Liz Hoffman
@lizrhoffman
writing about biz & finance @Semafor. @WSJ alum. author of CRASH LANDING out now from @crownpublishing. order here: http://rb.gy/iks9g6
Look what just (crash) landed on my doorstep. Pre-order here to get yours on March 7! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669739/c…
LOTTA people in these comments don't know how NY politics works.
Tough meeting for Mamdani with the Partnership for NY (CEOs) today I'm told. Stood his ground on "intifada" language and wouldn't commit to keeping NYPD Comm. Tisch, whom this crowd likes, in the job. (Also did not recognize her father, Jim Tisch, when he rose for a question)
Tough meeting for Mamdani with the Partnership for NY (CEOs) today I'm told. Stood his ground on "intifada" language and wouldn't commit to keeping NYPD Comm. Tisch, whom this crowd likes, in the job. (Also did not recognize her father, Jim Tisch, when he rose for a question)
Big news in the railroad M&A that’s heating up, and a lesson on the power of FOMO
SCOOP: Berkshire’s BNSF working with bankers to explore its own takeover bid for rival rail, sources tell @semafor. Follows Union Pacific’s pursuit of Norfolk. That and more below $BRKA $UNP $NSC $CSX semafor.com/article/07/21/…
you have 2 years to make money before an aeron chair is out of reach and you're in the in permanent steelcase underclass
Layoffs and restructuring at Saudi Arabia’s futuristic desert megalopolis semafor.com/article/07/18/…
A senior White House official confirms Trump asked lawmakers how they felt about firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Lawmakers indicated they’d approve of firing him, and the president indicated he likely will soon. *No specifics on what “soon” means timeline-wise, and of course…
“Consumer economies are the envy of the worlds” they said
This girl is $400K in credit card debt but refuses to stop traveling in the name of seeing the world Social media has totally cooked our minds
They made this ad in a week using AI. It’s good! Creative still matters but execution is going to free really fast…
History was made by the underdogs.
Nobody smarter or scoopier on the most facsinating finance storyline in the world. @MattMartin128 welcome!
🟡We're excited to announce that @MattMartin128 is joining @semafor as Saudi Arabia Bureau Chief and Global Head of Sovereign Wealth Fund Coverage. He is one of the definitive reporters on the region and his hiring represents a major step forward for Semafor's Gulf coverage.
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Zeitgeist check
Sports betting, yoloing options, wealth tax, Socialist candidates, crypto More and more symptoms of a generation locked out of + antagonistic toward Capitalism. Steady drumbeat of doomer content saying AI will destroy jobs doesn't help Trend will continue to accelerate
Sports betting, yoloing options, wealth tax, Socialist candidates, crypto More and more symptoms of a generation locked out of + antagonistic toward Capitalism. Steady drumbeat of doomer content saying AI will destroy jobs doesn't help Trend will continue to accelerate
Woke consumer wars are a big-tent problem
I’m not an economist, but…
This is really funny The neighbors, NIMBY, sue over new, more YIMBY zoning code. The city, incompetent, misses filing deadline, forfeits the case. *But* b/c the city repealed the old zoning code to pass the new one, its loss means all zoning is gone. Total YIMBY victory
A lawsuit challenging Charlottesville, Virginia's abolition of single-family zoning unexpectedly sees the city's entire zoning code thrown out. reason.com/2025/07/08/nim…
Yes but… this is where deregulation folks have a point. Requiring govt sign off for the sale of a movie studio attached to an airwaves license opens the door. A wild thing to think about - if 60 Minutes were a podcast instead of a broadcast we wouldn’t be here
🟡 SCOOP: Unilever is cutting off millions in funding for Ben & Jerry’s charitable foundation after it refused to provide audit documents, escalating what has become a microcosm for corporate “woke” wars, @lizrhoffman reports. Peter ter Kulve, who runs Unilever’s ice cream…