@chafkin
Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of the new podcast "Everybody's Business." Also co-host of "Elon Inc." and author of “The Contarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs.” Msg me on signal: @chafkin.83
Elon Musk is backing "JD Vance 2.0" in Kentucky -- a Thiel connected tech guy who can sling an insult. Tech types love it. Question is can Musk's money convince voters (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"he doesn't judge" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
we did a live taping this week, with great Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith of Business History, talking about the big BW story on prediction markets, and why the current handwringing is nothing new podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Will be talking paramount v Netflix, hegseth v anthropic tonight
Great conversation with Anna on the pod this week about the double tax on black women and why it matters for everyone
Thank you!!!
remember the trump trade?
Wow that’s a great point
I’m sorry this is rich
Tune in!
nice to have a one-day reminder that remote school for little kids is insane.
Some personal news
Get ready for northeast parent group chat rebellion over remote school snow days
new episode! featuring @dieworkwear.bsky.social on how to bring back American manufacturing, and because I couldn't resist, Davos fashion. Also, @svaneksmith.bsky.social and I speak to Ken Rogoff about the whole Greenland thing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Come join us!
lol thank you. there’s a whole podcast of it!
man, on man, there are really a lot of domains where your grandmother's folk wisdom is a million times better than the smartest people in the world's dumbass first principles thinking
uh there's a lot going on in this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...
NEW: The business world largely stayed out of the Trump tariff fight -- incl. some fearing "blowback" for opposing the administration. But with a SCOTUS decision looming, the floodgates have opened, with 1,000+ companies so far suing to make sure they get refunds if Trump loses tinyurl.com/2yms7p24
"white solidarity"
starting to see signs that the alliance between the white house and corporate america is fraying. predict lots more of this if polling stays where it is www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
the weirdest part is the extremely loud insistence that grok, etc are bringing alien super intelligence or whatever when they're actually doing basically lowest common denominator content farming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Well, Trumps biggest donor will be happy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Lol this image www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Bunch of ai news today. Will be talking about it on MSNOW shortly!
Here are 4500 words on the AWESOME POWER OF MICROSOFT EXCEL (gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
legal questions aside, crazy how far the politics on this issue have shifted. there was a time when instacarts position that "worker freedom" or whatever should trump the idea of minimum wage might be popular. hard to think that'll be true now finance.yahoo.com/news/instaca...
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Loved this love letter to Mallrats (VHS edition)
This is such a good point. There is no good reason to use chatgpt for recipes, and yet tech cos are basically forcing it on people in order (it seems) swallow food blogging along with news and everything else
