felix salmon

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Ideas & Culture writer, Bloomberg. Host, Slate Money. Author, The Phoenix Economy (May 9, 2023).

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Feb 25, '21	Genuine question: Was there literally anything on Quibi as well constructed as this kid’s zero-budget TikTok	108×	0	42k	7.4k	2.3k
2	Mar 14, '23	NAILED IT: “In five years a number of banks will not be around because of blockchain technology.” -Joseph DiPaolo, Signature Bank CEO, 2018	25.6×	946k	4k	741	159
3	Jul 21, '19	It’s like they go out of their way to be dastardly	24.4×	0	6.7k	2.5k	109
4	Oct 1, '17	25 years ago, Kim Jong Un was 8 years old	21.9×	0	7.4k	2.4k	0
5	Mar 30, '20	Because we normally only tip people we deal with directly and make eye contact with, we end up not tipping people doing no-contact deliveries.	14.4×	0	3.1k	1.5k	28
6	Mar 29, '22	Donald Trump, when borrowing money, claimed his Trump Tower apartment was 30,000 sqft and worth $327m. In reality it was less than 11,000 sqft and the valuation was exaggerated by	11×	0	3.3k	1.1k	61
7	Oct 25, '15	Vine was made for this	8.8×	0	1.8k	1.7k	0
8	Jan 11, '18	This is apparently the first time the word “shithole” has ever appeared in the NYT. Thanks, Trump.	7.7×	0	2.8k	737	0
9	Feb 27, '20	This is the most glorious chart of all time	7.7×	0	1.7k	521	55
10	Jan 28, '17	Just realized that Trump’s immigration ban also applies to active-service members of the US military. He’s completely insane.	6.9×	0	1.4k	1.2k	0
11	Nov 14, '13	I’m holding out hope this headline was deliberate ^@albertocairo	6.3×	0	547	1.5k	0
12	Jul 7, '17	Trump is meeting key world leaders at the G20 summit. He forgot to book a hotel.	5.6×	0	1.3k	593	0
13	Apr 11, '15	I feel like this chart is the only one that matters	5.3×	0	790	1.1k	0
14	May 19, '17	Act 1: Donald Trump finds himself on a plane for 14 hours with a senior aide under FBI investigation and a bunch of journalists.	4.9×	0	1.5k	552	0
15	Mar 20, '20	If you want to understand what needs to happen, and why it doesn’t require lockdown for the next 18 months, read this. It’s really, really good.	4.6×	0	1k	531	177
16	Jan 23, '19	Tim Cook and Satya Nadella having dinner in Davos with Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil	4.6×	0	827	492	16
17	Mar 6, '18	How many days did Gary Cohn stay on beyond the one-year minimum tour for his Goldman stock sale to go through tax-free?	3.7×	0	1.2k	400	1
18	Feb 11, '19	<joke>	3.5×	0	1.1k	422	9
19	Sep 17, '15	Apple iOS Ad-Blocking Explained	3.5×	0	587	728	0
20	Jul 27, '18	Have we finally achieved Gategate?	3.4×	0	1.4k	244	5
21	Jun 11, '24	Am I reading this correctly? If you take the subway to Howard Beach station (A) then the AirTrain to JFK will cost you $8.50, but if you drive a car to the Lefferts Blvd station (B	3.3×	123k	514	20	18
22	Dec 11, '15	correction du jour	3.3×	0	558	670	0
23	Sep 3, '17	I literally can’t think of a better way to drive the US economy into a depression than a “no trade whatsoever with China” policy	3.2×	0	883	404	0
24	Nov 28, '18	Epstein’s lawyers, it should be noted, include Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, because, of course they do	2.8×	0	955	287	5
25	Mar 25, '20	omg	2.8×	0	699	265	25
26	Feb 7, '19	Nice one @lpolgreen	2.7×	0	1k	220	3
27	Feb 22, '17	it’s fine, everything’s fine	2.4×	0	593	352	0
28	Jul 29, '17	Reminder: This is the man who said of me, "even his wife hates him"	2.4×	0	974	189	0
29	Feb 19, '17	yep, really	2.4×	0	565	306	0
30	Feb 24, '21	How to become a billionaire: 1. Believe in your dreams 2. Work hard 3. Never give up 4. Invest $180 million across 3 highly speculative investments	2.3×	0	990	119	13
31	Sep 4, '19	I was asked to go back on MSNBC today to talk about the utter chaos in the UK, but then after I returned to 30 Rock they bumped me because of breaking news about how POTUS uses a S	2.3×	0	1.1k	107	0
32	Nov 21, '17	To put this in context: There are 125 million households, in total, in America. Under the GOP plan, MOST households will see their taxes rise.	2.3×	0	452	405	0
33	Oct 4, '21	Media investors: Next time a site proudly tells you that it’s not reliant on Facebook for traffic, ask to see their traffic figures for October 4, 2021	2.2×	0	926	154	29
34	Oct 12, '19	Nothing to see here, just Jes Staley, Bill Gates, and @LHSummers palling around with Jeffrey Epstein at Epstein’s mansion post-conviction	2.2×	0	602	276	22
35	Feb 17, '21	The median customer account at Robinhood has $240 in it	2.1×	0	904	81	17
