Senior Advisor, @FDICgov. Former director at the Yale Program on Financial Stability. Still an academic at parties. (Personal views only.)

Joined March 2019
New paper: "Rushing to Judgement and the Banking Crisis of 2023" At the two-year anniversary of the crisis, @thejonrose and I present 7 facts that are overlooked in the standard account of the crisis: chicagofed.org/publications/…
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FDIC Chair Hill on agentic bank transfers: Similar tools exist today and go unused. "There are various services [customers are] getting from the bank—there is a broader relationship—and so there's a lot that goes into the decision of where to put funds." youtube.com/watch?v=rGWeYQ8c…
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Me when @Birdyword disses Succession
Succession wildly too high, Band of Brothers way too low. Didn't know Happy Valley had broken into the US. A decade ago I think received opinion would have put House in the top 20 and its current spot is much more sensible.
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Steven Kelly retweeted
A project of many years with Ken Snowden. The book is about how our system of housing finance developed since the late 1800s. Thanks, Steve.
A mandatory preorder. @thejonrose and Ken Snowden have written a complete history of the American mortgage market. “House Money” releases May 24, 2027 a.co/d/0flE9sJ4
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‘Javier Bardem will star in The Spread as a billionaire seeking “the power to shift the center of economic gravity to Miami — and decide how long the party lasts.”’
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A mandatory preorder. @thejonrose and Ken Snowden have written a complete history of the American mortgage market. “House Money” releases May 24, 2027 a.co/d/0flE9sJ4
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“While many postmortem accounts have asserted that social media fueled the run at SVB […] Charles River Associates analyzed this claim […] and concluded that social media did not trigger the bank run at SVB, and there was no evidence that social media accelerated the run.”
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Jonathan Rose and I previously debunked the social media theory of the 2023 bank runs here:
New paper: "Rushing to Judgement and the Banking Crisis of 2023" At the two-year anniversary of the crisis, @thejonrose and I present 7 facts that are overlooked in the standard account of the crisis: chicagofed.org/publications/…
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And I wrote about it earlier for FT Alphaville here:
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For hawkishness context, today is the 18th anniversary of the Fed holding rates steady the day after Lehman failed. Unthinkable today.
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“Increasingly, the share of queries that are truly closed-weight frontier-model-worthy is declining. Back at the start of the year, three-fifths of its queries were routed through to closed-weight proprietary models. The latest share is just a quarter.”
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In a financial crisis, one of the biggest questions is where can you source fresh capital (e.g., Warren Buffett, sovereign wealth funds, etc.). The ever-creative China with a new one:
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In the next financial crisis, will financial institutions all be calling on Zyn for a capital infusion?
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The natural next step after solving Navier-Stokes
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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We don't have nearly enough narrative history on the current nonbank structures in the financial system. This book will help correct for this. Cohan is always required reading.
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The history of finance can be written as history of associating and de-associating with the name of a bank
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These 10,000 AI agents rn:
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
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All the stats going around comparing today’s long-term yields to 2007-2008 say less about today than just how insanely high rates still were throughout much of the financial crisis. Unthinkable today.
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Given all the Odyssey hype and the ink spilled over the ongoing rethink of the value of forward guidance, I kind of can't believe there hasn't been an overlapping piece...
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19 years since “the complete evaporation of liquidity”
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