Felix Salmon

Slate: We have mastered the two-sentence curiosity-gap headline! NYT: Ooh that’s good, we want in on this! Slate: Ha! You think you can compete? How about we give you a THREE sentence curiosity-gap headline?

This booth at a hip new restaurant in Tribeca (yes, the restaurant, the bar is downstairs) should be Exhibit A for anyone positing that GLP-1s have ushered in a post-food era

Here in Ireland, a lot of people drive diesel cars. I’m quite happy to be an EV, given the price of diesel

Inspired by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com's FT Alphaville Substack I brought up the chart of European potato futures and boy is this a volatile commodity!

Drop everything @felixsalmon.com wrote about the $60 bread www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This 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!

What the Frank Gehry tower on Spruce St looks like on the AI-generated isometric.nyc

I 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

This 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?

Of 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.

The Bloomberg Review of Bonds, by @felixsalmon.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A 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...

I 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"

What does this imply in terms of the housing bill becoming law?

21/ Total Humiliation. Trump announces Starmers resignation BEFORE Starmer announces it himself.

Lovely piece by @nguyenterry.bsky.social on the inaugural CORRIDOR show nguyenterry.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Three perfect grafs from @matt-levine.bsky.social

@emilypeck.bsky.social is this inflashe

No 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...

Just found this in Settings. Feels suboptimally high

Wait he did have a good excuse after all for missing his son’s wedding?

I swear I have never in my life seen a stove knob that says “simmer” on it

Futurist Scott Smith explains why we’re in an age of “risk-maxxing.” slate.trib.al/XrVtsxD

Did Aldo Rossi do the Scholastic building in SoHo? I wasn’t sure about it when it was new but it’s aging really well

Pure 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

In Brian Armstrong's announcement of layoffs at Coinbase, he writes that: 1) "non-technical teams are now shipping production code" 2) managers will have "as many as 15+ direct reports" and must "get their hands dirty alongside their teams". Is there any chance this works? x.com/brian_armstr...

Counterpoint: Yes they can

2006; 2026

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I’m not sure @hels.bsky.social appreciates how truly embarrassing this is. Obviously it’s both easier and more accurate to just weigh 20 pinches and divide by 20.

Nvidia's market cap has risen by $1 trillion in four weeks.

You have @felixsalmon.com's permission to stop worrying about private credit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The thing I hate most about the modern internet is emailed 1FA stedda passwords. Email has enormous latency! Let me just log in!

I wrote about the possibly revolutionary idea that folks might want to buy art without taking possession of it: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a 10/10 Bluesky post, perfect, no notes

Did you get a Connections result a bit like this yesterday? Connections Puzzle #1027 🟨🟪🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 If so you fell into Wyna's "Toms" trap: Collins (blue), Cruise (purple), Jones (green), Petty (yellow). But my question is: Why in that case is the result shown in YPGB order?

SYMBOLS ARE MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THINGS THEMSELVES

“If you look at the 1868 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, which invested in emerging markets, all of them are still emerging markets, except America, which is the only one they didn’t invest in.” -Russell Napier

Strait of Hormuz: "the hairpin oil artery" www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

is this good

Fun fact: Close-up magic has never been more popular than it is right now. Here’s why www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

As @emilypeck.bsky.social reminds me, I've been working on this piece for over 20 years. I like the way it came out! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gloriously concise and on-point summary from Walt and Kira. Really helps explain why people like @vandehei.bsky.social get so excited about Claude Code and why 99% of the rest of us do not. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I have to admit this chart surprises me, it's holdings of bitcoin ETFs in bitcoin. I would have expected the recent selling to show up here and it doesn't seem to have done so. dune.com/hildobby/btc...