Brendan Coffey
@brendanc.bsky.social
Journalist, analyst and investor
ex-Forbes, Dow Jones, Bloomberg
Read more on Substack: https://substack.com/@coffeytalk
ex-Forbes, Dow Jones, Bloomberg
Read more on Substack: https://substack.com/@coffeytalk
Barron's magazine loves writing about Madison Square Garden Sports. I spent some time on it because, why not?
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Barron's magazine loves writing about Madison Square Garden Sports. I spent some time on it because, why not?
I asked four AI what America's perfect painting should look like. coffeytalk.substack.com/p/heres-what...
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I asked four AI what America's perfect painting should look like. coffeytalk.substack.com/p/heres-what...
I do a deep dive on the soaring SAT scores of the top colleges. What is going on? Is an Ivy/Ivy-plus school really so haerd to get into now?
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open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...
Elite College SAT Scores are Way Up. What Does it Mean?
Reported scores make it seem even harder to get into a top school.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I do a deep dive on the soaring SAT scores of the top colleges. What is going on? Is an Ivy/Ivy-plus school really so haerd to get into now?
open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...
open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...
Boston just got its first Michelin-starred restaurant and @savvysips.bsky.social got the first iterview with the owners, post award
www.forbes.com/sites/jeanne...
www.forbes.com/sites/jeanne...
Secrets Of Three 1 One, Boston’s Only Michelin-Starred Restaurant
Well beyond pristine fish, this South End Omakase puts intense consideration into everything from the artist-crafted dishes to the perfect rice.
www.forbes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Boston just got its first Michelin-starred restaurant and @savvysips.bsky.social got the first iterview with the owners, post award
www.forbes.com/sites/jeanne...
www.forbes.com/sites/jeanne...
NVIDIA earnings saved the AI trade, but clean energy stocks have been the better buy in 2025
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Nuclear Stocks Better Investments Than AI
AI is all the rage, but clean energy stocks are the better investment so far in 2025
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NVIDIA earnings saved the AI trade, but clean energy stocks have been the better buy in 2025
open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...
open.substack.com/pub/coffeyta...
Blank check IPOs are having one of their best years ever, just three years after imploding. Things are so good, an old favoritie target is reappearing in prospectuses.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/sports-spa...
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/sports-spa...
Sports SPACs are Making a Comeback
What's (not even that) old is new again
coffeytalk.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Blank check IPOs are having one of their best years ever, just three years after imploding. Things are so good, an old favoritie target is reappearing in prospectuses.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/sports-spa...
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/sports-spa...
ESPN is another top name brand to fail at U.S. sports betting as Penn Gaming pulls the plug today. Barstool, Sports Illustrated and Betway have all tried and failed before this.
$$PENN $DIS #sportsbetting
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$$PENN $DIS #sportsbetting
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/espn-bet-b...
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
ESPN is another top name brand to fail at U.S. sports betting as Penn Gaming pulls the plug today. Barstool, Sports Illustrated and Betway have all tried and failed before this.
$$PENN $DIS #sportsbetting
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$$PENN $DIS #sportsbetting
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/espn-bet-b...
Reposted by Brendan Coffey
Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials.
Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether
Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials.
Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether
Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether
Reposted by Brendan Coffey
Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
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GOLDMAN DESK: “.. The market cap of NVDA (~$4.86 trn) is closing in on the market cap of the entire Industrials S&P500 GICS (~$4.89 trillion), composed of 79 companies.”
October 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
GOLDMAN DESK: “.. The market cap of NVDA (~$4.86 trn) is closing in on the market cap of the entire Industrials S&P500 GICS (~$4.89 trillion), composed of 79 companies.”
The government says inflation is "just" 3% year over year. But here's why it doesn't feel like that. The actual percentage price increase of some items, from a year ago, in today's the BLS release.
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The government says inflation is "just" 3% year over year. But here's why it doesn't feel like that. The actual percentage price increase of some items, from a year ago, in today's the BLS release.
If a business journalist doesn't publish anything, is he still a journalist? I'm on a little place called Substack these days, writing about business and markets of all types.
Here are my thoughts on gold's massive rally.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/gold-screa...
Here are my thoughts on gold's massive rally.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/gold-screa...
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If a business journalist doesn't publish anything, is he still a journalist? I'm on a little place called Substack these days, writing about business and markets of all types.
