A very fun conversation on a very new podcast

My friend @marychilds.bsky.social has a new show out today! It's great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEU...

the very first episode of Mary in America is OUT NOW! it's a conversation with the world's greatest Al Roth, about -- his fave, and actually mine too -- "repugnant markets." kidneys! drugs! sex work! this chat has it all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEU...

more mary! the people demand it!

This sounds like a 90s ROM COMS

I wonder if this is a bit like Emily in Paris

look ma, it's my new podcast!! coming THIS FRIDAY! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

truly honored to have been included in the INAUGURAL @bloomberg.com On Books newsletter, recommended by @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/account/news... congratulations and thank you for creating this, @silviakillings.bsky.social

@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social could you please email meee

Barney Frank, in hospice, is onto your tricks www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

the latest @planetmoney.bsky.social is a closeup of the WNBA players renegotiating their contract -- with a pinch hitter (? does this work in this context) Nobel-prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

I cackled. thank you @matt-levine.bsky.social and Katie Greifeld for loving my book, even if it was mandatory <3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Longtime followers have read my complaining about this in increments of 280-300 characters for about a decade so here it is in 1000 words. www.ft.com/content/631a... American healthcare costs drive global imbalances

honored to be a small part of history, helping to establish a new economic concept: Alloway's Antidote, the AI-fueled cure for Baumol's cost disease andrewsiegler.substack.com/p/alloways-a... @tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social @planetmoney.bsky.social

i made a nostalgia post about my time at @planetmoney.bsky.social offtherun.substack.com/p/leaving-ho...

Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of copium after they fat-fingered and got rinsed? If none of that made sense to you, then we have the perfect episode for you. buff.ly/dQdKasz

@marychilds.bsky.social is leaving @planetmoney.bsky.social for a new opportunity: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/c...

I did an episode of Planet Money w the inimitable @marychilds.bsky.social on the crazy world of prediction market mania. We bet on a Trump speech, talk to Kalshi’s CEO, a former regulator & wonder abt perverse incentives & warping reality etc etc Give it a listen!! open.spotify.com/episode/7jE6...

WE GOT TO BE THE PERFECT GUESTS!!! repping @planetmoney.bsky.social and our new book with author-hero Alex Mayyasi thank you @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social for having us on www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPY...

they actually named their company HoldCo. so much respect for that tbh www.barrons.com/articles/act...

"In the final hours of President Biden's term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden's last-minute pardons, according to new data provided to NPR by an analytics firm that examines cryptocurrency transactions." www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n... @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

The real question: which book about dominant currencies will be the dominant currency book?

the @planetmoney.bsky.social book party got written up in the @nytimes.com ! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/a...

Breaking news: Another very rich and once powerful man discovered that he can't bully the FT

How one guy in private equity is trying to do things a lil bit differently -- by giving workers equity in their companies. it's the counternarrative feel-good PE episode we've all been waiting for: www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n... @planetmoney.bsky.social @wailinwong.bsky.social

Excited to read! @planetmoney.bsky.social @marychilds.bsky.social

We can’t take away the emotional blow but we can try to explain why this might have happened!

“Why was I unharmed? Harm me! Choose me! Love me!” @marychilds.bsky.social wrestles with what it means to have been left out of the Anthropic settlement (because they ignored her book).

YOUR PEER PRESSURE WORKED: they put me on the tile for @planetmoney.bsky.social The Indicator's Indicator of the Week this time!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzRF...

“I call her ‘the poor man’s Anna Delvey.’" nymag.com/intelligence... @jenwieczner.bsky.social

A reminder that The Almighty Dollar, a product of seven years of research and writing, a book that dragged me into academia and in the direction of madness, is available on May 19th of this year. People who have read it seem to like it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

oh no. IMF credit outstanding throwing the dreaded bat signal. (chart from no01.substack.com)

they let me on The Indicator @planetmoney.bsky.social -- now on YouTube!! -- to talk about ANTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzA8... @wailinwong.bsky.social @darianwoods.bsky.social

As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar. n.pr/4sdk4je

lol. ok. NOW it's cracking.

You know what I do for a living? I craft narratives that GET ME PAID. So please subscribe to Planet Money+ and listen to me, @marychilds.bsky.social, and @samkesler.bsky.social discuss the latest season of Industry! www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

i really really love Industry. so do @samkesler.bsky.social and @wailinwong.bsky.social. so we made a @planetmoney.bsky.social PM+ episode about how great it is, how closely it hews to reality or not, and our big plans for season 5: www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

@wailinwong.bsky.social @marychilds.bsky.social and I talking INDUSTRY S4 on the latest Planet Money TV Club! We get into the role of short sellers in the market and the real-life parallels to Wirecard. If you wanna listen, subscribe to Planet Money+! You won't regret it www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

at a certain point I think book authors should be exempt from having to compete with the hit viral juggernaut The Body Keeps the Score

At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together "For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

"What motivates these baby-faced New Yorkers besides their bank accounts?" answers itself, doesn't it? www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/meet...

one scientist approached by Epstein asked his mom for advice. she checked around + wrote back: “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here...Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you.” pretty obvious lesson here imo www.science.org/content/arti...

setting aside the, uh, context absolutely iconic thing to say www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

our @planetmoney.bsky.social report from attending a Replication Game -- one economist's proposal for how to help fix science's replication crisis. It was so fun, and so complicated: www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

our great pals at the Indicator did a close listen of Jeffrey Epstein recordings to learn about elite networking www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n... @planetmoney.bsky.social

ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost?

“For a long time, the tech industry liked to think of itself as a meritocracy: it rewarded qualities like intelligence, competence, and expertise. But all that barely matters anymore.” Sam Kriss reports on the next generation of AI technologists.

i'm trying to make "yo" happen offtherun.substack.com/p/on-the-mar...