Review by Felix Salmon: Journalist Anupreeta Das examines the life and legacy of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in her book “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King.” wapo.st/3X0FbrZ

My cunning plan of sneaking Princess Bride quotes into Axios headlines continues unabated axios.com/2024/08/15/any…

If you're not signed up for Axios macro you're missing incredible economic analysis and insight from Neil Irwin and Courtenay Brown and sizzling data visualizations like today's:

Did anyone else get a notification in their Citi Bike app offering 20% off a bulk purchase of e-bike minutes with a 14 day expiry?

This Sunday morning I salute Cardiff Garcia Luke Kawa Emily Stewart Sarah Solomon and all the other heroes of Lancaster who leave no bus behind

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One of the weirder forms of placard corruption is when placard-only parking spots are taken up by *actual wrecks* “on official business”

Off to the land of stationery stores, thinking of getting some notecards made. So, friends, what face is this?

R.I.P. Jim Ledbetter. The smartest and most generous of writers and friends.

The best word I have ever written in my career as a journalist was when I wrote a piece about Anthony Scaramucci that ended with calling him a “popinjay”. The truth can now be told: That word wasn’t my idea, it was suggested by the great James Ledbetter, an indelible force for generations

Jim crammed a lot of lifetimes into a single, too-short one: nytimes.com/2024/11/02/bus…

Amazing graphic by @Axios' Erin Davis in this @FelixSalmon story showing the increase in U.S. imports from China (left side) paired with the increase in U.S. exports to China (right side). axios.com/2025/01/03/chi…

Any merger arbs out there want to tell me what the market-implied probability of Nippon Steel buying US Steel now is?

I'm looking for institutional investors who have invested in a basket of cryptocurrencies. If you are one, or know one who would be happy to talk to me, can you get in touch?

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

I'm reasonably sure that today's drop in $UNH is the largest dollar decline in a Dow component ever. Does anybody keep a list of such things?

IBERIA BLACKOUT - I discussed possible causes and implications on the Slate Money podcast with felix salmon slate.com/podcasts/slate…