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Nathan Tankus

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President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (crisesnotes.com) Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)

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By the standards set since the 1970s Himmler would have qualified for a novel peace prize if the allies were willing to accept conditional surrender

09.10.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Should We Start Shooting β€˜Corporate Zombies’? Ever since the era of risk free Zero Interest Rate Policy began with the Great Financial Crisis, there have been a number of different arguments which have popped up in the mainstream economic policy ...

Obvious explanation is overall demand conditions

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09.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay i was sick for nearly a full week but i am finally back and working

09.10.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Things that aren't wrong so much as really boring and played out
1) critique of rights discourse
2) what about the CRITIQUE of political economy??
3) financialization

08.10.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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canaries and islands the indicator species in the system

in which, I continue to plead for systems thinking in planning, reprising last night's bluesky rant, so people who read that can be excused. backofmind.substack.com/p/canaries-a...

08.10.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Ugh i was already behind on covering things (largely the shutdown) and have been sick for 5 days. Very annoyed

07.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.

07.10.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

About to have my 10th and 11th quart of veselka chicken noodle soup in 3 days. Hope to finally be better tomorrow

06.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

04.10.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10
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Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

03.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5758    πŸ” 1189    πŸ’¬ 532    πŸ“Œ 374
(ORDER LIST: 606 U.S.)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025

ORDER IN PENDING CASE

25A312 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. COOK, LISA D.

The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and
by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument in
January 2026. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing
schedule for amici curiae and any supplemental briefs responding
to amici.

(ORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 25A312 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. COOK, LISA D. The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule for amici curiae and any supplemental briefs responding to amici.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve Board Governor for now.

The court schedules oral arguments for January on DOJ's request to allow Trump's purported firing of Cook to take effect during litigation.

01.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1037    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 26
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Revealed: The Seven Secret Federal Reserve Books I Won Through FOIA 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

www.crisesnotes.com/revealed-the...

30.09.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Howard H. Hackley, The Status of the Federal Reserve System in the
Federal Government (1972)...................................................................................... 3

Howard H. Hackley, The Status of the Federal Reserve System in the Federal Government (1972)...................................................................................... 3

Its pretty amazing to see a monograph I got through FOIA nearly two years ago become an important citation in a monumental case before the Supreme Court.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

30.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

30.09.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 16847    πŸ” 6364    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 96

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

30.09.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2646    πŸ” 563    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 9

I get a lot of recognition! But thank you 😊

30.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just to take stock: the first claim was that there was an entire literature supporting the anti-birthright position. Then, *after* that claim, scholars emerged to post drafts on SSRN. And *now* the government points to a "growing body of modern scholarship" all drafted after the initial claim.

29.09.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1412    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 30
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Notes on the Crises Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

As usual subscribe, etc etc.

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30.09.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: The Seven Secret Federal Reserve Books I Won Through FOIA 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

www.crisesnotes.com/revealed-the...

30.09.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Howard H. Hackley, The Status of the Federal Reserve System in the
Federal Government (1972)...................................................................................... 3

Howard H. Hackley, The Status of the Federal Reserve System in the Federal Government (1972)...................................................................................... 3

Its pretty amazing to see a monograph I got through FOIA nearly two years ago become an important citation in a monumental case before the Supreme Court.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

30.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

God, i almost missed stupid lazy strawman Bruenig. I like how he is nearly explicitly "Robert Bork plus labor protections" in this piece

30.09.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am thinking about the audience i can record the talk in front of

29.09.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Netanyahu does it again "Mr. Trump Bibi broke triple pinky promise swearsies. A promise he made in front of you. So he lied. So he basically called you stupid. Are you gonna take that?"

29.09.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is so funny. If i were Qatari PM I would make Netanyahu say "i really really really really mean it, triple pinky promise swearsies" while Trump is on the line.

29.09.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's so remarkable that they found behavior so ghoulish it crossed a line for what John Yoo could justify

29.09.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part One This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Become a Paid Subscriber to read this piece and support Notes on the Crises Subscribe & Read This year I coined the phrase conve...

NEW PIECE: I'm very excited to bring the first part of a three part series digging deeper into my "Conventional Wisdom Processor" coinage. This was inspired by @pkrugman.bsky.social's generous discussion of the phrase last month.

www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...

26.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Layla Ben-Gurion's stomach would get a little queasy if someone went back in time & explained targeted drone strikes of children & creating the Lodz Ghetto with far more horrific imprisonment technology& no possibility to smuggle food in while dropping 2000 pound bombs. This matters, for some reason

29.09.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Six months at least gives Friedman time for a miracle to occur. Ravid units are uneven blotches of nonsense.

29.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The amount of weasel words here are amazing. "Might" and "through bombing and starvation" doing such amazingly heavy lifting.

29.09.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ravid's bit is so funny. The Ravid unit is close to replacing the Friedman unit as a measure of time. Its so funny to be a media ronin for trumped up preferred royal court narratives.

29.09.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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