Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026New Substack talking about QE's funding bonanza to tech startups! Why were investors were so happy to wait patiently while founders burned throughout GDP-levels of cash for +10 years on companies which still aren't particularly profitable? wbateman.substack.com/p/breeding-u... 030
Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Buy my next book (pre-sale) "The Fiscal Fed: How the US Central Bank Funds Government" from Chicago University Press - economics and business division: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Awesome cover design incoming:)press.uchicago.eduThe Fiscal FedThe book The Fiscal Fed: How the US Central Bank Funds Government, Will Bateman is published by University of Chicago Press. 170
Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Some thoughts on Warsh's plans and his exposure to Trumpismwbateman.substack.comCosmetics, Credibility and the Warsh NominationFire-selling Teasury bonds and Estée Lauder's China problem 390
Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Very cool work from the big brain of @bhgreeley.bsky.social 010
Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Happy to share that my next book 'The Fiscal Fed' will be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2026! Cover design pending: happy to share this beautiful poster from the Harvard Law and Political Economy Project (2023). 5235
Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms. 21411
Reposted by Will BatemanJust Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 15/08/2025🚨Current scholarship! In this article, Prof. Bateman explores the communication strategies through which central bankers in Japan and the US downplayed the fiscal effects of quantitative easing programs, raising interesting questions about central bank independence and the fiscal/monetary divide. 🏦💸justmoney.orgCurrent ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easingWill Bateman 131
Reposted by Will BatemanBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 01/07/2025🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 310338