My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
www.propublica.org/article/okla...
In today's Businessweek Daily, @zekefaux.bsky.social took my prompt of "number go down?" and writes an actual explanation of Bitcoin's drop-off from the fall.
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
Amazing to see the one bill this congress is actually going to pass is crypto
would they be permitted to issue stablecoins under the genius act?
I don't want to spoil it with quotes but this is a great read and insightful
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
haha thanks Rebecca!
Haha one of the main ones just might be related to me!
Some legit good deals at my schools auction
Giants tix, Hamilton tix, under face value
Anyone can bid!
Ps316spring25.givesmart.com
here's the story about the new charges
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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...
if you engage with them, decent chance they will try to sell you one of these!
telemarketers are using one weird trick to get around Obamacare rules: fake jobs
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
i just didn't have it in me to go all the way
hey thanks! you never know...
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”
haha
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...
Photo of Zeke Faux's book, "Number Go Up." The cover has a blurb at the top ("Riveting, Horrifying, But Also Endlessly Entertaining," by Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist); an illustration of a coin with Sam Bankman-Fried in profile, accompanied by the Latin words, "Nihil Valet"; and the subtitle, "Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall."
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.
Thanks a lot Ken!
