Zeke Faux

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

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.

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!

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Some legit good deals at my schools auction

Giants tix, Hamilton tix, under face value

Anyone can bid!

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‘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 ...

here's the story about the new charges

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

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.

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 a Weird Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans How a former TV comedy writer’s fake-job loophole could blow up Obamacare.

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?

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

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

We Made a Memecoin Diving into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.

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

slate.com/podcasts/wha...

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.

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

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

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.

NEW STORY

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

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!

Thanks I’ll check it out!

The Lost Do-Gooders Most Ivy Leaguers in civil service will land jobs post-DOGE. But they may not find a new calling.

"You think, Well, if I get fired, I can always go out and work on the industry side. What if industry realizes we don’t need to follow the laws anymore?"

Nick Summers in New York on Russell Vought's plan to "traumatically affect" federal workers

nymag.com/intelligence...

haha thats the same cyber truck

update: someone left a bag of poop on it anyway

the cyber truck that got egged now has defensive stickers. these are all over it

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nyc parents--I highly recommend the Blast Off Kids newsletter. it's how i hear about fun stuff to do

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