New 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...

Buy 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:)

Some thoughts on Warsh's plans and his exposure to Trumpism

Very cool work from the big brain of @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Happy 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).

I'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.

🚨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. 🏦💸

🚨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/...