Every Complex Banking Issue All At Once: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank in One Brief Summary and Five Quick Implications
The Dangerous Brilliance Of Issuing a Token That Isn’t Your Liability: An FTX Lesson
The Arthur Burns That Time Forgot: “Inflationary Psychology” and “explosive” wage rates in the 1970s
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Thank you for being a paid subscriber. Lately, the 1970s have loomed large in economic commentary, thanks to a recurrence of panic over inflation. History is often invoked in mainstream press coverage about economic policy, which is understandable and can
[PREMIUM TRANSCRIPT] Notes On The Crises Podcast #4: Daniel Mitchell, Chief Economist of Nixon’s Pay Board
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Notes On The Crises Podcast #4: Economist Daniel Mitchell On His Time As Chief Economist of Nixon’s Pay Board, the “Wages” Part of Wage and Price Controls.
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]On this episode we have a very special guest, economist Daniel Mitchell on his time as the chief economist of Nixon’s pay board, the “wages” part of wage and price controls. He is also coauthor, along with “public” member of the 15
Everyone Relax, The Bank of England Keeping Bond Markets ‘Orderly’ is Normal
Everything You Need to Know About How the “Volcker Shock” Worked That Sheila Bair Forgot to Ask
Student Loan Debt Cancellation Isn’t a Subsidy to Higher Education: Student Loan Credit is
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]Last Wednesday the Biden Administration announced a number of changes to how student debt would be treated by the Federal Government. They all were important, but the change attracting the most attention was canceling ten thousand dollars of student debt of each borrower
The Inflation Reduction Act, Employ America and Oil & Gas. Now What?
Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]At the end of July, a few hours after I wrote about Employ America’s Oil and Gas proposal [https://www.crisesnotes.com/is-insuring-the-oil-and-gas-industry-the-right-response-to-the-fallout-from-ukraine/] , the Biden administration implemented a modified form of their proposal. To briefly summarize, the Biden administration committed to further
Is “Insuring” The Oil and Gas Industry the Right Response to the fallout from Ukraine?
This is a free piece of Notes on the Crises. Paid subscriptions help me release pieces like this for free, increasing their impact Subscribe [https://www.crisesnotes.com/#/portal/signup]So far this month I have been focusing on catching up to various different aspects of the “inflation” conversation that
The “Transitory Inflation” Debate Misses the Point.
Don’t Let Dick Cheney Ruin Price Regulation Too.
This is a Premium Pieces of Notes on the Crises In my last piece [https://www.crisesnotes.com/prices-prices-prices-almost-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-annoyed-to-ask/] I focused on laying out how I view the “inflation” conversation that has been going on in 2022 (on the abstract level). There I briefly touched on some received narratives about