Wonderful to see our podcast HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS win at 2023 The Webby Awards for Best Business Limited Series.

Congrats to Peggy Sutton, Cheryl Brumley, Sara Nics, Jacob Goldstein, Edith Rousselot and everyone else at Pushkin Industries 🎙️ and the Financial Times.

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Today is my last day at the Financial Times. Later this year I'm starting as Asia correspondent at The Economist, based in Singapore.

Writing Unhedged with the great Robert Armstrong has been a privilege. Rob brings the wit, wisdom and substance day in & day out.

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Wonderful to see HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS win the Podcast/Audio prize at the SABEW awards. Huge shout out to producer extraordinaire Peggy Sutton and the rest of the team at Financial Times and @Pushkinpods.

In the last two decades, the world managed to cut extreme poverty by half - a feat never before achieved in human history - and almost nobody talks about it.

Current Medicare rules pay almost double for routine services if they are done at a hospital rather than at a physician’s office, despite the fact that:

a) there is no evidence that suggests better outcomes
b) this has lead to a lot of industry consolidation to game the system

Putting a battery on an induction stove could solve electrification's last-mile problem.

Lots of great details in my conversation with Sam D'Amico of Impulse

(Shoutout to Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 for bringing the company to my attention)

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A billion dollars isn’t cool.

You know what’s cool?

If you already pay for Spotify you can listen for free to my book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.

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22 years ago, the Meulenbergs met at a Calvin University The January Series lunch after hearing Fareed Zakaria speak. Was great to invite them back for the lunch after 20 years of marriage to listen to and meet Jacob Goldstein of the “What’s Your Problem” podcast

NYC’s streak without a daily snowfall of 1” or more has now reached 693 days, and is likely to cross the 700 mark next week. This is the longest such streak (by a lot) since records began in 1869.

.Chana Joffe-Walt has a profound gift for capturing humanity.

Listen to this episode of This American Life

Help me Andrew Mason you’re my only hope.

When I copy long blocks of tape, Descript cuts the last few words off of seemingly random sentences in the middle of the tape.

Started happening in the last few weeks.

Most of the most popular podcasts of 2023 are at least five years old. All but two were launched before the pandemic.

You know the nearer your destination

The more you’re slip slidin’ away.

What it was like to be a Jewish banker: Jacob Goldstein reviews “The Money Kings,” by Daniel Schulman. nyti.ms/47a6iTX

Honored to review a new book on the Goldmans, Sachs, Lehmans, Warburgs, etc. who helped create the modern economy. via
⁦⁦New York Times Books⁩ nytimes.com/2023/11/14/boo…

In the latest episode of #judgingsam , I try to explain to Jacob Goldstein what has made AUSA Danielle Sassoon so fascinating to watch in court: open.spotify.com/episode/2XLpaJ…

DogeDesigner So true. Read an eye opening book, 'Money, The True Story of a Made Up Thing' Jacob Goldstein amazon.com/Money-True-Sto….

Thoroughly enjoying 'Money' by Jacob Goldstein.
'Here is a thing that always happens with money: whatever money is at a given moment comes to seem like the natural form money should take, and anything else seems like irresponsible craziness.'