Publication day! @seanvanatta.bsky.social and I are proud of this book and hope you’ll love it. Let us know what you think!
25.06.2025 10:54 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk
In Private Finance, Public Power, Peter Conti-Brown & Sean Vanatta offer a new history of finance & public policy in the United States by examining the idiosyncratic way the nation manages financial risk across the public-private divide.
Out June 24. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
12.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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)
09.06.2025 15:00 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Powerlifting through Hysteresis
On strength lost, strength regained, and the scars that shape an economy.
What do powerlifting and economic hysteresis have in common? My latest newsletter explores this connection, building on @petercontibrown.bsky.social Conti-Brown's powerlifting journey and @lucafornaro.bsky.social's hysteresis research. macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/let-it-fai...
10.06.2025 19:08 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
This is really extraordinary. A close friend from South Korea told me over dinner last week that in his mind Korea has only two enemies: China and Japan.
This is starting to change.
31.03.2025 22:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tuesday links
On Fed independence and Franklin Roosevelt, stablecoin legislation, an upcoming conference, and half marathons
Some various thoughts on Fed independence and agency independence, stablecoin legislation, an upcoming conference, and my first real half marathon.
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/tuesday-li...
25.03.2025 18:23 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
First review of Private Finance, Public Power by @stevenkelly49.bsky.social ! Check it out and preorder now!
02.03.2025 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Bank supervision's cyclical history
In their new book, Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta chart the U.S.'s bank supervisory pendulum from the Constitution through the 1970s.
In American Banker, I review (spoiler alert: positively) @petercontibrown.bsky.social and @seanvanatta.bsky.social's forthcoming book on the history of bank supervision in America:
02.03.2025 18:55 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
“As the saying goes, if you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other,” Peter Conti-Brown, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, said. “The Fed is a single stick.” www.semafor.com/article/02/2... @petercontibrown.bsky.social
25.02.2025 16:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fun Dip
My son’s Valentine’s candy triggered a painful memory that ambushed me this week. That memory, his reaction, and when past is neither prologue nor even really past.
Personal post below.
My son’s Valentine’s candy triggered a painful memory that ambushed me this week. That memory, his reaction, and when past is neither prologue nor even really past.
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/fun-dip
21.02.2025 23:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fun Dip
My son’s Valentine’s candy triggered a painful memory that ambushed me this week. That memory, his reaction, and when past is neither prologue nor even really past.
Personal post below.
My son’s Valentine’s candy triggered a painful memory that ambushed me this week. That memory, his reaction, and when past is neither prologue nor even really past.
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/fun-dip
21.02.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monday links - Feb 10
On debanking, Rodney Hood's appointment, Fed politics, Marxist errors, and why we should tune out a bit more.
Monday links where I talk about debanking, Rodney Hood's appointment, Fed politics, Marxist errors, why we should tune out a bit more, and why I cannot get enough of the Kelce-Swift-Mahomes-Reid frowny-face memes.
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/monday-lin...
10.02.2025 21:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's so good, right?
07.02.2025 15:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ozymandias and the ends of empires?
Why Elon Musk's form of kakistocratic chaos will not be the end of American empire
Some thoughts on our political moment, kakistocracy, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias (also the neuroplasticity of teenage brains).
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
07.02.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mailbag time
Send me your questions
Mailbag time at the blog—send me your questions, link here:
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
22.01.2025 22:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A “crypto Glass-Steagal” is worth considering in the US. Like if your coinbase, you can facilitate trading in the regulatory blessed crypto (ETH, BTC) or memecoins but not both
21.01.2025 09:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Monday Links - January 20, 2025
On Bitcoin, Memecoins, Fed and Climate Change, Elon Musk, and Macro Musings
Today's post on what I am reading, including on Fed and climate, Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, memecoins, Musk's knowledge consumption function, and Macro Musings. Take a look!
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/monday-lin...
20.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remembering Christmas 2008
This year the Conti-Browns are healthy, happy, and thriving. It wasn't always so.
In today's personal post, I write about the worst Christmas of my life, in 2008, and the beautiful spring that followed. petercontibrown.substack.com/p/rememberin...
21.12.2024 20:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Monday Links
Thoughts on Trump's proposed Treasury Secretary, the Fed's framework review, why banks fail, John Rawls, and socially acceptable religious bigotry
My thoughts today on Trump's new Treasury Secretary, why banks fail, the Fed's monetary policy review, John Rawls as the answer to the Democratic Party's problems, and socially acceptable religious bigotry. Take a look!
25.11.2024 19:00 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Jay Powell: The Political Central Banker We Need
Powell does not consider himself a politician. We are lucky in this critical moment that he is wrong.
Jay Powell may be the most effective central banker in the Fed's history, a designation I explain at length in my latest below. We may need his skill set in the coming months more than ever before.
petercontibrown.substack.com/p/jay-powell...
20.11.2024 22:44 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
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"Kiah like the car." Banking + fintech editor at Bank Director. Midwestern nice. Bank nerd. Reader, runner, steak + soccer lover. Opinions are my own.
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Independent journalist focusing on economics and global economy
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German macroeconomist. Assistant professor at the University of Maryland. PhD from the London School of Economics.
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Economist at a nonprofit.
Country as hell.
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Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Money, trust, memory politics, central banks, and financial nationalism.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.
Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Views my own.
Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England
Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Law Professor teaching and writing on financial markets and regulation.
Political Economy, the ESG anthropocene, technocracy, legitimacy and more | “Non-profit finfluencer” | @UvA_AISSR @Politics_UvA
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023)
https://stefaneich.com/
Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
Chicago diehard. President & CEO of the Chicago Fed, econ prof Chicago Booth School, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
I do not speak for the Fed or others on the FOMC
Economist, bike commuter, ultimate frisbee player. Studying wages, jobs, and economic inequality. Striving to be part of the solution.
https://www.epi.org/people/elise-gould/
