Op-eds, White Papers, Reports, Reviews
“The Basel III Endgame and Fed independence,” Brookings, March 13, 2024
“This Bank Proposal Will Damage Our Economy and Make Voters Even More Resentful,” New York Times, April 2023
“The Federal Reserve Cannot Investigate Itself” The American Prospect, April 2023
“Focus on bank supervision, not just bank regulation” Brookings, November 21, 2021 (with Sean Vanatta)
“Did the Fed do more harm than good in 2020?” American Banker, November 2021
“Where is the Fed Vice Chair for Supervision?” Brookings, October 26, 2021
“What can an investment bank teach us about American power?” American Banker, September 6, 2021
“Where are the Biden financial regulators?” Brookings, August 17, 2021
“Rethinking the power of market influencers” American Banker, July 29, 2021
“Diversity within the Federal Reserve System” Brookings, April 13, 2021 (with Kaleb Nygaard)
“What’s next for the Treasury-Fed COVID-19 lending facilities?” Brookings, November 24, 2020
“Twitter and the Federal Reserve: How the U.S. central bank is (and is not) surviving social media” Brookings, October 29, 2020 (with Brian Feinstein)
“Using the Federal Reserve’s discount window for debtor-in-possession financing during the COVID-19 bankruptcy crisis” Brookings, July 29, 2020 (with David Skeel)
“Explaining the new Fed-Treasury emergency fund” Brookings, April 3, 2020
“Restoring the Promise of Federal Reserve Governance” Mercatus Center, January 3, 2020
“The curse of confidential supervisory information” Brookings, December 20, 2019
“How do you solve a problem like Fannie and Freddie? Not by creating more of them“ Brookings, October 7, 2019
“What happens if Trump tries to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell?” Brookings, September 9, 2019
“Can fintech increase lending? How courts are undermining financial inclusion” Brookings, April 16, 2019
“Can Trump Fire Jerome Powell? It’s a Political Question” Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2018
“The Fed wants to veto state banking authorities. But is that legal?” Brookings, November 14, 2018
“John Williams may be one of the best central bankers—but that doesn’t mean he should run the New York Fed” Brookings, July 24, 2018
“The Fed’s Job Isn’t To Make Trump Happy” Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2018
“Why the next big bank shouldn’t be the USPS” Brookings, May 31, 2018
“The Quarles Quarrel Hurts the Fed” Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2018
“Too Many Empty Chairs at the Federal Reserve” Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2017
“The Economy’s Visible Hands,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2017
“The Most Powerful Man in Washington You’ve Never Heard Of” Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2017
“Misreading Walter Bagehot: What Lombard Street Really Means for Central Banking” Essay on Walter Bagehot’s Lombard Street, The New Rambler, December 14, 2015
“To Fix the Fed, Simplify It” New York Times, July 29, 2015