Well this is going to be interesting!

SYMBOLS ARE MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THINGS THEMSELVES

“If you look at the 1868 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, which invested in emerging markets, all of them are still emerging markets, except America, which is the only one they didn’t invest in.” -Russell Napier

Strait of Hormuz: "the hairpin oil artery" www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

is this good

Fun fact: Close-up magic has never been more popular than it is right now. Here’s why www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

As @emilypeck.bsky.social reminds me, I've been working on this piece for over 20 years. I like the way it came out! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gloriously concise and on-point summary from Walt and Kira. Really helps explain why people like @vandehei.bsky.social get so excited about Claude Code and why 99% of the rest of us do not. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I have to admit this chart surprises me, it's holdings of bitcoin ETFs in bitcoin. I would have expected the recent selling to show up here and it doesn't seem to have done so. dune.com/hildobby/btc...

Hive mind: Is the Washington Post in a better or a worse position today than in the alternative universe where the Grahams never sold it?

Amazingly, seems that Epstein traded sovereign CDS from his gmail account.

Chart crime du jour

These extra 10% tariffs re Greenland are exactly the kind of tariffs SCOTUS is going to find illegal on Wednesday, right?

Please don’t put PAST DUE in red all caps on the very first invoice you send me

I’m a watch journalist now! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you can’t understand the sentence “Although statistical evidence suggests otherwise, these unfortunate events are happening more often” then you can’t understand today’s politics. (I am definitely in the “this breaks my brain so don’t look to me” camp.)

I am begging @hellgatenyc.com to allow subscribers to sign in with a username and password. No one wants to wait 12 minutes for a code to arrive via email.

Wherein I attempt to kickstart a new column called Relative Value Trade: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What’s the German word meaning “the choice-regret one feels after breezing through a bunch of easy 5-point questions in Bloomberg’s Pointed quiz, knowing that the 30-pointers are going to be much more difficult”?

What I really want is for the iOS weather app to show me the temperature in Celsius below 10 degrees C, and then in Fahrenheit above 50 degrees F

Got to go on Slate Money Talks with @felixsalmon.com to talk about my @planetmoney.bsky.social GiveWell episode and ALIMA and the post-USAID world slate.com/podcasts/sla...

As @matt-levine.bsky.social heads off on a well-earned break I just want to point out the degree to which he’s changed the world. 10 years ago, the answer to “Have you seen all the other fraud indictments?” was “no”. Now, thanks almost entirely to Matt, it’s “yes!”

Which bank is this

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Wait did the MTA kill the Bowery J/Z station? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/s...

@emilypeck.bsky.social FTW

A 1,500-word article on the Theremin, mentioning Karen O, Aldous Harding, Erykah Badu, Radiohead, and Brian Eno, but that somehow fails to mention Olivier Messiaen: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/a...

I understand the logic here BUT am psychologically incapable of following it. It’s why I always book an aisle seat, I NEED to pop up into the aisle as soon as the light goes off, no matter how far back I’m sitting. Someone explain this to me!

A Very Special Slate MoneyTM: We talked to Chicago Fed president @goolsbee.bsky.social this week. You can listen here, or see our shining faces on YouTube if you prefer. slate.com/podcasts/sla...

The 1,388-foot Cybertruck that just faceplanted into Park Avenue is actually a bank. My review of the biggest new building in Manhattan: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There are lots of different crime rates in NYC. If you think crime will rise under Mayor Mamdani (or even if you don’t), which crime rate do you think is (a) most important; (b) most likely to rise?

I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

For Bloomberg, I wrote up an amazing trip I took in Italy in 2022. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Baby’s first Bloomberg byline! (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This has to be AI, right? Interesting example of the use of AI in data journalism cc @zachseward.com www.wsj.com/business/air...

Someone explain to me how a restaurant in Astoria can charge $32 for six oysters lifeatmars.com/dinner-menu/

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

How lucky am I? My first ever US Open and it’s Deloitte Night!

“I have a friend that spent 25 grand, he can’t even get a green oyster perpetual” — how on earth did I end up in this godforsaken corner of WatchTok

Has Amazon blocked @netgalley.bsky.social for some reason?

If the art of taxation, as @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says, is to extract the maximum amount of feathers with the least amount hissing, then the stock buyback tax might be the perfect tax. No one seems to have blinked an eye at it.

You know how sometimes you read that a celebrity has died and it’s a surprise because you actually thought they had died long ago? help.aol.com/articles/dia...

"One of my proudest moments as a parent was when my daughter first check-raised me with an ace. As a parent, I’m pleased that I’ve given her the tools to put herself through college hustling poker games, and then go work at a proprietary trading firm." — @matt-levine.bsky.social, ofc

Where can I find a Keeki bread bag in Manhattan?

This is the Paradox of 2025.

I support the $30b pay award to Elon Musk on the grounds that it will force him to pay a quantum of taxes commensurate with his wealth

“In his statement, Mr. Zustovich, the spokesman, said that this year, as in previous years, part of the jobs program involved teaching participants financial literacy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...

When I become Tyrant, pointlessly indicating changes of case with brackets will be outlawed. I have particular ire for those who take a sentence that starts with a cap, then lowercase & bracket it when the cap SHOULD be there at the beginning of a quoted sentence.