I start mining my database of 1.8 million charitable gifts reported by American foundations in 2025. First up, Harvard. Many billionaires, many multimillion dollar donatioons and some quirks: Harvard football got outraised by Harvard a cappella. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Athletes have been doing "illegal" performance enhancing for ages. Now one event wants it out in the open — and has a unique plan to profit from it. My latest for JohnWallStreet www.johnwallstreet.com/p/enhanced-g... #biohacking | #$ENHA

Excited to have broken through on a long-time project of mine: figuring out a way to aggregate foundation tax return data to see how the money flows. Opening the Trillion-Dollar Black Box: How I Tapped Into Foundation Tax Return Data open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta... #datajournalism

I think @fotoole.bsky.social needs to make nice with Apple's voice-to-text folks.

Colleges look to the pros for admissions help as the demographic cliff comes www.johnwallstreet.com/p/impending-...

Sports and entertainment sponsorship still runs largely on personal contacts and handshakes. A startup backed by some impressive VC promises to disrupt the industry like programmatic sales did to publishing. My first for JohnWallStreet www.johnwallstreet.com/p/programmat... #sportsbiz

Psyched to start writing a regular column on sports and finance for JohnWallStreet. I’ve long been a fan of Corey Leff and the hub for sports business intelligence he’s building. Email me at [email protected] with pitches, ideas or to say hi. #sportsbiz | #mediamoves | #finance

Barron's magazine loves writing about Madison Square Garden Sports. I spent some time on it because, why not?

I asked four AI what America's perfect painting should look like. coffeytalk.substack.com/p/heres-what...

I do a deep dive on the soaring SAT scores of the top colleges. What is going on? Is an Ivy/Ivy-plus school really so haerd to get into now? open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...

Boston just got its first Michelin-starred restaurant and @savvysips.bsky.social got the first iterview with the owners, post award www.forbes.com/sites/jeanne...

NVIDIA earnings saved the AI trade, but clean energy stocks have been the better buy in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...

Blank check IPOs are having one of their best years ever, just three years after imploding. Things are so good, an old favoritie target is reappearing in prospectuses. coffeytalk.substack.com/p/sports-spa...

ESPN is another top name brand to fail at U.S. sports betting as Penn Gaming pulls the plug today. Barstool, Sports Illustrated and Betway have all tried and failed before this. $$PENN $DIS #sportsbetting coffeytalk.substack.com/p/espn-bet-b...

Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials. Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

GOLDMAN DESK: “.. The market cap of NVDA (~$4.86 trn) is closing in on the market cap of the entire Industrials S&P500 GICS (~$4.89 trillion), composed of 79 companies.”

The government says inflation is "just" 3% year over year. But here's why it doesn't feel like that. The actual percentage price increase of some items, from a year ago, in today's the BLS release.

If a business journalist doesn't publish anything, is he still a journalist? I'm on a little place called Substack these days, writing about business and markets of all types. Here are my thoughts on gold's massive rally. coffeytalk.substack.com/p/gold-screa...

Wait, this was a Prince cover?!

That a person that tall can have as calm a body swinging at a baseball is amazing. Dave Winfield almost won a batting title (lost to Mattingly last day pf season, if I recall) and you'd see every joint and limb sway half a dozen times as he swung

Juan Soto will forever lament choosing slightly more historic money over historic money

And he hasn't been fired, has he?

My neighbor & his wife went to Oberlin, so I am totally going to hold this over the--oh wait, they went to Oberlin, they don't care

Overconfident BC fan here (both on the sked this year). Both look suitably mediocre (but entertaining q4!)

You forgot to link the super cut

Tom Clancy's The Things They Carried

Your chart really shows a problem with the start of August. The more accurate (sophisticated) charting would've shown a breakdown starting August 4.

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

Or Germany 1990s

Wasn't too long ago Irish weren't considered "white" (Europe 1980s)

Exciting! Thanks AJ (and this morning's episode was good regardless)

Boo. Unfollowing, Helen

Jesus

Literally all Trump would need to do is subscribe to the Bloomberg terminal and they wouldn't even mention contradicting facts. "Comfort the comfortable, afflict the afflicted" is the Bloomberg way

Who needs a trashcan when you have Devin Williams on the mound?

A payphone

Wait, Bloomberg still does this?

QBs are just being dudes

Forgive the Addazio style phrasing @ajblack247.bsky.social but with the kick game straightened out, everything is possible

But it mainly screws gas prices for New England (where the New Brunswick refineries export to) - all Dem states, so you know You Know Who doesn't care

Pretty sure I become fabulously wealthy if I bet on Volpe swinging one of the first two pitches in a bat

Their best hitter and a Yankee killer. I only wish they did it before this series.

Kelvin looks like a pro, @ajblack247.bsky.social

Trump would really hate if you shared this picture

My first time watching an AUSL game. Do the umpires have a different strike zone in softball because balls nowhere near the played are being called strikes? Otherwise, I'm a fan!

My money is on USS John Rocker www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/nav...

All are welcome, except those who pee

The New York Times really wants to answer this question