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Regulatory arbitrage

Fed control is about something much bigger than policy rates

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Blame the Fed, too

Monetary policy also contributes to the US middle class’s “Valley of Death”

Dec 10, 2025 • Marvin Barth

The bank that swallowed a fly

The endgame of complex bank regulation may be the end of fractional reserves

Dec 2, 2025 • Marvin Barth

Fiscal dominance: narratives versus reality

Fiscal dominance isn’t new, but where we go from here might be

Nov 25, 2025 • Marvin Barth

What I learned from my father

Eulogy for an ex hired killer and bomb maker

Nov 18, 2025 • Marvin Barth

The Politics of (Mamdani) Rage

New York’s Mayor-elect represents a different kind of rage

Nov 11, 2025 • Marvin Barth

Educational debAIsement

AI may be raising the structural rate of unemployment

Nov 4, 2025 • Marvin Barth

Staggering governing incompetence will have market consequences

Oct 28, 2025 • Marvin Barth

Manufactured consensus

Measuring my distance from consensus at the World-Bank-IMF meetings

Oct 21, 2025 • Marvin Barth

42 & the ultimate question(s) about αI

AI may level the playing field, but only if you know the right questions

Oct 14, 2025 • Marvin Barth

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Overquantification

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Three Rs and a funnel

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Values aren’t universal, but power is

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Why Heinz left Tracy

Aug 26, 2025 • Marvin Barth

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