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Democratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve

By Christine Desan

Mar 2026

As the Supreme Court’s unitary executive theory reaches the Federal Reserve, a deeper constitutional question comes into view: who holds the power to make money?
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Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto, Democrats and Deregulation

By Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Matthias Lalisse, and Paul Jorgensen

Jan 2026

After FTX’s collapse, crypto looked finished. Yet Washington revived it, culminating in Trump’s GENIUS Act and a surprising Democratic shift. How much did money and affluence predict pro-crypto votes, amid widening deregulation and cyber risk?
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Working Paper Series
A Theory of How and Why Central-Bank Culture Supports Predatory Risk-Taking at Megabanks

By Edward J. Kane

Dec 2015

This paper applies Schein’s model of organizational culture to financial firms and their prudential regulators.
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Conference paper
Debt Overhang and Capital Regulation

By Anat Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer

Apr 2012

We analyze shareholders’ incentives to change the leverage of a firm that has already borrowed substantially. As a result of debt overhang, shareholders have incentives to resist reductions in leverage that make the remaining debt safer.