videos help)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdv...
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Feminized labor exploitation patterns have spread beyond their original categories. When real grievances can't be understood through available discourse, they get articulated incoherently. This delegitimizes the grievances themselves. Their dismissal then entrenches their reactionary interpretation.
May 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Feminized labor exploitation patterns have spread beyond their original categories. When real grievances can't be understood through available discourse, they get articulated incoherently. This delegitimizes the grievances themselves. Their dismissal then entrenches their reactionary interpretation.
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The fear of Al-Bundification—of being downwardly mobile, of being trapped in alienating, demeaning, feminized service work—was best understood as an expression of failed masculinity was central to Trump's appeal in 2016. It's currently being repackaged for a new generation.
May 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The fear of Al-Bundification—of being downwardly mobile, of being trapped in alienating, demeaning, feminized service work—was best understood as an expression of failed masculinity was central to Trump's appeal in 2016. It's currently being repackaged for a new generation.
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NEW PIECE: I've decided to finally publish a piece from four years ago that is unfortunately very relevant today: defending the Federal Reserve's status as an independent agency doesn't require embracing the ideology of "central bank independence"
www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...
www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...
Just Another Administrative Agency: Preserving Central Bank Discretion Without Illusions
The extensive “Notes on the Crises Investigative Journalism Source Wish List” can be found here. All listed items are important to me. As always, Sources can contact me over email or over signal (a se...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEW PIECE: I've decided to finally publish a piece from four years ago that is unfortunately very relevant today: defending the Federal Reserve's status as an independent agency doesn't require embracing the ideology of "central bank independence"
www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...
www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...
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3 essential newsletters for a finance crash course:
Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com
Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots.
Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.
Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com
Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots.
Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.
ICYMI I put out a very long piece yesterday on the "crisis of the dollar"narrative going around. To unpack it I ran through a thorough explanation of financial derivatives & the dollar-based 113 Trillion dollar FX swap market that structures global money & finance
www.crisesnotes.com/is-the-trump...
www.crisesnotes.com/is-the-trump...
Is the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis A Crisis of the Dollar? It Doesn’t Seem to Be … Yet
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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”. I am coming to you Sunday ...
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April 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
3 essential newsletters for a finance crash course:
Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com
Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots.
Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.
Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com
Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots.
Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.
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What do I mean by useful?
MMT has worked *very* well as a model for understanding both the trajectory of the real economy and markets for my entire career. Economists that used other approaches regularly over-estimated inflation for example. For over a decade, not as part of a dynamic shock.
MMT has worked *very* well as a model for understanding both the trajectory of the real economy and markets for my entire career. Economists that used other approaches regularly over-estimated inflation for example. For over a decade, not as part of a dynamic shock.
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What do I mean by useful?
MMT has worked *very* well as a model for understanding both the trajectory of the real economy and markets for my entire career. Economists that used other approaches regularly over-estimated inflation for example. For over a decade, not as part of a dynamic shock.
MMT has worked *very* well as a model for understanding both the trajectory of the real economy and markets for my entire career. Economists that used other approaches regularly over-estimated inflation for example. For over a decade, not as part of a dynamic shock.
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I think this thread is absolutely right and would add that people in established democracies have completely forgotten what the concept of popular legitimacy is. We think legitimacy is procedural but it’s actually contingent and that’s literally the founding idea of this country.
It's not really about impeachment, per se. It's that if we could get 5% of the country to show up in DC and refuse to leave until this government falls, it will fall.
March 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I think this thread is absolutely right and would add that people in established democracies have completely forgotten what the concept of popular legitimacy is. We think legitimacy is procedural but it’s actually contingent and that’s literally the founding idea of this country.
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don't threaten me with a good time
March 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
don't threaten me with a good time
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Important read. Again, the big picture is that this is WILDLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL & A TOTAL ARTICLE I FAILURE & these people should be in jail & no one who swore oaths should follow their orders & every journalist should be asking Speaker Johnson & SML Thune why the hell they're violating their oaths.
March 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Important read. Again, the big picture is that this is WILDLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL & A TOTAL ARTICLE I FAILURE & these people should be in jail & no one who swore oaths should follow their orders & every journalist should be asking Speaker Johnson & SML Thune why the hell they're violating their oaths.
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
(Link at the end)
(Link at the end)
February 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
(Link at the end)
(Link at the end)