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@zekefaux.bsky.social
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NUMBER GO UP * Bloomberg investigative reporter

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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
excited for Evan Gershkovich's new book! www.wsj.com/world/russia...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Did Putin Really Think I Was a Spy?
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, “This Cursed Beautiful Land,” Evan Gershkovich searches for answers about his arrest while reporting in Russia.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Others have commented @rajakorman.bsky.social has punned, but in case you missed @dael.bsky.social @bhgreeley.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social I am here to tell you: THIS OP-ED is completely, totally uninformed. It's appalling the NYT published it. Short 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit
In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it?
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Big @nytimes.com scoop: Jeffrey Epstein may have left a suicide note (before his first apparent attempt in July 2019), and it's been hidden from public view. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
nytimes.com
Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden from Public View
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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...
propublica.org
They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.
An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
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Stacey Shick @staceyshick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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.
bloomberg.com
Bitcoin’s Long Slide Explained by ‘Number Go Down’
A rising price requires ever-more buyers, and it’s unclear where they’ll come from next.
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
put your dumb money where your dumb mouth is maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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Predictions markets and the suckerfication crisis
Why is Kalshi tweeting like UnusualWhales?
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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
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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 · 01/10/2025
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
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
how @chrisbeam.bsky.social inspired a major chinese movie www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
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.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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 · 31/05/2025
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
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Some legit good deals at my schools auction Giants tix, Hamilton tix, under face value Anyone can bid! Ps316spring25.givesmart.com
smart.com
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Check out our models and keep up to date about the latest smart related news in your own language and region!
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
bloomberg.com
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.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
telemarketers are using one weird trick to get around Obamacare rules: fake jobs www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
bloomberg.com
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.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Maybe I should have done a rug pull for journalism?
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New story - the loan shark pardoned by Trump got arrested yet again. This time it’s federal www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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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
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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 · 28/03/2025
Slate and @lizzieohreally.bsky.social made their own memecoin. It went to $1.2mln, because of course it did slate.com/podcasts/wha...
slate.com
We Made a Memecoin
Diving into the shady, unregulated world of memecoins.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
late to this but this Nick Paumgarten piece on the Super Bowl is so so good www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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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.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW STORY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
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.
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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.
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."
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"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...
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The Lost Do-Gooders
Most Ivy Leaguers in civil service will land jobs post-DOGE. But they may not find a new calling.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
the cyber truck that got egged now has defensive stickers. these are all over it
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
nyc parents--I highly recommend the Blast Off Kids newsletter. it's how i hear about fun stuff to do blastoffnyc.com
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Blast Off Kids NYC
Curating the best kid + family happenings in New York City, so you don't have to.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Jon Braun, the Brooklyn loan shark pardoned by Trump, was arrested AGAIN on new charges *gift link* www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Predatory Lender Freed by Trump Arrested Again on New Charge
Jonathan Braun, the loan shark freed from prison by President Donald Trump in 2021, was arrested for a second time since his release and charged with grabbing a nanny in a sexual manner.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
assignment desk--why don't these guys get in trouble if they do so many crimes? bail is not the issue here.... do the arrests just not get adjudicated because the system is so slow? nypost.com/2025/03/02/u...
nypost.com
Exclusive | Meet the five worst subway offenders in NYC — with 590 career busts between them: ‘Wanted, dangerous people’
A new NYPD pilot program at two city transit districts has shown immediate results — including getting the city’s worst career transit offenders into handcuffs.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Giancarlo Devasini, the former plastic surgeon turned billionaire Tether boss, is transitioning to chairman tether.io/news/tether-...
tether.io
Tether Appoints New CFO to Drive Full Audit, Reinforcing Transparency Focus - Tether.io
3 March 2025  – Tether, the pioneer of the stablecoin industry and issuer of USD₮, today announced the appointment of Simon McWilliams as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as the company takes a historic ...
