Max Abelson
@maxabelson
I report on money and power for @Business and sometimes @BW
If you think you're gonna scoop the Bloomberg terminal on a Powell move, get psychological help.
What were the last three months like for you? On Wall Street, where volatility is more lucrative than just about anything you can think of, stock traders inside Goldman Sachs just posted the largest revenue haul in the industry's history bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Banger right here. Read it today
“We are all object lessons in the brain’s ungovernable will, its impishness, its refusal to be yoked to the ends to which we have put it.” Andrew Kay reports on the Annual OCD Conference and on the condition’s possible environmental determinates. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
Seriously good reporting here from @ZekeFaux, @MuyaoShen and @a_cormier_ bloomberg.com/news/features/…
We’re appalled by the reported killing in Gaza today of children and women waiting in line for nutritional supplies provided by UNICEF’s partner organization, Project HOPE. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.👇 unicef.org/press-releases…
Almost got robbed by a source while investigating this $44 million book publishing scam for @BW. Enjoy! bloomberg.com/news/features/…
A genuinely nauseating piece of accountability journalism -- it features, for example, bubbling geysers of trash juice --from @mslaurabliss and @rachaeldottle bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…
"The administration has pulled back federal funding, arrested foreign students and attempted to dictate the makeup of the student body — all part of Miller’s vision to protect Western civilization" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A great twist in the ugly Epstein story: a top Wall Street figure just chose to go through a hearing that ended up revealing new and gruesome details about Epstein’s “family.” By @harrynwilson, @jonny_browning, @avabmorrison and me. Gift link! bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
For the heads: Dick’s Picks Vol 4, on sale for the last four minutes — maybe the finest Dark Star in the history of the cosmos??? realgonemusic.com/products/grate…
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You couldn't put down a William Langewiesche story, whether you went in caring about the subject or not. "The Shipbreakers" was the piece that drew me into longform journalism, and still astonishes today. What a reporter, what a writer, what a life. RIP.
Langewiesche was one of the best. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/bus…