36	Aug 31, '24	@metalgearobama @jbarro The weird thing is it doesn’t even make sense! If the public wants higher-quality bronze medals they’ll spend moar $$ on moar copper, driving the price up n	2.1×	77k	804	2	11
37	Jul 28, '17	It took me a long time to realize this really is, deeply, what the Republicans hate: the very idea of insurance, and risk pools.	2.1×	0	574	216	0
38	May 3, '20	I suspect that the US is deeply split right now between people who think that a persistent plateau of 2,000 deaths per day is prima facie unacceptable, and those who think that it’	2.0×	0	613	174	16
39	Mar 20, '20	It's the market's job to absorb losses at a time like this. You're an investor in stocks and bonds, you're taking risks. And the risk of a pandemic is one of the risks you're takin	2.0×	0	721	180	20
40	Jan 31, '20	I really don't think I'm exaggerating when I said that today, more than any other day, marks the end of the world as we knew it. (thread)	1.9×	0	648	134	28
41	Nov 24, '20	This is astonishing, from @zeynep’s newsletter: 91% of Democrats think that the 2020 election was free and fair, up from 43% in 2016	1.9×	0	450	115	41
42	Jan 29, '17	I’m not a big college sports fan but the ACLU team is crushing it tonight	1.9×	0	650	208	0
43	Oct 16, '17	This is the best thing I’ve read about cryptocurrencies in a very long time	1.8×	0	517	218	0
44	Apr 27, '21	Is there a name for the 10-minute period before a meeting starts where you’re like, there’s no point in getting to work on X, because I have a meeting in 10 minutes	1.8×	0	833	32	7
45	Jul 22, '16	This is literally the ugliest, most terrifying political speech I have ever seen in my life.	1.8×	0	451	265	0
46	Jun 6, '21	Saying the quiet part very, very loud	1.8×	0	449	88	61
47	Dec 24, '16	I’ve seen variations of this over the years, but this is probably the best one yet	1.7×	0	394	282	0
48	May 4, '21	It looks like @Reuters has just vaporized all of its old blog content, including many years of my work, with no warning.	1.7×	0	573	115	29
49	May 29, '20	This "Catherine the Great" story in Tatler just broke my mind so I am going to have to tweetstorm it sorry	1.7×	0	400	108	91
50	May 17, '22	Admitting that you knew about the problem when you signed the binding contract to buy at $54.20 is not normally a great way of being able to get out of the binding contract to buy	1.7×	0	786	78	10
51	May 22, '17	What would you do if you worked at the White House and knew that you were going to be fired in a few days?	1.7×	0	466	175	0
52	Nov 12, '22	Whom among us hasn't accidentally used a company we controlled to transfer $8 billion to our own personal hedge fund, easy mistake to make, probably nothing	1.7×	0	603	137	16
53	Mar 14, '21	This is every big sister and little brother	1.7×	0	633	94	46
54	Feb 12, '19	Your #KaraJack tl;dr: Jack: We need to stop X. Kara: What specifically are you doing to stop X? Jack: We haven’t done enough to stop X. We’re thinking hard about how to do that. Ka	1.6×	0	698	97	6
55	Dec 5, '20	Someone at ICE thought it would make sense not only to subpoena BuzzFeed asking them to reveal confidential sources, but also to ~request~ that they not report on the subpoena. Lol	1.6×	0	567	151	4
56	Jul 3, '19	The Faculty of Physics of Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev	1.6×	0	688	96	6
57	Aug 4, '17	This Trump real estate deal looks awfully like criminal tax fraud	1.6×	0	411	226	0
58	Feb 27, '20	For those of us who have been long since 1935, this is very reassuring	1.6×	0	766	57	7
59	Jun 23, '20	In re NYT vs @slatestarcodex, this seems relevant: According to the NYT itself, there is no one-size-fits-all policy. Which makes it even more difficult to understand why the NYT w	1.6×	0	553	137	16
60	Jul 3, '20	Who asked for this	1.6×	0	565	68	16
61	Dec 12, '19	Jeremy Corbyn could yet go down in history as the hero responsible for an independent Scotland and reunited Ireland	1.6×	0	560	142	7
62	Jan 24, '21	Investing for dummies	1.6×	0	506	84	39
63	Nov 8, '22	To put the $6b in 72 hours into context: The biggest bank run in US history was WaMu in 2008, which totaled $16.7b in 9 days	1.5×	0	471	138	49
64	Nov 28, '18	Huge Miami Herald Jeffrey Epstein investigation:	1.5×	0	404	199	8
65	Jan 2, '22	Doing a single bitcoin transaction has a larger carbon footprint than flying across the Atlantic.	1.5×	0	437	170	25
66	Oct 28, '17	There’s a lede	1.5×	0	387	216	0
67	Dec 8, '18	@Scaramucci will you tell me, then? Did you or did you not say what @SchreckReports says that you said?	1.5×	0	825	26	1
68	Oct 23, '17	Harvey Weinstein’s NDAs were so shrouded in secrecy that even the signatories weren’t allowed to keep a copy of them	1.5×	0	352	215	0
