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Alex Zank
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Dad. Reporter covering corporate finance & accounting for Morning Brew's cfobrew.com. Lifelong Wisconsinite and huge Milwaukee stan.
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I was very proud of myself for this newsletter top blurb last week 🏴‍☠️
Snippet of CFO Brew newsletter from Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. The top blurb reads, "Ahoy, me hearties! It’s Thursday. The price of gold, topping $4,000 per ounce for the first time, has us itching to ditch the computer in favor of a pirate ship and voyage the high seas for long-lost doubloons."
October 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Pete Crow-Armstrong thought he could jump 20+ feet in the air to steal a HR ball only to needlessly slam against the center field wall not once, but twice this series. #Brewers
PCA of the Cubs embarrassed himself PCA of the Cubs embarrassed himself, again
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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It was already hard enough to get people to verify anything they saw online www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart titled "Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries." Numbers are % of Google searches in March 2025 Pages with AI summary -Clicking on a link in the AI summary 1 -Clicking on a link from the search results 8 -Ending their browsing session 26 -Continuing to search Google 32 -Leaving Google to browse a different site 34 Pages without AI summary -Clicking on a link in the AI summary N/A -Clicking on a link from the search results 15 -Ending their browsing session 16 -Continuing to search Google 35 -Leaving Google to browse a different site 33 Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Sorry, kids. The two things are inseparable #dadjokes #fathersday #dadsky
A clothing ad that shows a younger looking man wearing clothes that are meant to make him look like a stereotypical dad. He's in blue shorts, long sleeve shirt, bunched up white crew socks, and those old school New Balance lookin' shoes
June 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The artwork in this "AI in accounting" report looks like it belongs in an album from The Ocean
A screenshot of a report entitled "The State of AI in Accounting 2025." It has a black and brown color scheme and much of the report artwork follows a smooth, circular pattern. Album artwork from The Ocean's "Phanerozoic II." The colors scheme is light brown and dark brown and the artwork is essentially a series of circles. Album artwork from The Ocean's "Holocene." It has a black and brown/gold color scheme.
June 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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In anticipation of their upcoming album: Downgrade Desert is Igorrr's best song, and I will not entertain arguments to the contrary. thank you. #igorrr #music
Photo depicting members of Igorrr (plus a camel) standing in a desert and dressed in outfits that they wore in the music video to the song "Downgrade Desert."
June 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Trump did not respond well to the TACO term, btw. From the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Clip from a NYT article. It reads: A dispatch from the On Politics newsletter. President Trump learned a new acronym on Wednesday. He was holding one of his marathon question-and-answer sessions with journalists in the Oval Office when one reporter asked him about a new term of art being used on Wall Street: TACO. It stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Coined by a columnist for The Financial Times, it captures the belief — held by an increasing number of traders and analysts — that Trump never really follows through with his tariff threats, and implies a warning to buy or sell accordingly. Evidently, this was the first time Mr. Trump had heard the term, which immediately sent him into a state of high dudgeon. “Oh, isn’t that nice,” he started to say. “I chicken out? I’ve never heard that.” He offered a defense of his trade maneuvering. But he seemed as annoyed by the question as by the term itself.
May 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A famous photo of a seated Donald Trump giving a thumbs-up in front of a taco salad. Superimposed across the top of that image is a clip from a Financial Times article. The key passage from the clip states, "This is the Taco theory: Trump Always Chickens Out."
May 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I mean is this us in 100 years (or less)?
An image from the Pixar movie WALL-E (2008), depicting two obese people sitting in mobile hover-chairs with floating screens in front of them. WALL-E is at their side. They're all looking up at something outside of the frame.
May 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The experts I spoke with were, in fact, NOT using a crystal ball during our virtual calls. But it sure feels like they were.
Snippet of a CFO Brew story that is being quote-skeeted. It reads: Nelson said he sees potentially more rollbacks of Dodd-Frank regulations during Trump 2.0. “I don’t know if we’ll see legislation on this or not, but we’re certainly seeing the Trump administration look at some regulatory rollbacks, reconsidering some of the rules themselves,” he said, noting that agencies are able to modify or rescind rules. “I think we’re probably seeing another round of that in the near to mid term.”
May 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A very large but still very good boy
A large St. Bernard dog bobblehead
May 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Zuck: The average American has three friends
Spongebob drew smiley faces on three of his fingers. "The gang's all here," he famously says in the cartoon.
May 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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A film that takes place where you're from
Promotional poster for the documentary Wisconsin Death Trip
April 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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It has quickly become clear I did not make enough coffee this morning for *gestures in dismay at everything*
April 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"Readers" may forgive typos, but I never forget when I encounter a misspelled word or missing punctuation in an article. Never.
Screenshot of a LinkedIn notification that reads, "Readers forgive typos, not confusing writing. See why this editor prioritizes sentence-level editing."
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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With all eyes on the Wisconsin statewide results, I want to bring attention to my community of Menomonee Falls, where voters rejected two of the three Republican-funded school board candidates in what's meant to be a nonpartisan race.
Results from the Tuesday, April 1 election in the School District of Menomonee Falls. The table is titled "School Board Member Menomonee Falls School District." It shows Hallie Newman Schmeling, Nina Christensen, and Jesse Cramer as the top three vote-getters, who have all secured a seat on the SDMF school board.
April 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Why is the fact that Trump cannot actually do this not the lede?
Snippet from NYT article. It reads, "Rick Hasen, a political science professor and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, said that Mr. Trump had no authority to dictate how states ran their elections, such as requiring them to count their ballots by Election Day."
March 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I haven't thought about this meme in a minute
Photo illustration. "But her emails" written on what resembles a road sign that's nearly submerged in a flood
March 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.

Hard mode: No villains
Viggo Mortenson portraying Ben in Mr. Fantastic
March 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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It's hard to understand why so many people think public transit is inherently unsafe, since cars result in far more passenger deaths than trains and buses.
Bar graph comparing passenger death rates of cars, buses, trains, and planes from 2008 to 2022. Every year, passenger deaths by car far outpace the others. The chart is from the National Safety Council website.
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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CFOs must be curious and analyze what they're hearing to help drive the business, Audible's Cynthia Chiu tells McCullough. She says curiosity is key for her and other CFOs to keep up with the evolving and expanding role.
Audible's Cynthia Chiu and CFO Leadership Council's Jack McCullough speaking at CFO Brew event.
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Heard at CFO Brew's "Financed Reimagined" event: CFOs once were viewed as the "corporate historians," reporting what happened after the fact. says Jack McCullough of the CFO Leadership Council. But as their role has changed, they've gone from reporting history to making it.
Cynthia Chiu of Audible and Jack McCullough of CFO Leadership Council speaking to an audience at CFO Brew event.
March 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The articles tells the experiences of several people working at national parks and forests, perhaps the most beloved and popular aspect of federal government. Yet, even they are getting hate from strangers, friends and family.
Snippet from quoted AP story wherein a fired federal employee describes his experience seeing the public's reaction to him losing his job. One person likened him, an aquatic biologist with a Ph.D., to a "glorified pool boy."
March 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I am excited. Morning Brew's Good Work covers the global accounting shortage in its newest episode. It's full of informative charts like this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4I...
Half of AICPA members (accountants) are 50+ years old, as shown by this illustrative pie chart. Courtesy of Morning Brew's Good Work
March 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Is it OK to say Skeledirge is my favorite starter Pokémon? Or is that blasphemy?
Image of Skeledirge, perhaps the best starting Pokémon of them all
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM