Layna Mosley
@laynamosley.bsky.social
Political economy of finance; supply chains & worker rights; Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab. @princetonpolitics.bsky.social Co-editor of International Organization. Recovering trail runner, very amateur rower. https://laynamosley.scholar.princeton.edu/
In our new policy brief for the @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social, Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe, Mengfan Cheng, and I explore the domestic politics and regional dynamics underpinning Senegal’s handling of its recent hidden debt crisis. We welcome your thoughts! psfl.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...
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In our latest working paper, Fiona Bare and Hannah Löffler explore what motivates governments to issue green bonds. psfl.princeton.edu/document/876 They divide sovereign issuers into four types: leaders, exploiters, seekers, and out-siders. [1/2]
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Excellent piece here. There is such as thing as the petrodollar, as piece makes clear, but it's only one part of the bigger, more important eurodollar system where any bank can add a liability to its own balance sheet and call it a dollar. www.ft.com/content/be34...
There’s no such thing as the petrodollar
War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil
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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
Over the past few weeks I have been talking with @emilypeck.bsky.social @axios.com about the US Treasury market. I love her Rom-com title. As @laynamosley.bsky.social says the perfect rom-com for debt nerds www.axios.com/2026/03/26/t...
The U.S. Treasury market is like a rom-com
Why haven't bond investors penalized the U.S.?
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Not sure about the metaphor but... The U.S. Treasury market is like a rom-com www.axios.com/2026/03/26/t...
The U.S. Treasury market is like a rom-com
Why haven't bond investors penalized the U.S.?
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Looking forward to welcoming the 2026-2027 cohort of Niehaus Center fellows in July! niehaus.princeton.edu/news/2026/an...
Announcing the 2026-2027 Niehaus Postdoctoral Fellows
Interim Director Layna Mosley is delighted to announce the new cohort of Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) Postdoctoral Fellows, chosen from a large pool of applicants from all ov...
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Indeed. As if tariffs (for instance) weren't doing damage to the US economy & US consumers before February 28.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5mo agoPuffing Trump’s delusions about the economy as if they were on track until ten days ago is peak NYTimes soft-pedaling Trump’s furious unreality and both-sides-ing it with actual documentable reality
China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
Opinion | America Has an Edge Over China. Why Won’t We Use It?
American manufacturing prowess won’t be restored without bringing new technologies to the factory floor.
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Dear students, spellcheck is no substitute for proofreading. (My favorite error, throughout a student's paper, remains "trade surpluses and defecates.")
Erin Gallagher@3r1ng.bsky.social · 5mo agoI forgot the link rutherford.house.gov/media/press-... incredible stuff from the stupidest timeline
A lot of people are looking at this as insider trading but it's an even bigger issue for national security if there was advance warning of air strikes.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 5mo agoAs US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
👇🎯 Again, neither ___ is Evil, nor ___ does Very Bad Things, nor ___ is Maybe Still Trying to Get Nuclear Weapons are justifications for what is happening now. Lots of folks & organizations are telling on themselves by revealing preferences for 👇 as the general principle. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Dean Barker@deanbarker.bsky.social · 5mo agoWith Venezuela and Iran, the President has normalized one country removing the leader of another whenever they like and because they can, with no reason, no wrong or harm suffered to justify it. It strikes me that the world is far more dangerous now with this as a new normal for nations.
When you've decided that expertise doesn't matter -- and indeed, isn't wanted -- in government, this is what you get.
The notion that this is a war to "defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats" from Iran is simply fantastical. This is a straight-up preventive war a la Iraq 2003. www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/u...
Trump releases video message on strikes against Iran | CNN
In a video posted to Truth Social, President Donald Trump encouraged Iranians to seize control of their government when US military operations conclude. He also warned American lives may be lost as a ...
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Beginning to think he *actually* doesn't understand who pays tariffs. Not even who pays them in terms of pass-through, but who pays them when goods are imported... “It doesn’t make sense,” Mr. Trump said on Friday, “that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades.... [1/2]
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW: The Trump administration took steps late Friday to try to delay the legal proceedings on tariff refunds by as much as four months www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
A few years ago, our local middle school changed its name. After much discussion of for whom it might be renamed, the school board decided to just go with "Princeton Middle School." Hilarity ensues.
Not quite the regime change we've been hoping for.
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn just 25 hours, the U.S. has had four tariff regimes: 1. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) 2. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs 3. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% 4. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% + 5%
First para of the order imposing Section 122 tariffs warns that currency depreciation & balance of payments deficits "can, among other things, endanger the ability of the United States to finance its spending, erode investor confidence in the economy, and distress the financial markets." [1/2]
"Consulting historian" is a great line for one's annual faculty activities report. @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
Brent Staples@bstaples.bsky.social · 6mo agoBad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Two fast fashion retailers battling to capture the market for trendy trousers. Pleated Rivalry
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe two best chairs salesmen in the county secretly pine for each other. Seated Rivalry.
Judge Reyes: Noem may say what she wants, but that doesn't make it true and it doesn't make her actions legal.
Krish O'Mara Vignarajah@krishvignarajah.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnother big win for the rule of law! Federal judge just blocked the end of TPS for Haiti, which was supposed to go into effect tomorrow. Violence and unrest remains prevalent in Haiti and this decision keeps more than 350k people safe while the case makes its way through the courts.
