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bendinovelli.bsky.social @bendinovelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Excited to share that my latest paper, "Universal Service by Regulation," will be published in Columbia Business Law Review! The abstract is below. I still need to revise it for some recent developments. So it's not on @ssrn.bsky.social yet. But please reach out if you'd like the latest draft.
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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Great piece by Chris Desan about Fed Independence. She looks NOT at the relationship btwn central banks and elected governments generally, but specifically argues that power over money belongs to the legislature, not the executive: www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
Further your understanding of the economy and find an open environment for generating and discussing economic thought.
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 29/03/2026
Here’s a slightly longer version of my thinking on the social media verdicts. The trouble I see is that the problems with social media are so multifarious. Addictive design is part of the story, but there are so many more pathologies and harms. 🧵
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness. When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I wrote about how unregulated finance is now just, well, finance for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social the center of gravity in finance has completely shifted & our mental models & policymaking approaches need to catch up www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
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Finance in the Dark | Lenore Palladino | Finance in the Dark
An opaque sector is reshaping the US. Only ambitious regulatory reform can check its power.
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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Before we rebuild, we need to diagnose. You could do a lot worse than this (as depressing as it is).
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The Deep Causes of The Shallow State - Administrative Law
Ganesh Sitaraman, The Secular Decline of the American State, 100 NYU L. Rev. 2197 (2025).Michael E HerzA year into the second Trump administration, the 47th president has done a pretty darn impressive...
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Early 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally shut down the CFPB, the newest member of the Federal Reserve system. Jay Powell says nothing. Summer 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Powell says nothing. 2026: Trump admin comes for Powell. He finally finds his voice.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/01/2026
i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Today, @raulcarrillo.bsky.social explains why existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the emerging dystopian world of monetary fiefdoms—a world in which private infrastructure governs without the name of government.
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Game Over: The End of Financial Regulation as We Knew It
Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve something much more dangerous: functional monetary sovereignty.
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asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Digging up roads is 75–90% of the cost of deploying broadband, yet we keep excavating again & again. A smarter approach: install conduit when roads are open. @bendinovelli.bsky.social and my new paper explains why most Dig Once policies fall short & how to fix them cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
22/ Kavanaugh suggests two exceptions: a) The Fed b) Non-Article III judicial officers like Marbury? Kavanaugh has his history wrong, as amicus briefs have explained. The Banks of the US are no precedent of the Fed. Marbury was an executive officer with quasi-judicial powers.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Kav: Why is the Fed different? Sauer: Because you said so.
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
10/ Kavanaugh asks if Sauer can distinguish the Fed from the FTC… A huge question that Lawson & I address in our essay (and also in my amicus brief) Sauer relies on a paragraph in the Wilcox order…
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asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New essay in Politico today w/ @aratip.bsky.social on how Trump's “Genesis Mission” is one small step forward after giant leaps backward. The Trump AI doctrine really just boils down to boosting friendly tech companies. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Trump Is Taking Three Steps Backward in the AI Race
The administration needs to shift focus away from providing chips and datacenters to the world’s richest companies.
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
2/ Here’s my amicus brief in Slaughter that summarizes our argument: The Necessary & Proper Clause is a stronger originalist basis to replace Humphrey's Executor, to limit congressional power, & to confirm narrow traditional exceptions for the FTC & the Fed: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📢Current scholarship! In "The Myth of Credit Card Competition" @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that mainstream reform proposals to curb the high cost of credit card payments by increasing competition are misplaced, and that public utility law may hold the key for more promising alternatives. 👇
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Current ScholarshipThe Myth of Credit Card Competition
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A new paper from Gary Lawson & me: "Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II" Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism. See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II
As a matter of original public meaning, Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits
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asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A few trillion-dollar companies now comprise an AI oligopoly. Nvidia's announcement to invest $100B in OpenAI makes things worse. As I say in TIME, vertical integration is about money, control, and power. Policymakers should reject such combinations. time.com/7322418/chat...
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We Need to Break Up Big AI Before It Breaks Us
When the same few companies own the entire tech stack, they stop competing and start colluding.
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Some were sanguine that the Fed’s structure meant the Fed system could remain independent even if Trump gained control of the Board. But this excellent piece shows how far Trump and his allies could go. These scenarios would have been unthinkable a few months ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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Trump’s Plan to Pack the Fed With Loyalists
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢More scholarship! @bendinovelli.bsky.social's timely paper revisits the Federal Reserve's ostensibly unique status among administrative agencies. It examines SCOTUS' attempt to except the Fed from case law limiting agency independence, with implications for Fed Governors' legal removal protections.
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Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve Exception
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
1/2 Trump should absolutely not be able to fire Lisa Cook. But this is because he should not be able to fire anyone with statutory tenure protections.
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William Weightman @weightman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨 Very excited to share that my note, Municipalities and the Banking Franchise, is officially out in the @stanlrev.bsky.social! The piece explores the role local governments can play in building a more democratic financial system. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/10
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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The final version of my job market paper—about the strategies that have facilitated localized corporate domination at different points in our history—is now out. I'm so grateful to the SLR team and everyone else whose feedback has shaped this along the way! www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/06/2025
The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy, Asad Ramzanali and Benjamin Dinovelli write. The real story is more complicated:
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Red Tape Isn’t the Only Reason America Can’t Build
The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In new drafts on SSRN, both Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli criticize the Supreme Court’s carveout for the Federal Reserve in Trump v. Wilcox. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Supreme Court's Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment
<p><span>On May 22, the Supreme Court carved out the Federal Reserve from its ruling on an emergency application to stay two district court judgments in favor o
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The week in review: Sandeep Vaheesan and @brettchristophers.bsky.social kick off a symposium on *Democracy in Power,* while the Blog’s editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇
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Weekly Roundup: June 6
Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog's editorial staff shares some of our favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus…
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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thinking about SCOTUS' Fed Carveout in Wilcox? Here are the two best things I've read so. far: 1- The Federal Reserve Exception, by @bendinovelli.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 2- The Supreme Court's Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment - by Lev Menand: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Federal Reserve Exception
<p>The Federal Reserve is arguably the most powerful administrative agency that has ever existed in the United States.  Its administrative actions influenc
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
That this claim of principle was a sham has long been obvious to people in the weeds on this stuff. But this is the Supreme Court admitting it!! The radical activism of these cases doesn’t rest on principle. It never did. It rests on policy preference. That’s really, really bad.
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Tejas N. Narechania @tnarecha.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Turning a promising program for bridging the digital divide into an Elon Musk giveaway. Infuriating.
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New JustMoney Online Workshop coming your way! Join us on June 12 at 11:00 am EST for a discussion on Professor @morganricks1.bsky.social's upcoming book chapter on "Financial Market Infrastructure." Professor Ricks will discuss his current draft followed by a group discussion. RSVP here! 👇
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Current ScholarshipJustMoney Online Workshop: Financial Market Infrastructure (Morgan Ricks)
June 12 (Thursday), 2025 at 11:00 am ESTRegistration
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢Current Scholarship! Is the Fed's legal mandate being misinterpreted? Challenging the conventional wisdom, @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that the Fed's sole mandate is to regulate excessive credit. This reading of the FRA has important implications for the Fed's toolkit and policy framework. ➕👇
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Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In the Harvard Law Review, @bendinovelli.bsky.social has a hot new note: The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate.
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The Federal Reserve's Forgotten Credit Mandate - Harvard Law Review
In 2021, prices in the United States and across the globe rose rapidly, reintroducing a concern that had lain mostly dormant in U.S. politics...
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14/05/2025
is the Fed’s business properly to regulate credit, with maximum employment, stable prices, moderate long term rates guidance about the goals of credit regulation, without asserting that credit regulation or the Fed can or should on their own deliver or be responsible for those goods?
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