For now Rachel Reeves appears to have reassured many fractious backbench MPs

This post introduces Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click ...

The following is an excerpt from "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, now out at Princeton University Press. 

New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

Peter Conti-Brown is a historian and legal scholar of the Federal Reserve System, and an associate professor at the

Consumer spending has been the bulwark against recession. A pullback could slow the economy.

Between 1940 and 1965, state-level officials changed the relationship between two pillars of the postwar social contract: secure retirement and modern public sc

Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

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Investors say misfiring ‘basis trades’ are piling pressure on US government bond market

President Trump and his advisers say his policies may cause short-term pain but will produce big gains over time. Many economists are skeptical of those arguments.

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process   “As much as it enriches our scholarship, Vanatta...

Human capital in financial regulation and supervision. Volume 20, Issue 1 of Management & Organizational History

In their new book, Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta chart the U.S.'s bank supervisory pendulum from the Constitution through the 1970s.

What exactly do savers get out of investing in the UK, other than a patriotic glow?

Consumers are ‘tapped out’ after years of high inflation and as pandemic-era savings have evaporated

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking risk

The story of credit cards is the story of industry versus regulators. Industry won.