Terrific piece. Must add the latest book from @seanvanatta.bsky.social and @petercontibrown.bsky.social to my reading list.

The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 6mo ago

“Austerity” after the 2008 financial crisis “was a moral, political, intellectual, and humanitarian failure, possibly the single worst and most socially destructive economic idea perpetrated on the world so far this century.” —Trevor Jackson

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*

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

Budget exposes Labour to charges of being ‘high tax, high welfare’ party

For now Rachel Reeves appears to have reassured many fractious backbench MPs

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I use the Em dash--over use it even--and I am not a robot. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

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

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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!

@briandfeinstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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.

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.

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...

Airlines Want a Piece of Every Purchase You Make

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

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...

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. 

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Private Finance, Public Power featured on the Legal History Blog: legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/brow...

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...

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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...

Private Finance, Public Power

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

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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...

Private Finance, Public Power

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

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Jeremy Kress@jeremykress.bsky.social · last yr.

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to eviscerate the leverage ratio on account of the growth of “safe assets” two years after those assets helped cause the second, third, and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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!

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)

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

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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...

I do love this country. It's Braw. www.taps-aff.co.uk

Glasgow, Taps-Aff or Taps-Oan?

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“'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/...

Consumers Show Signs of Strain Amid Trump's Tariff Rollout

Consumer spending has been the bulwark against recession. A pullback could slow the economy.

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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... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Toby Nangle@tobyn.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Reform made huge gains in the local elections. But as well as winning councils, they won influence on £100bn of LGPS pension assets. A US-style war on 'woke investments' looks to be coming to UK asset mgmt. on.ft.com/3ZhOh4j

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

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

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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 . #businesshistory

Xaq Frohlich & Sean Vanatta -- Book talk #bizhis #books

YouTube video by Business History Conference

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Enjoyed the launch event for @seanvanatta.bsky.social’s Plastic Capitalism, a new history of how credit cards transformed finance and unmoored New Deal America.

Want to see how informing consumers evolved as a regulatory strategy across credit and food? Join @comedoergosum.bsky.social next week!

Xaq Frohlich@comedoergosum.bsky.social · last yr.

Join me and @seanvanatta.bsky.social online a week from today for our talk about both our books and intersections between legal history and business history, part of the American Society for Legal History Virtual Book Club, co-hosted with @businesshistoryc.bsky.social : aslh.net/virtual-book...