Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 23/09/2026Here in Ireland, a lot of people drive diesel cars. I’m quite happy to be an EV, given the price of diesel 2110
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/09/2026Inspired by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com's FT Alphaville Substack I brought up the chart of European potato futures and boy is this a volatile commodity! 5513
Reposted by Felix SalmonEmily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Drop everything @felixsalmon.com wrote about the $60 bread www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comThe K-Shaped Loaf of BreadAt RYE by Martin Auer, the bread costs $60 per loaf. The theory behind this gambit makes some sense. 2108
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 17/09/2026I don’t think that opposition to universal healthcare comes primarily from self-employed people buying insurance on exchanges 3100
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 13/09/2026I’m happy about the gate but in what world is Clarkson Street in Tribeca? 020
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 06/09/2026This could be the end of the line for my beloved Dana Designs backpack, which traveled around the world with me and has served me admirably. Dates to the 1980s! 0131
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 04/09/2026What the Frank Gehry tower on Spruce St looks like on the AI-generated isometric.nyc 060
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 04/08/2026One is to do with future rates and the other is to do with the future reaction function? 110
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 02/08/2026D’oh! It barely registered with me that that was an apostrophe rather than a particularly rococo serif 000
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 31/07/2026I think I’m safe in saying that a UK publication would never, ever, ever pick a font that included this utterly bizarre italic J. Why on *earth* does it have a crossbar? Only USian Cursivites will ever understand 4150
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 31/07/2026This Situational Awareness story reminds me that Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium, also failed. California is great at producing VCs, of course, and even PE (Silver Lake) or fixed income stars like Milken or Gross. But has it ever produced a top-ranked hedge fund? 3161
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 30/07/2026www.irishtimes.com/business/202...irishtimes.comIrish economy shrank by 1.6% in 12 months to end of June, CSO estimatesVolatile numbers come on the back of a surge in exports last year 030
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 30/07/2026Irish GDP is notoriously difficult to measure in a useful way, given the degree to which its real economy is financially overshadowed by weird tax structure vehicles, aircraft leasing companies, etc 190
Reposted by Felix SalmonJeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Of course I knew that debt is part of the machinery by which economies run. But that trite statement does not to justice to the pervasive, architectural roles of debt in... *everything*, that @felixsalmon.com points to in this beautiful, mind-bending essay.bloomberg.comDebt Is More Beautiful Than You ThinkFrom sovereign bonds to modern banking, debt is one of humanity’s most elegant and misunderstood creations. 042
Reposted by Felix SalmonSilvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The Bloomberg Review of Bonds, by @felixsalmon.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comDebt Is More Beautiful Than You ThinkFrom sovereign bonds to modern banking, debt is one of humanity’s most elegant and misunderstood creations. 021
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 24/07/2026A story I've been working on and thinking about for longer than I might like to admit -- my attempt to answer the question @matt-levine.bsky.social posed about "what are the aesthetics of debt". www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comDebt Is More Beautiful Than You ThinkFrom sovereign bonds to modern banking, debt is one of humanity’s most elegant and misunderstood creations. 291
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 19/07/2026I mean if both covert to $162 per 6 months then the first option does work out cheaper on a per-year basis 100
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 16/07/2026You could say the same about stock analysts on earnings calls... 130
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 16/07/2026Do you mean they ask the questions but do so in a disrespectful way? Or that they just don’t ask the questions? 100
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 03/07/2026Dean where are you getting your PE of 40? I see 27.5 on the S&P 500 100
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 01/07/2026I really want to listen to the audio version of today's @matt-levine.bsky.social column but only if it's recorded by a New Zealander who pronounces "egg" as "ig" 1110
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 01/07/2026What does this imply in terms of the housing bill becoming law? 340
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 25/06/2026On the other hand in order for this to do any good Ireland will need to build more than 7 new houses over the next few decades 140
Reposted by Felix SalmonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/06/202621/ Total Humiliation. Trump announces Starmers resignation BEFORE Starmer announces it himself. 31910
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 16/06/2026Lovely piece by @nguyenterry.bsky.social on the inaugural CORRIDOR show nguyenterry.substack.com/p/the-art-of...nguyenterry.substack.comThe Art of RewatchingOn Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Crystal Films (2026) at Corridor 000
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 08/06/2026What is allowed in Paris but not in NYC? Obvs NY still has plenty of traffic and ICE cars so that doesn’t cause the pollution? 340
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 05/06/2026No one: Absolutely no one: Park Avenue Armory: Let's expand Music For 18 Musicians from 55 minutes to 3.5 hours! www.armoryonpark.org/season-event...armoryonpark.orgMusic for 18 Musicians: Oct 14–18, 2026 | Park Avenue ArmoryMusical visionary Alan Pierson stages Steve Reich's masterpiece in a durational cycle performed by three generations of musicians Oct. 14–18, 2026. 150
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 23/05/2026Wait he did have a good excuse after all for missing his son’s wedding? 292
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 21/05/2026I swear I have never in my life seen a stove knob that says “simmer” on it 6121
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 17/05/2026Generally in my experience this arises when you’re reading work A, which quotes work B. And B as quoted in A looks very interesting and worth responding to, but can be hard to track down. 200
Reposted by Felix SalmonSlate @slate.com · 13/05/2026Futurist Scott Smith explains why we’re in an age of “risk-maxxing.” slate.trib.al/XrVtsxDslate.trib.alMoney Talks: Risky BusinessFuturist Scott Smith explains the phenomenon he calls “risk-maxxing.” 154
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 12/05/2026Et tu, Carl? I thought you were not the kind of person to compare a stock with a flow 081
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 10/05/2026Often they’re moved to the north side of Canal Street for some insane reason and then just left there indefinitely. 141
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 07/05/2026Did Aldo Rossi do the Scholastic building in SoHo? I wasn’t sure about it when it was new but it’s aging really well 100
Reposted by Felix Salmonnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Pure software brain in the Whoop app: we failed to log your sleep correctly so please start holding real still at night so the computer thinks you’re sleeping 920416
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 06/05/2026I never much worried about the blank side of the tape but the lack of cm markings was always annoying af 060
