For consulting engagements or commissioned research, please email me at vincient.arnold@yale.edu.
About this site/blog
The content is discursive, by design. Mostly, this is a site about money and how it interacts with (is part of?) states and policy. It’s not an investment blog (never financial/investment advice); it’s not a political editorial vehicle. Most of the pieces on this site are best described as research notes or columns. There is no cadence; I write only when I think I have something useful to say that’s worth my readers’ time. We’ll talk about central banking, geo-economics (and therefore, substantively, foreign policy and political economy), currency systems, and maybe some other stuff—no promises. Informed/inspired by a background in research in financial markets, an education in policy, and an interest in their intersection.
About me
I’m a researcher at Yale University studying, writing, and thinking about the intersection of money and policy—part finance and economics, part political economy and geopolitics. My current outpost is the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, where I’m pursuing my MPP, and part-time at the Yale Program on Financial Stability (YPFS). Before this, I was full time at YPFS, studying how best to respond to financial crises. I focused primarily on the provision of emergency liquidity—discount window lending, central bank swap lines, and repo facilities—but my research also included emergency capital injections, money market funds, bank capital, and crises in emerging/frontier markets. Prior to that, I was at Cleary Gottlieb on the sanctions desk, doing research on foreign direct investment screening (e.g., CFIUS), sanctions, and export controls for large institutional clients.
My writing has been featured in publications including Central Banking, the Financial Times, and The Economist. My research has been read around the globe by economic policymakers, academics, and investors. Consumers of my research have included market participants like JP Morgan, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, T. Rowe Price, Citigroup, and Standard Chartered; central banks, such as the Federal Reserve, German Bundesbank, Banco de Mexico, and the Bank of Italy; government and intergovernmental bodies like the OECD, the Treasury, the State Department, the FDIC, the European Commission, and the IMF; research centers like Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, the London School of Economics, and the Atlantic Council; and economic and political advisory offices.
If interested in following my work, the best way to do so is to subscribe! You can also follow me on Twitter (X) @ArnoldVincient, or connect with me on LinkedIn. Feel free to reach out via email at vincient.arnold@yale.edu.
Why subscribe?
Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Never miss an update.
