Zachary Mider
@zachmider
Reporter at Bloomberg News @business. [email protected]. Opinions are my own, RTs not endorsements.
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: nytimes.com/2025/07/14/bus…
Note to CNN and Washington Post: “Conspiracy” is not the same as “conspiracy theory.” Not acceptable shorthand.
One of the Trump family’s crypto ventures has received some key behind-the-scenes help from Binance, whose founder is a convicted felon now seeking a presidential pardon bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Every year, half of H-1Bs go to visa middlemen - staffers and outsourcers that farm out lower-paid contract workers. But who hires the middlemen? We obtained exclusive data, for the first time, to reveal the "end-client" companies that benefit from this broken visa system.
For the last few days, online content farms on X, Facebook and Instagram have taken our original fact-based reporting and turned it into viral content without attribution. A thread on why that sucks and why it matters for small independent media organizations.
Fascinating tale about how Jane Street co-founder says he was duped into funding AK-47s and other weapons for an alleged coup plot in South Sudan. @avabmorrison and @sridinats bloom.bg/44xuvor
Appreciate the love. Here's the story (gift linked), for anyone that hasn't read it. Maybe the book is next! bloomberg.com/news/features/…
The final entry in our week of covering the Golden Age of Scams is a banger from @moetkacik on merchant cash advance: payday loans for small businesses, administered by a rogue's gallery of ex-cons, drug traffickers, boiler room hustlers, & hired muscle. (link below)
The book you are looking for is always next to the book you are looking for
During my PhD, my advisor told me to not use the library’s computer to find the book I wanted, because the act of browsing row after row in the stacks to find it was how original connections were made.