Max Chafkin
@chafkin.bsky.social
Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of the new podcast "Everybody's Business." Also co-host of "Elon Inc." and author of “The Contarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs.” Msg me on signal: @chafkin.83
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What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
this was good www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
management 101 basically www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
management 101 basically www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
new episode! featuring a personal account of an ICE raid... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
An Eyewitness Account of How ICE Raids Are Chilling the Economy
On Everybody’s Business, we see up close the economic consequences of Donald Trump’s immigration dragnet. We also explore the flailing film industry.
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
new episode! featuring a personal account of an ICE raid... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Dumb q maybe…why do we assume that metas ai losses are fueling its revenue? Couldn’t it just be “using market power to raise prices”
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Dumb q maybe…why do we assume that metas ai losses are fueling its revenue? Couldn’t it just be “using market power to raise prices”
Come find me tomorrow in Boston! bostonbookfestival2025.sched.com/event/27cJd/...
Boston Book Festival 2025: Who Has Power? Pulling Back the Curtain...
View more about this event at Boston Book Festival 2025
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October 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Come find me tomorrow in Boston! bostonbookfestival2025.sched.com/event/27cJd/...
New everybody’s business, @kyla.bsky.social decodes a confusing economy, we also talk Argentina, gavin. Subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Everybody's Business
Business News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Bloomberg Businessweek brings you a smart and fun chat show about all things...business. Hosted by award-winning business and economics journalists Max Chafkin...
podcasts.apple.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
New everybody’s business, @kyla.bsky.social decodes a confusing economy, we also talk Argentina, gavin. Subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Reposted by Max Chafkin
Trump pardoned the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance -- a key suporter of the his family's crypto venture that has boosted the president's wealth.
@chafkin.bsky.social explains with @stephruhle.bsky.social the extent to which Binance was "looking the other way on crime."
@chafkin.bsky.social explains with @stephruhle.bsky.social the extent to which Binance was "looking the other way on crime."
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Trump pardoned the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance -- a key suporter of the his family's crypto venture that has boosted the president's wealth.
@chafkin.bsky.social explains with @stephruhle.bsky.social the extent to which Binance was "looking the other way on crime."
@chafkin.bsky.social explains with @stephruhle.bsky.social the extent to which Binance was "looking the other way on crime."
"like come on. they are here for crime" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Zhao’s Pardon Is Part of Crypto’s Attempt to Rewrite History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"like come on. they are here for crime" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Reposted by Max Chafkin
Meet the man who bet a million dollars (!!!) on Taylor Swift’s album sales.
@domahhhh made the bet on @polymarket.bsky.social and spoke w/ me & @chafkin.bsky.social for Everybody’s Business last week. You can hear how he did this week. Check it out! (+ @bradstone.bsky.social is cohosting)
@domahhhh made the bet on @polymarket.bsky.social and spoke w/ me & @chafkin.bsky.social for Everybody’s Business last week. You can hear how he did this week. Check it out! (+ @bradstone.bsky.social is cohosting)
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Meet the man who bet a million dollars (!!!) on Taylor Swift’s album sales.
@domahhhh made the bet on @polymarket.bsky.social and spoke w/ me & @chafkin.bsky.social for Everybody’s Business last week. You can hear how he did this week. Check it out! (+ @bradstone.bsky.social is cohosting)
@domahhhh made the bet on @polymarket.bsky.social and spoke w/ me & @chafkin.bsky.social for Everybody’s Business last week. You can hear how he did this week. Check it out! (+ @bradstone.bsky.social is cohosting)
i wrote about why i think openai's embrace of porn is a huge red flag www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i wrote about why i think openai's embrace of porn is a huge red flag www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
New ep! An interview with the biggest bettor on polymarket, plus @amandamull.bsky.social on super high end credit cards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meet Polymarket’s $400 Million Man
On this week’s Everybody’s Business, an interview with the site’s most prolific gambler, premium credit cards and R-rated chatbots.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New ep! An interview with the biggest bettor on polymarket, plus @amandamull.bsky.social on super high end credit cards www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Come help me and @svaneksmith.bsky.social make everybody’s business bloomberg.avature.net/careers/Publ...
Podcast Producer - Contract
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October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Come help me and @svaneksmith.bsky.social make everybody’s business bloomberg.avature.net/careers/Publ...
Loved this visit to a cybertruck owners convention www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Loved this visit to a cybertruck owners convention www.wired.com/story/owning...
Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right
In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.
www.bloomberg.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
the new car is the same as the old car
We wanted flying cars and got fabric seats. Here's @chafkin.bsky.social on why Tesla's new standard models and its larger ambitions are disappointing now
Why Tesla’s Cheaper Model Y Is a Disappointment
The pared-back car comes from a company falling behind in the EV race. Plus: African farmers’ opportunity.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the new car is the same as the old car
we had two great guests this week on Everybody's Business. @justinwolfers.bsky.social on the shutdown, @zekefaux.bsky.social on crypto. SUBSCRIBE!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Everybody's Business
Business News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Bloomberg Businessweek brings you a smart and fun chat show about all things...business. Hosted by award-winning business and economics journalists Max Chafkin...
podcasts.apple.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
we had two great guests this week on Everybody's Business. @justinwolfers.bsky.social on the shutdown, @zekefaux.bsky.social on crypto. SUBSCRIBE!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Will be on tonight talking shutdown
TONIGHT: We approach the third day of the government shutdown – Trump threatens sweeping layoffs – & the potential risk for the economy as the shutdown drags on.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Will be on tonight talking shutdown
If you want to understand what where this shutdown is headed this, and the guy behind it, this is worth revisiting
If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency
Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If you want to understand what where this shutdown is headed this, and the guy behind it, this is worth revisiting
Reposted by Max Chafkin
If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency
Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
sharing this story i wrote for @bloomberg.com from april, www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency
Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.
www.bloomberg.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
sharing this story i wrote for @bloomberg.com from april, www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
this smacks of desperation: tesla is quietly marketing its supposedly "full self driving" software as worth buying if want to drive drowsy, when thats the time you'd least want to use it www.wired.com/story/story/...
Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use ‘Full Self-Driving.’ That Could Go Very Wrong
The company’s FSD tech doesn’t actually self-drive. Experts say that advising customers to switch it on when they're drifting between lanes is exactly the wrong move.
www.wired.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this smacks of desperation: tesla is quietly marketing its supposedly "full self driving" software as worth buying if want to drive drowsy, when thats the time you'd least want to use it www.wired.com/story/story/...
Omg this cover
New @wired.com cover!!!! It's the Politics Issue
September 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Omg this cover
New ep! How to fix the fed with Rohit Chopra, and a look at the salary cap scandal that everyone in sports is talking about podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Is the Fed Really That Independent?
Podcast Episode · Everybody's Business · 09/19/2025 · 36m
podcasts.apple.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New ep! How to fix the fed with Rohit Chopra, and a look at the salary cap scandal that everyone in sports is talking about podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How an Enron Parody Turned Into a Financial Mess of Its Own
Some performance artists bought the name for peanuts and concocted an elaborate caricature of corporate excess. It didn’t go as they planned.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...