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Great discussion here of the evolution of bank supervision by acting comptroller Michael Hsu. Also, killer graphic, don't you think @PeterContiBrown? occ.gov/news-issuances…

“Remnants of the past that don’t make sense in present terms—the useless, the odd, the peculiar, the incongruous—are the signs of history. They supply proof that the world was not made in its present form.” Bank supervision: never perfect; always evolving.

Very excited that my book, _From Label to Table_, is paired with Sean Vanatta _Plastic Capital_ as part of the American Society for Legal History "Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series": aslh.net/virtual-book-c…. Lots of new great legal history books to learn about. Come join the fun!

Undoubtedly the most important--and Robert Bork argued it!

Great review from sara mayeux over Jotwell right in time ➡️ Sean Vanatta gives a lunch talk here Michigan Law School today at noon on his new book, Plastic Capitalism. legalhist.jotwell.com/the-rise-of-cr…

Thrilled about this Jotwell review by sara mayeux, 'The Rise of Credit Cards and the Fall of the New Deal Order'! legalhist.jotwell.com/the-rise-of-cr… Yale University Press #plasticcapitalism

Plastic Capitalism is Monopoly Capitalism. U.S. Accuses Visa of Monopoly in Debit Cards nytimes.com/2024/09/24/bus…

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 Oxford Economic & Social History 27-28 Mar 2025 in Oxford. Deadline: 29 Nov 2024 Financial History Network EHA Economic History Society European Historical Economics Society glocobank.web.ox.ac.uk/article/call-p…

In honor of Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, let's take a look at why he's one of our under-appreciated style icons. 🧵

📢 Updates to the #BHC2025 Annual Meeting Page! 📢 1️⃣ Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-organi… 2️⃣ Instructions for poster presentations thebhc.org/poster-submiss… thebhc.org Sean Vanatta Stephen Mihm Bartow Elmore

See, e.g. HRM the late queen sacking Boris.

“Meticulously chronicled...Sean Vanatta uses the card industry as a case study in the eclipse of New Deal liberalism.”—Sara Mayeaux Jotwell on Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control legalhist.jotwell.com/the-rise-of-cr…

Had a go at the Cobbler today. Weather too poor to summit, but a good adventure nonetheless.

It's called a land bank. We've been here before: jstor.org/stable/2113435

Absolute banger from Brendan Greeley. "This year the Riksbank awarded its prize to a treatment of early modern institutions so selective it functions as a bedtime story for capitalists." The Nobel for Econsplaining - on.ft.com/4f844Iv via Financial Times

I'm really excited that, now more than a decade after conducting them, my oral histories with Alan Krueger about his service on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration are now available through Princeton's Special Collections. findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC273_…

Athens and UGA History Dept friends: I'll be giving a talk next week about my book Plastic Capitalism. It's the story of the rise of credit cards and long-running legal and political efforts to make them safe.(Also of interest to UGA School of Law Terry College | UGA School of Public & International Affairs | UGA) See you there!

What a day to be discussing capital market disciplining of national fiscal policy under the classic gold standard in my global banking class. UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt market sell-off intensifies - on.ft.com/3AhvX27 via Financial Times

👉🏾 The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum recently launched “We Do Declare: Women’s Voices on Independence." Through the lens of economic power, this oral history project explores when, how & why women have sought independence in their own lives. si.edu/newsdesk/relea…