@petercontibrown.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Financial Regulation, Wharton; Nonresident Fellow, Brookings. Banking, central banking, financial history. Petercontibrown.substack.com
This time of year I am thinking about goals and resolutions. Today’s personal post is about what I hope to accomplish in 2026 after a marvelous 2025. Link below.
12.12.2025 19:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0We’re heading into a potentially wild #FOMC meeting, plus thoughts on a recent Q&A on supervision with Randy Quarles, the digital euro, the scandal of Larry Summers, and Radiohead in Berlin. Take a look!👇
08.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My Newsletter has been a source of great joy and engagement over the past year. Today I describe some changes and reflections as I seek to ramp it up. I hope you’ll join me for the ride – we’re going to start cooking with gas. Link 👇
05.12.2025 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What should we make of Sec Bessent’s proposal for a residency requirement for Reserve Bank Presidents? I’m sympathetic to the idea, but very skeptical of it in the present context. More below.
03.12.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can Kevin Hassett lead the Fed? What is up at the BIS Innovation Hub? Should we be worried about a collapse in American religiosity? And more at today’s Monday roundup. Link 👇
01.12.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s the food holiday. My kids were playing the game “what is your last meal before they kill you” and asked me mine. Today’s post tells the stories behind my choices.
28.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m grateful for a lot this Thanksgiving. I write my list — about my research, my students, my health, my people — at the link below.
26.11.2025 20:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Historian @petercontibrown.bsky.social on Warsh as Fed chair after recent op-ed praising Trump, pushing for rate cuts: "Warsh’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is hard to read. I mean that quite literally. I really don’t quite know what his point is."
24.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Kevin Warsh, a leading Fed Chair candidate, wrote a strange op-ed. I comment on it, on changes in bank supervision, the abuse of financial sanctions, and my preliminary report on my successful (er, mostly; I still can't walk right) completion of the Philadelphia marathon. Take a look!
24.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finished! I’m glad I did it, I’ll do it again, but I gotta say: cycling is so much better!
23.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s race day! And a chilly one for my first marathon in my beautiful home town of Philadelphia
Wish me luck, I probably won’t die.
It’s Q&A time at the blog. I talk about conspiracy theories, how to find good bikes without blowing up your budget, the most critical factor in protecting a marriage (including an homage to my beloved NCB), and more. Take a look and let me know what you think!
21.11.2025 22:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0i think @petercontibrown.bsky.social has previously mentioned his opinion on this, and i am glad that he now write that out thoroughly
I increasingly agree with this sentiment
I think the Biden Administration’s record at the Fed is abysmal. Today’s post explains their former president’s legacy of failure.
19.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here’s what’s on my mind as we start the week, from a new paper on the efficacy of bank supervision to sudden resignations at the Fed to a love affair with my race bike to my decidedly not love affair with my first upcoming marathon.
17.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The emotional and rhetorical posture of our day is exhausted, frenzied anxiety.
In today’s personal post, I respectfully dissent. Link in the comments below.
There is a debate underway about whether supervisors should criticize bank managerial competence.
History supports that very long tradition. See more ar open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
It's time for the monthly AMA -- send me your questions, it's my favorite post of the month.
10.11.2025 21:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
