Nathan Tankus

@nathantankus.bsky.social

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Newsletter: Notes on the Crises (crisesnotes.com)

Book: Picking Losers, about the Fed, under contract with Viking Books

email: crisesnotes(at)gmail(dot)com

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got seven secret Federal Reserve books through FOIA. In this piece I provide access to all of them and give a background description of their contents and why they are important. www.crisesnotes.com/revealed-the...

Revealed: The Seven Secret Federal Reserve Books I Won Through FOIAwww.crisesnotes.com Nathan Tankus reveals seven secret books authored by a very important Federal Reserve general counsel that he unearthed through a Freedom of Information Act request

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Good read. Worth the paywall

ICYMI: yesterday I wrote about two Federal Reserve memos from 1969 which reveal the extent the Federal Reserve will go to prevent debt ceiling-driven Treasury default www.crisesnotes.com/more-foia-fi...

More FOIA Findings: The New Nixon Administration’s Debt Ceiling Dilemma and the Federal Reserve’...www.crisesnotes.com Nathan Tankus covers his latest FOIA finding from the Federal Reserve regarding its response to Treasury debt ceiling struggles in 1968

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Life on social media would be so much sweeter if folks didn't consider every post an opportunity for unsolicited advice or argument

In case you missed it, on Tuesday I put out a piece documenting the Memo I got through a FOIA request from the Federal Reserve explaining the extraordinary lengths they will go to preserve financial stability after a treasury default because of the debt ceiling www.crisesnotes.com/i-got-the-fe...

Any property law professors willing to email me their syllabuses? I am very interested in how people approach it. I have started thinking about how teaching property through the lens of collateral could be quite powerful. Email is crisesnotes[at]gmail[dot]com

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Legal scholars: please consider signing this letter, and please circulate widely--time is of the essence. Information to add your name is in the document. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Legal Scholars Demand to Withdraw US Support for Attacks on Gazadocs.google.com

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Refuo's blueprint, and the latest Conor Friedersdorf piece in the Atlantic

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by prohibiting jews from protesting against the abuses of palestinians, the german government has achieved the impossible task of being antisemitic and islamophobic at the same time. kudos to germany, still the undisputed champion of this kind of thing

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The biggest lie being spread about the war is that it has anything to do with saving the hostages. The Israeli government is sacrificing the safety of the hostages specifically in order to wage the war. Any other framing is a dishonest or ignorant way of justifying the war.

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"The Left is long overdue for a higher-quality conversation about ‘Keynesianism.’" -- It's as if @nathantankus.bsky.social wrote this specifically for me: jacobin.com/2023/10/keyn...

Keynes and the Marxistsjacobin.com Left denunciations of “Keynesianism” often seem obvious and self-evident. But socialist economic analysis has had more to do with Keynes’s ideas than usually acknowledged.

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If you read his recent posts, you will learn that 1) there is no reason to believe that high interest rates led to the recent fall in inflation; and 2) we can be absolutely certain that lowering rates would lead to a big rise in inflation.

"in coming years I would review hundreds of volumes. After reading a book, it takes small extra effort to write down your view of it, and to do so is to impress anything that was worthy on your memory.

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So far I've really appreciated the tone of the latest Brenner debate, but I have to confess I find this literally incomprehensible and - frankly - embarrassing for the blog that published it. Can anyone tell me what this means? newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Tweeting this here since I can't say it on the bad place: Why can't people just like a podcast? Why does the guy you like have to be extremely "brilliant" or a "historian" when they mainly deal in crude jokes on a comedy podcast?

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I really enjoyed @nathantankus.bsky.social post from today. Rare to see a public intellectual make the effort to go back and example why they had something wrong. We’re all better for that.

I Was Wrong About Post-SVB Treasury Market Strains- Here’s Whywww.crisesnotes.com Subscribe 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 Re...

still haven't figured out how I'm going to get twitter threads crossposted here, so for now here's this: Some comments on Seth Ackerman's Brenner piece that people here will be interested in twitter.com/NathanTankus...

I'm not going to actively switch here but I've decided to open this account so when people switch over they can find me and to prepare for twitter's potential demise and certain continued crapification.

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