69	Aug 22, '17	@margarita @skenigsberg why was she tagging all the #brands she was wearing? Is it so they’ll give her free clothes? And if so, is that legal?	1.5×	0	679	68	0
70	Apr 28, '17	Someone, somewhere, thought a Bret Stephens op-ed was worthy of a push notification. That person was wrong.	1.4×	0	537	127	0
71	May 14, '22	I wrote this morning about specific performance, and why Elon Musk can't just walk away from the Twitter deal while paying a $1 billion termination fee. A 🧵:	1.4×	0	384	94	67
72	Nov 1, '20	There is such a thing as a St Berdoodle (yes, a St Bernard - Poodle cross) and all I am going to do for the rest of the day is find pictures of these giant floofs	1.4×	0	538	66	13
73	Feb 2, '21	Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice when offered it by Trump	1.3×	0	478	101	5
74	Jan 28, '21	Fascinating to see all of the anger being directed at @RobinhoodApp rather than the other brokerages who did the same thing. Also, does anybody believe they all just independently	1.3×	0	481	89	4
75	Sep 1, '20	Happy 20th birthday to one of the all-time great pieces of industrial design. (h/t @mcwm)	1.3×	0	469	111	4
76	Nov 28, '18	WHAT?	1.3×	0	410	154	1
77	Dec 18, '18	“We’re replacing the Oath brand with a new brand” “What’s the new logo?” “It’s the letter Y” “What does the Y stand for?” “Um… Verizon Media Group?”	1.2×	0	389	90	4
78	Jul 21, '19	Link:	1.2×	0	412	104	39
79	Sep 13, '21	Ban cars	1.2×	0	512	66	7
80	Jun 25, '21	Yet another interview/profile of Larry Summers where the word “Epstein” never appears and where he’s never asked how many times he visited Epstein’s private island. I’m genuinely f	1.2×	0	428	89	11
81	Jul 24, '18	@opinion_joe you’d save a lot more money by just not publishing on Forbes than you would by not paying your suburban library tax	1.2×	0	590	38	0
82	Jul 24, '19	Thread. The more of these stories I read, the more I think that the rich do philanthropy while regular folks do charity, and the charity has far more impact.	1.2×	0	393	110	18
83	Nov 1, '17	How is this different from any big company	1.1×	0	520	36	0
84	Jun 8, '21	If only the generation after the baby boomers had its own name	1.1×	0	431	55	3
85	Nov 16, '22	@KelseyTuoc Kelsey do you understand what he's saying here? If it means what I think it means, it means... that when people wired money to FTX, that money wasn't used to buy the	1.1×	0	431	41	12
86	Aug 1, '22	This is an amazing paragraph	1.0×	0	403	65	29
87	Jul 19, '22	UK houses are bad at keeping you cool when it’s hot, and bad at keeping you warm when it’s cold, and bad at keeping you dry when it’s humid, but they’re very good at keeping you po	1.0×	0	401	92	7
88	Oct 15, '20	Truly a headline for the history books	1.0×	0	412	78	5
89	Jan 16, '19	@tylercowen The bad thing about payday lending is not that people can borrow money until they get paid, come on, you know that	1.0×	0	572	4	1
90	Sep 13, '23	If you want the tl;dr version of some of the biggest ideas in my book, head here, courtesy of @NextBigIdeaClub:	1.0×	37k	59	7	11
91	Mar 22, '20	I am very, very, very serious about this: Stay home. Wash your hands. And DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR 401(K)	1.0×	0	383	73	4
92	Mar 16, '20	@chrislhayes No one’s going to Vegas. Without a large stream of gamblers, keeping these casinos open just means losing more money. As Trump knows well from his Atlantic City days.	1.0×	0	433	62	1
93	May 4, '21	Here's something I wrote in 2010 that now can't be found: "I can assure you that if you link to an article at which is freely available today, it will always be freely available in	1.0×	0	392	59	6
94	Jul 18, '22	@JustinWolfers @MichaelRStrain @LazaroGamio but... he did agree to write a paper for $100k	1.0×	0	544	5	0
95	Jun 1, '20	I’m old enough to remember when people were worried about running out of toilet paper	0.9×	0	424	44	2
96	May 13, '21	The kind of inflation you love to see	0.9×	0	423	32	3
97	Jul 18, '22	@MichaelRStrain @JustinWolfers @LazaroGamio In the absence of the payment, the study would not have even been done! As the Guardian has revealed, the paper was part of a huge PR an	0.8×	0	475	6	3
98	Apr 14, '22	Is there an app you can use to record a beep that will analyze the beep and telll you what kind of device is causing the beep	0.8×	0	372	26	8
99	Oct 8, '18	@mirandacgreen Forward this to his CEO	0.8×	0	417	7	0
100	Jul 18, '22	@MichaelRStrain @JustinWolfers @LazaroGamio Do you consider that to be an adequate disclosure that Uber paid $100,000 for Krueger to write this paper?	0.7×	0	372	4	1

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