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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Everybody's Business

Business News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Bloomberg Businessweek brings you a smart and fun chat show about all things...business. Hosted by award-winning business and economics journalists Max Chafkin...

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Andrew Burke @ajlburke.bsky.social · 7d

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

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 7d

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.

More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Jul 16

Amazing to see the one bill this congress is actually going to pass is crypto

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Jun 17

would they be permitted to issue stablecoins under the genius act?

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Jun 9

I don't want to spoil it with quotes but this is a great read and insightful

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Jun 9

how @chrisbeam.bsky.social inspired a major chinese movie

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations

A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.

www.theatlantic.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Jun 7

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...

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · May 31

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
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Iñaki Aldasoro @aldasoro.bsky.social · May 31

Check out the latest Odd Lots, featuring @rlspang.bsky.social, Stefan Ingves & yours truly, a recorded panel of a great conference on “how to write the biography of a currency” hosted by Harold James & @bhgreeley.bsky.social at Princeton in early May open.spotify.com/episode/3Bzs...

How Do We Define a Currency?

open.spotify.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 28

haha thanks Rebecca!

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 17

Haha one of the main ones just might be related to me!

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 17

Some legit good deals at my schools auction

Giants tix, Hamilton tix, under face value

Anyone can bid!

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 16

here's the story about the new charges

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Boiler Room’ Operator Quick Health Charged by US With Fraud

Quick Health, a Pennsylvania call center, was indicted along with its former chief executive and three other leaders, accused of signing up tens of thousands of customers for cheap, bare-bones health ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 16

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...

Telemarketers Are Using a Weird Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans

How a former TV comedy writer’s fake-job loophole could blow up Obamacare.

www.bloomberg.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 5

if you engage with them, decent chance they will try to sell you one of these!

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · May 5

telemarketers are using one weird trick to get around Obamacare rules: fake jobs

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Telemarketers Are Using a Weird Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans

How a former TV comedy writer’s fake-job loophole could blow up Obamacare.

www.bloomberg.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Apr 22

i just didn't have it in me to go all the way

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Apr 21

hey thanks! you never know...

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Apr 3

Maybe I should have done a rug pull for journalism?

Slate @slate.com · Apr 3

What Next: TBD dove into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.

Here, host @lizzieohreally.bsky.social explains how the team came up with their own memecoin and the reception it received.

👉 Listen to “We Made a Memecoin” on What Next: TBD for more: link.chtbl.com/WNTBDEp328

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Apr 4

New story - the loan shark pardoned by Trump got arrested yet again. This time it’s federal

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Loan Shark Freed by Trump Said to Be Arrested by Federal Agents

Jonathan Braun was arrested by US Marshals last Saturday, according to people familiar with the matter

www.bloomberg.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Mar 29

Excited for this one from @eosnos.bsky.social !

Flo Rida bar mitzvahs, gigayachts and the “Donald Trump of Beijing”

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Mar 28

haha

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Mar 28

Slate and @lizzieohreally.bsky.social made their own memecoin. It went to $1.2mln, because of course it did

slate.com/podcasts/wha...

We Made a Memecoin

Diving into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.

slate.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Mar 17

late to this but this Nick Paumgarten piece on the Super Bowl is so so good

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Fan’s Notes on the Spectacle of Super Bowl Week

There’s the game itself, and then there are the parties and promotions, a glad-handing orgy for the sports-entertainment complex.

www.newyorker.com

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · Mar 13

NEW STORY

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Crypto Venture Has Talked to Binance About Doing Business

Discussions between the family’s World Liberty Financial and the world’s largest digital-asset exchange are said to include possible work on new stablecoin.

www.bloomberg.com

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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · Mar 13

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.

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