Sean Vanatta

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New episode alert: @seanvanatta.bsky.social joins host @dygottlieb.bsky.social for a banking mega-pod.

Come for the credit cards, stay for the fine-grained analysis of banking supervision.

The first American Pope. His first international trip. To TURKEY. On THANKSGIVING 🦃🦃🦃. 🤔🤔🤔

My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.

Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*

Budget exposes Labour to charges of being ‘high tax, high welfare’ party For now Rachel Reeves appears to have reassured many fractious backbench MPs

I should hope so! It's the m---- f--ing labour party. 'They are unanimous in their hatred for me and I welcome their hatred,' etc. etc.

Budget exposes Labour to charges of being ‘high tax, high welfare’ party - on.ft.com/49CUhL5 via @FT

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

I use the Em dash--over use it even--and I am not a robot.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

I was delighted to contribute to the Yale JREG symposium on @seanvanatta.bsky.social and @petercontibrown.bsky.social's excellent new book.

My essay examines what the book can teach us about efforts to eliminate management ratings from the supervisory toolkit.
www.yalejreg.com/nc/in-defens...

Thrilled about this. Check it out!

The Yale Journal of Regulation is hosting a symposium on @petercontibrown.bsky.social & @seanvanatta.bsky.social's new book "Private Finance, Public Power" - a deeply researched history of bank supervision that anyone interested in banking, state capacity, or Am. political development should read.

Airlines Want a Piece of Every Purchase You Make

Your periodic reminder that credit card rewards are a regressive tax that should be regulated out of existence:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/b...

The tooth fairy is rummaging through the couch cushions tonight. Anyone have 2 quid lying around?

Antimonopoly Banking After the New Deal - ProMarket The following is an excerpt from "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, now out at Princeton University Press. 

NEW: Read an excerpt from “Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America” by @petercontibrown.bsky.social and @seanvanatta.bsky.social, now out at @princetonupress.bsky.social.

www.promarket.org/2025/07/25/a...

Brown & Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...

Private Finance, Public Power featured on the Legal History Blog:

legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/brow...

Thank you to the many friends and colleagues who have supported this work over its long journey, and to the team at @princetonupress.bsky.social, who made the book and brought it to the world.

Private Finance, Public Power The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

Today is the official pub. date for @petercontibrown.bsky.social and my book, Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America.

We did not anticipate that it would drop at a moment when so much in supervision is up for grabs.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

If you want to understand what @jeremykress.bsky.social is so worked up about, our book Private Finance, Public Power is out today!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It's called supervisory discretion, Jeremy!

Proud of my two students, @petercontibrown and @seanvanatta.bsky.social on their fantastic new book, Private Finance, Public Power. @princetonupress.bsky.social

That magic moment when your research comes full circle. Charge it!

Classic bring your bagpipes to work day here in Glasgow.

That's a wrap on The Past and Future of Bank Supervision @brookings.edu . Thanks to Aaron Klein for organising and hosting a great event!

Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta on the History of Bank Supervision in America Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System, and an associate professor at the

Super fun show this week with @seanvanatta.bsky.social and @petercontibrown.bsky.social on their new history of bank supervision in the United States. We also cover the recent SCOTUS case on POTUS removing Fed governors, powerlifting, and more! www.mercatus.org/macro-musing... (1/n)

Unfortunately, Illinois did not adopt the pension laws commission's recomendations, and has continued to be a poster child for disastrous unsound pension plans.

Started writing the next book today. Off to a good start:

“The laws of the various states for pensions of public employes have been enacted with almost utter disregard for the disastrous experiences contained in the history of unsound pension plans.”

Illinois Pension Laws Commission, 1919

Private Finance, Public Power, real and in the flesh! Can't wait until this starts shipping out.

Get yours at press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Glasgow, Taps-Aff or Taps-Oan?

I do love this country. It's Braw.

www.taps-aff.co.uk

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Consumers Show Signs of Strain Amid Trump's Tariff Rollout Consumer spending has been the bulwark against recession. A pullback could slow the economy.

“'The U.S. consumer never lets us down,' John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

This, with the graph of credit card delinquencies, is the entire post-New Deal US political economy.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Could they redirect those investments toward public infrastructure in a turn to US-style fiscal mutualism (an investment strategy from the midcentury era of conservative nostalgia)?

I'm...not hopeful...

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Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

Oh FFS

Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay - on.ft.com/42UkLnF via @FT

YouTube video by Business History Conference Xaq Frohlich & Sean Vanatta -- Book talk #bizhis #books

If you missed the American Society for Legal History Virtual Book Club last week, you can watch here the recording of @seanvanatta.bsky.social and me discussing our two books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYe....

Compliments of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social .
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