Here are my thoughts on gold's massive rally.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/gold-screa...
Here are my thoughts on gold's massive rally.
coffeytalk.substack.com/p/gold-screa...
Wait, this was a Prince cover?!
Chaka Khan releases her version of Prince’s classic “I Feel for You” 41 years ago today.
The intro repeating her name became iconic, but “I was embarrassed,” she said later. “I didn’t like anybody saying my name over. I said, ‘I gotta live with this.’”
The intro repeating her name became iconic, but “I was embarrassed,” she said later. “I didn’t like anybody saying my name over. I said, ‘I gotta live with this.’”
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Wait, this was a Prince cover?!
That a person that tall can have as calm a body swinging at a baseball is amazing. Dave Winfield almost won a batting title (lost to Mattingly last day pf season, if I recall) and you'd see every joint and limb sway half a dozen times as he swung
Aaron Judge just posted a 215 OPS+.
That's his third time topping 200. (Only 4 AL/NL hitters ever with more.)
It's the 4th-best righty batter season ever. It gives him two of the top four, and three of the top eight. stathead.com/tiny/0SA1J
Sometimes i feel like we underrate him somehow?
That's his third time topping 200. (Only 4 AL/NL hitters ever with more.)
It's the 4th-best righty batter season ever. It gives him two of the top four, and three of the top eight. stathead.com/tiny/0SA1J
Sometimes i feel like we underrate him somehow?
September 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
That a person that tall can have as calm a body swinging at a baseball is amazing. Dave Winfield almost won a batting title (lost to Mattingly last day pf season, if I recall) and you'd see every joint and limb sway half a dozen times as he swung
Juan Soto will forever lament choosing slightly more historic money over historic money
I am so happy that 1968-2001 me isn't here to see to this
The New York Mets' collapse is one of the worst you'll ever see. Despite being 21 games over .500 in June and owning baseball's best record at the time, the Mets failed to make the playoffs. Making things worse, no one "chased" them down. They just blew it.
September 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Juan Soto will forever lament choosing slightly more historic money over historic money
And he hasn't been fired, has he?
On the network that platformed Charlie Kirk — who would have thought such a thing could happen
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And he hasn't been fired, has he?
My neighbor & his wife went to Oberlin, so I am totally going to hold this over the--oh wait, they went to Oberlin, they don't care
Sorry Oberlin, does that say -56 rushing yards?
In case you wondered how Oberlin managed to land at the bottom with such a resounding thud...this'll do it...
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My neighbor & his wife went to Oberlin, so I am totally going to hold this over the--oh wait, they went to Oberlin, they don't care
Overconfident BC fan here (both on the sked this year). Both look suitably mediocre (but entertaining q4!)
OVERRRRRRRTIMMMMEEE
UConn Syracuse tied. Get there now.
September 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Overconfident BC fan here (both on the sked this year). Both look suitably mediocre (but entertaining q4!)
You forgot to link the super cut
1,256 PUNTS THIS WEEK SO FAR!!!
(in games involving one Division 1 FBS or FCS team)
(in games involving one Division 1 FBS or FCS team)
August 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
You forgot to link the super cut
Tom Clancy's The Things They Carried
August 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Tom Clancy's The Things They Carried
Your chart really shows a problem with the start of August. The more accurate (sophisticated) charting would've shown a breakdown starting August 4.
August 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Your chart really shows a problem with the start of August. The more accurate (sophisticated) charting would've shown a breakdown starting August 4.
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
www.irishtimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Or Germany 1990s
Wasn't too long ago Irish weren't considered "white" (Europe 1980s)
ooh if you’re of polish, italian or irish descent…watch out
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Or Germany 1990s
Wasn't too long ago Irish weren't considered "white" (Europe 1980s)
ooh if you’re of polish, italian or irish descent…watch out
Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)
August 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Wasn't too long ago Irish weren't considered "white" (Europe 1980s)
Exciting! Thanks AJ (and this morning's episode was good regardless)
BONUS EPISODE: BC names a starting QB
What does this mean for the Eagles?
Please watch!
What does this mean for the Eagles?
Please watch!
BREAKING NEWS: Bill O'Brien names Dylan Lonergan starting Boston College QB. What does this mean?
YouTube video by Locked On Boston College
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August 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Exciting! Thanks AJ (and this morning's episode was good regardless)