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Brendan Greeley

@bhgreeley.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. The Almighty Dollar from Crown Currency available May 19! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/63…

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 5h
Treasuries are losing their moneyness - column here from @bhgreeley.bsky.social. "For four decades, US government bonds have been both securities and money. They may no longer be that special" as.ft.com/r/9879499c-4...
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Treasuries are losing their moneyness
For four decades, US government bonds have been both securities and money. They may no longer be that special
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 21h
My daughter asked me for a puppy in a cute way, I posted it, JK Rowling found it, retweeted and then celebrities using #teampuppy started telling me to get my girl a dog
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning like every morning I made sure my son had a filled water bottle in his backpack, because the middle school tells parents there's lead in the pipes and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I wish we could actually solve actual problems in America.
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to OAH members Elizabeth Ellis and Ariel Ron on being named MacArthur Fellows! To learn more about Dr. Ellis and Dr. Ron, plus the other 2026 Fellows, please go to www.macfound.org/programs/awards/fe….
Portraits of Elizabeth Ellis and Ariel Ron, congratulating them for being named MacArthur Fellows.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tap on the Line at Kew is a dangerous way station on the way home from the National Archives don't ask me how I know
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Guy Sucked is a truly great podcast and you should vote for it. Vote for it!
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All new communications technologies are sold as good for health, education, inequality and democracy. All new communications technologies then turn out to be perfectly optimized for demagogy and porn.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the dollar system is "a global panopticon and choke point for everyone except criminals"
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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The gap between rates on new mortgages and existing ones is growing again, which I think is the home sales equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Chart showing the average rate on new US 30-year mortgages and the effective interest rate on existing mortgage debt since 1977. The two lines are usually quite close together, with new-mortgage rates significantly higher only in the early 1980s and since 2022.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026
"the campaign"
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buy this now, if you don't you'll just encounter it for the next year and think "I should buy this," and the mental load will bum you out
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh good. Prize list season. A brand-new way to feel terrible about myself.
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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is Samuel F.B. Morse erasure.
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am the code guys.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hammurabi, the only guy in history who could credibly say "I am the code"
A stele containing the text of the Code of Hammurabi in the Louvre
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honestly one of the best reviews of The Almighty Dollar I've gotten so far
An online review that reads "I just have to say, it definitely wasn't the point of the book, but the way he explained Eurobonds helped me pass the SIE exam."
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I love knowing that someone's about to get a dream job
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congrats to everyone involved! 🍾
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's hardly a new observation, but with foreign private sector capital flows into the US absolutely bodying the official sector, the "reserve currency" conception of the dollar is increasingly inappropriate. It's a "portfolio" or "funding" currency now, and has been for a while:
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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That is the unforgivable problem with terror. It's a performance you have to remember for ever. I am one person, of thousands standing there, 20 years ago. I lived and walked away, and that moment sometimes still arrests me. I remain captive, in a seat in the dark. A group of young men staged a play about how virile and important they were, and one small consequence of all that destruction is that they wasted years of my life. I get to have a wife and children. I used to think that meant I won. I also still live with long bouts of depression. I've got better at managing it, but I didn't win. Nobody wins.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On September 11th my German family called and called but couldn't get through, then reasoned to each other that there was no way I'd shown up to work in downtown Manhattan on time, so I was probably fine.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
America is losing its captive creditors - oped here from Benn Sheil of the CFR. With a greater share of price-sensitive investors holding Treasuries, the US is paying a higher debt cost www.ft.com/content/a441...
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Ea-nāṣir @jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This was a good book not just because the story is interesting, but Greeley is a good storyteller
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At 4:30 EST today I'll be giving a talk at Princeton's Julis-Rabinowitz Center about how America claimed sovereignty over its almighty dollar, and how that sovereignty is constantly under threat. Streamable! Moderated by @colbylsmith.bsky.social! history.princeton.edu/news-events/...
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The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money
Open to the Public and the Princeton University Community; Livestream available on Media CentralIn this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Br...
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Having that great and maddening experience where I dig into a bunch of old documents, absolutely convinced of what I will find, and instead find something completely different and have to understand and then write it all up from scratch. I was very wrong! But I was very wrong in a cool way!
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was one of so many people near the South Tower when it fell. I've been thunking about it this week, as I know a lot of people have. A couple of years ago I finally figured out how to write about how it follows me still. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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‘I am still captive’: surviving 9/11
When the Twin Towers fell, Brendan Greeley ran. This is his story
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bill of exchange flow charts are my love language
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The board released a paper considering whether and how to add tokenized deposits and payment stablecoins to monetary aggregates OH IT IS ON
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you, Supreme Court, for making it possible for companies to force me to sign my legal rights away in exchange for the privilege of using their products.
Details of an arbitration clause in an end-user agreement for Spotify
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Okay, I will admit to being proud of this paragraph:
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The cover of the National Lampoon, with a revolver pointed at an adorably apprehensive dog and the words "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog."
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It is really, really hard to mess up the American economy. We are inventive and we like to take risks and we like to buy things, and boy does it take a lot to break that.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 03/09/2026
People really want Trump to be an economic disaster and sorry, it's just not playing out that way. There's no doubt his policies have reduced growth relative to an alternative baseline, but the US economy is in great shape for the near to medium term, even more so given everything he's thrown at it.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/09/2026
TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: The excellent Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net tells me that George McClellan was a racist coward who deserves to have his name cursed forever. So we tried our best to do that.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Welcome (back) to the Institute for Advanced Study @benbraun.eurosky.social. There couldn't be a more timely topic than "Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy" and we are fortunate to have you leading the School of Social Science community in this crucial discussion.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The ONLY thing these prediction gambling scams should be allowed to pay out on is whether or not the contractor is going to show up and how many days late he will be.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Bagehot Pageant
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
…loyalists, quacks, and quislings… A banger here from @crampell.bsky.social
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Opinion | Wall Street Loved Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh. Not Anymore. (Gift Article)
We are approaching a credibility crisis with Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh leading our economy.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
but then you graduate only to find out that none of the big clown firms are hiring
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
everyone in Baltimore is tasked with watching over John Waters, age 80, today
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The real signal summer's over.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The only camel who passed through the eye of the needle
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Read the room, guys
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a legend
rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A person so miraculous she made Siskel & Ebert agree ♥️
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No, like, literally EVERYONE loved Dolly.
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