Some personal news, as they say: My first book, CATCH THE DEVIL, comes out July 14! I’m hugely grateful to @nytimes.com for naming it as one of the books everyone will be talking about in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

put your dumb money where your dumb mouth is maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

we had two great guests this week on Everybody's Business. @justinwolfers.bsky.social on the shutdown, @zekefaux.bsky.social on crypto. SUBSCRIBE!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

For various reasons the audiobook of @zekefaux.bsky.social's "Number Go Up" is a regular wee-hours companion. I really enjoy his depictions of the various colourful characters in the 2021-2023 crypto scene—but then I'm occasionally shocked to be reminded that they're real people still doing stuff

how @chrisbeam.bsky.social inspired a major chinese movie www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NEW: How fake Taylor Swift ads, a wannabe hip-hop mogul and a blue chip private equity firm turned Obamacare into a health-care hustle *gift link* bloomberg.com/features/202...

I recently went to a fun little conference where most in attendance were central bankers & financial journalists; plus Chris Desan, P. Mehrling, B. Eichengreen and me (?!!). Here’s one of the panels in podcast form thanks to @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Some legit good deals at my schools auction Giants tix, Hamilton tix, under face value Anyone can bid! Ps316spring25.givesmart.com

update on this story Quick Health and four of its top leaders were indicted three days after we published -- federal charges of wire fraud and conspiracy www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

telemarketers are using one weird trick to get around Obamacare rules: fake jobs www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Maybe I should have done a rug pull for journalism?

New story - the loan shark pardoned by Trump got arrested yet again. This time it’s federal www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Excited for this one from @eosnos.bsky.social ! Flo Rida bar mitzvahs, gigayachts and the “Donald Trump of Beijing”

Slate and @lizzieohreally.bsky.social made their own memecoin. It went to $1.2mln, because of course it did slate.com/podcasts/wha...

late to this but this Nick Paumgarten piece on the Super Bowl is so so good www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW STORY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When the first two lines are as great as this... "I'm not going to lie," Sam Bankman-Fried told me. This was a lie. ... it's no surprise the next 242 pages fly by. To understand crypto—or to understand why there is no understanding crypto—you gotta read "Number Go Up," by @zekefaux.bsky.social.

"You think, Well, if I get fired, I can always go out and work on the industry side. What if industry realizes we don’t need to follow the laws anymore?" Nick Summers in New York on Russell Vought's plan to "traumatically affect" federal workers nymag.com/intelligence...

the cyber truck that got egged now has defensive stickers. these are all over it

nyc parents--I highly recommend the Blast Off Kids newsletter. it's how i hear about fun stuff to do blastoffnyc.com

Jon Braun, the Brooklyn loan shark pardoned by Trump, was arrested AGAIN on new charges *gift link* www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

assignment desk--why don't these guys get in trouble if they do so many crimes? bail is not the issue here.... do the arrests just not get adjudicated because the system is so slow? nypost.com/2025/03/02/u...

Giancarlo Devasini, the former plastic surgeon turned billionaire Tether boss, is transitioning to chairman tether.io/news/tether-...

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Reading @davidenrich.bsky.social’s latest and it’s great! Hes one of the best business writers around and this story couldn’t be more relevant now

@annielowrey.bsky.social gold bars ?!?!?! www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

deleting this note to myself... thanks a lot evan ratliff

Jared Bernstein, President Biden's economic adviser, is reading NUMBER GO UP econjared.substack.com/p/what-if-re...

this interview with payments expert Patrick McKenzie was some of the most fun I've had talking Tether www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/zek...

loosie eggs nypost.com/2025/02/12/u...

Want more CFPB news? The agency just fired 70 probationary attorneys in its enforcement division. More TK. Also, ex-FDIC board member Jonathan McKernan has been nominated to for the fulltime CFPB director spot. He was a co-lead on efforts to address rampant sexual harassment at the FDIC.

the latest on Trump's crypto project World Liberty www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

looks like the SEC is standing down in its Binance case blockworks.co/news/binance...

a country made a memecoin! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the book i'm most excited about this year! Mariam's tour comes to Books are Magic on March 11 www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-m...

i probably don’t have to tell you to read @matt-levine.bsky.social newsletter but this one is great www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become

check out the chat on the official livestream of David Sacks' crypto press conference

“When Musk makes rockets, he himself does not need to read all the details about how a rocket would be made" a fascinating @nyc.streetsblog.org investigation www.streetsblogprojects.org/fly-electric...

Howard Lutnick's confirmation hearing is tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congratulations on @chrislhayes.bsky.social book release day, here's Rhoda Feng with our review of The Siren's Call, a book that's part warning, part philosophical inquiry, and part examination of the enfeeblement of attention in the digital age. prospect.org/culture/book...

Gary Gensler, the just departed head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is returning to MIT Sloan School of Management to teach and conduct research on artificial intelligence, finance, financial technology, and public policy. mitsloan.mit.edu/press/former...

new followers: if you came here because you heard me on the radio, i promise my book is more entertaining www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up...

Bloomberg investigative reporter @zekefaux.bsky.social says the Trump family crypto business offers anyone seeking favor with the new administration a legal way to send money directly to the president. Listen: www.npr.org/2025/01/23/1...

new story -- Trump's pick for Commerce Secretary owns a stake in Tether, the go-to cryptocurrency for criminals *gift link* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

these have to be the worst cops and landlord in history a wild story by Ian Frisch www.curbed.com/article/hous...

new Razzlekhan video! released just before she reports to prison www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvq...

it appears the owners of Tether are setting up a new base in El Salvador new reporting from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social elfaro.net/bitcoiners-n...

my colleagues at bloomberg just published an epic global investigation of the trade in human eggs it opens with a teenage girl in Varanasi, India. she was lured into selling her eggs for $180. *gift link* www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...