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Zeke Faux

@zekefaux.bsky.social

NUMBER GO UP * Bloomberg investigative reporter

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Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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?

nytimes.com

Kim Lyons@kimly.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

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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Pamela Colloff@pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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...

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?

propublica.org

Andrew Burke@ajlburke.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · last yr.

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race. More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Iñaki Aldasoro@aldasoro.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out the latest Odd Lots, featuring @rlspang.bsky.social, Stefan Ingves & yours truly, a recorded panel of a great conference on “how to write the biography of a currency” hosted by Harold James & @bhgreeley.bsky.social at Princeton in early May open.spotify.com/episode/3Bzs...

Zeke Faux@zekefaux.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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.

nypost.com