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
oops
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Reading @davidenrich.bsky.social’s latest and it’s great! Hes one of the best business writers around and this story couldn’t be more relevant now
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@annielowrey.bsky.social gold bars ?!?!?! www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
epa.gov
ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams’ Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags | US EPA
EPA News Release: ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams’ Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
deleting this note to myself... thanks a lot evan ratliff
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Jared Bernstein, President Biden's economic adviser, is reading NUMBER GO UP econjared.substack.com/p/what-if-re...
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What if resistance *isn't* futile??
There's an inherent contradiction unfolding in real time.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
this interview with payments expert Patrick McKenzie was some of the most fun I've had talking Tether www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/zek...
complexsystemspodcast.com
Stablecoins and shenanigans, with Zeke Faux
Zeke reported an IRL game of Where is Carmen Sandiego except she's a crypto-enabled money launderer.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
loosie eggs nypost.com/2025/02/12/u...
nypost.com
Exclusive | Can’t shell it out! NYC bodegas selling ‘loosie’ eggs as bird flu causes prices of cartons to skyrocket
They’re taking a crack at making eggs affordable!
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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Want more CFPB news? The agency just fired 70 probationary attorneys in its enforcement division. More TK. Also, ex-FDIC board member Jonathan McKernan has been nominated to for the fulltime CFPB director spot. He was a co-lead on efforts to address rampant sexual harassment at the FDIC.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
the latest on Trump's crypto project World Liberty www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump’s World Liberty Financial Plans to Create ‘Strategic’ Token Reserve
Chase Herro, co-founder of President Donald Trump’s DeFi project, World Liberty Financial, said the platform plans on creating a “strategic reserve” with tokens bought.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
looks like the SEC is standing down in its Binance case blockworks.co/news/binance...
blockworks.co
What the Binance and SEC's temporary ceasefire means for other crypto cases
The SEC and Binance filed a joint motion to temporarily stay the case.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
a country made a memecoin! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Bitcoin’s First African Adopter Starts Memecoin to Woo Investors
Central African Republic has launched a memecoin in a bid to attract investment to the mineral-rich but impoverished nation.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
the book i'm most excited about this year! Mariam's tour comes to Books are Magic on March 11 www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-m...
the cover of the book Liquid by Mariam Rahmani
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
i probably don’t have to tell you to read @matt-levine.bsky.social newsletter but this one is great www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Memecoin Pumps Are Just for Fun
CBS procedurals, Josh Allen MVP coin, SEC Crypto Task Force, RIP CFPB, volatility and some Treasuries don’t count.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
check out the chat on the official livestream of David Sacks' crypto press conference
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“When Musk makes rockets, he himself does not need to read all the details about how a rocket would be made" a fascinating @nyc.streetsblog.org investigation www.streetsblogprojects.org/fly-electric...
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THE MOPED KING: Meet the Ex-Delivery Worker who Upended NYC Streets
A Streetsblog investigation into a key player behind the city's wild, sometimes dangerous e-bike and moped boom.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Howard Lutnick's confirmation hearing is tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Warren Presses Lutnick on Ties to Crypto Firm Loved by Outlaws
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick on connections he and his firm Cantor Fitzgerald LP have with a company that’s the go-to cryptocurrency of the...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Congratulations on @chrislhayes.bsky.social book release day, here's Rhoda Feng with our review of The Siren's Call, a book that's part warning, part philosophical inquiry, and part examination of the enfeeblement of attention in the digital age. prospect.org/culture/book...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/01/2025
Gary Gensler, the just departed head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is returning to MIT Sloan School of Management to teach and conduct research on artificial intelligence, finance, financial technology, and public policy. mitsloan.mit.edu/press/former...
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Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler named Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School Of Management | MIT Sloan
Mr. Gensler will teach and conduct research on artificial intelligence, finance, financial technology, and public policy.
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Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
new followers: if you came here because you heard me on the radio, i promise my book is more entertaining www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up...
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Amazon.com: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall: 9780593443835: Faux, Zeke: Books
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Fresh Air with Terry Gross & Tonya Mosley @nprfreshair.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Bloomberg investigative reporter @zekefaux.bsky.social says the Trump family crypto business offers anyone seeking favor with the new administration a legal way to send money directly to the president. Listen: www.npr.org/2025/01/23/1...
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