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Brendan Greeley

@bhgreeley.bsky.social

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PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton. Working on early-modern Atlantic currencies. Writing a trade-press history of the dollar and a dissertation about the guinea. I used to be a journalist. I used to be a lot of things.

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · Aug 10

I just got a nice note from a stranger saying he'd pre-ordered my book, The Almighty Dollar. That is how I found out my book, The Almighty Dollar, is available for pre-order. Please pre-order my book, The Almighty Dollar. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 21h

I spent a decent chunk of my working life dunking on goldbugs, but ngl, not sure why you wouldn’t have 5-10% in disaster insurance these days

Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 21h

Gold went up on Friday because of market anxiety over tariffs. That anxiety went away over the weekend, but gold is up anyway today. There's something increasingly otherworldly about the rise in gold prices, which are now up 23% since Powell's Jackson Hole speech on Aug. 22...

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 19h

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Iñaki Aldasoro @aldasoro.bsky.social · 1d

Our paper “Non-bank lending during crises” with Doerr and Zhou now available at Review of Finance

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Non-bank lending during crises

Abstract. For a large sample of countries, this article shows that non-banks curtail their syndicated lending by significantly more than banks during finan

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 1d

The next person who sees me in public with my children and tells me to enjoy it while I can gets a vivid description of the absolute slaughterhouse we found after a kid got sick in the bathroom today.

Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 1d

So the Antichrist is just stuff you don’t like?

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no this Annapolitan is sorry to have butted it on your dream then

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

Because it's the best town in America!

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

My wife has already been supportive of one mid-life career change and I'm not inclined to test another

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. And to your point, the BoE has been even more chaste about ever admitting it Bagehots when it's in the mood

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

VaR assumed normal distribution

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

This week while teaching I had a momentary lapse, set down the chalk, turned around and said "Honestly I can't believe I know all this stuff. When I was your age I wanted to be an actor."

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, so insane then

Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 14d

Today while reading I thought "The Fed is open market in the streets, discounts in the sheets" and please for the love of God let me know whether a) this makes sense to you or b) I am insane

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

They burned the cash books

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 2d

For this they stole all human knowledge www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 3d

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash - @bhgreeley.bsky.social here on the problems of US payments and why that means he has to pay with dollar notes at his local store with doughnuts that are “definitional” www.ft.com/content/8766...

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 3d

Brazilian merchants pay just 0.33 per cent for electronic payments!

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

on.ft.com

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 3d

It felt inappropriate to accuse my local doughnut shop of tax evasion

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4d

applications are still open if you are interested in working with me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on the Unhedged newsletter

main task is to try and make me look clever and to compensate for my woeful inability to make nice charts

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 4d

The town of Bowie, Maryland. Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know that’s not how you say “Bowie”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 7d

Also the tulips were beautiful to look at

Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 7d

Lagarde going for the throat here: swap lines.

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