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Nathaniel Popper
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Editor at Bloomberg News. Previously, reporter at NYT, LAT and the Forward. Wrote: "The Trolls of Wall Street" + "Digital Gold.”
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A selection of tweets and retweets from the account of the new Pope.
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
looks like the wisdom of the crowds doesn't extend to the vatican
May 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Investors are starting to question the Michael Saylor Microstrategy playbook, just as the number of imitators takes off.
Raising Debt to Buy Crypto Doesn’t Work as Well as It Used To
The success of Michael Saylor’s fundraising playbook for Strategy is causing trouble for its imitators, as the market for the convertible bonds they are using to fund Bitcoin buys is getting tighter —...
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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KEY ECO DATAPOINTS ARE DECAYING

@tracyalloway.bsky.social and I talk to former BLS Commissioners Bill Beach about how it's getting more and more expensive to publish the Jobs Report and CPI each month, and budget constraints are threatening their existence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Some of America's Most Important Economic Data Is Decaying
Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 04/30/2025 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The data shows a “sharp stop” in the purchases of US assets by overseas buyers over the past two months, with no sign of a turnaround last week when the cloud over the markets seemed to be lifting, Saravelos wrote in a note on Monday.

via Ye Xie
April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Cliff Asness, the ever skeptical quant of Wall Street, doubted that AI would change his business. Not anymore, @justinaknope.bsky.social reports
AQR Bets on Machine Learning as Cliff Asness Becomes AI Believer
Cliff Asness, Wall Street’s standard bearer of traditional quant finance, was once skeptical that machine learning would ever make a big splash at AQR Capital Management.
www.bloomberg.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Excited to share that my new book, THE TROLLS OF WALL STREET, will be released by @deystreet this June.

This is the story of how we got from Occupy Wall Street to WallStreetBets. It's about money, masculinity, power and online culture.

Pre-order now!

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Trolls of Wall Street
The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upe...
www.harpercollins.com
March 14, 2024 at 3:01 AM
file under: things you wouldn’t expect if you read r/antiwork, or any newspaper

From: https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2023-05-15
May 16, 2023 at 4:54 PM
@yoyoel.com has written all these great things about moderation and social media since getting on here but this is the post that resonated with me the most deeply.
Me after 2 days of pretending to be an extrovert at a conference
May 4, 2023 at 9:55 PM
Here to see if this whole idea can finally work.
May 3, 2023 at 4:40 AM
On that profile photo. Once I went into a bathroom and looked oddly like Elon Musk. I have to assume it was the lighting and the lack of sleep.
May 3, 2023 at 4:25 AM