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May 9
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Felix Salmon
August 2019
Nota bene: Mass shootings
My friend Manu Saadia has a thing where he starts a bunch of his tweets with the phrase “I am going to say something very controversial but”. Once you…
Aug 14, 2019
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Felix Salmon
September 2018
Nota bene: The Axios era begins!
Hi friends! I ended up taking a break from this newsletter for the summer, at the end of which I got a job as the chief financial correspondent for…
Sep 11, 2018
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Felix Salmon
June 2018
Nota bene: Nota bene
I don’t love talking about myself, or what I’m up to. (That’s why I created @felixbot, separate from my main @felixsalmon feed, just to tweet myself: if…
Jun 5, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: Tabular figures
Numbers appear on top of each other in all manner of contexts, from sports scores to menus to those incomprehensibly dry data tables at the back of…
Jun 5, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: Habitat 67
I had two indelibly memorable experiences the last time I traveled to Montreal, just over a year ago. One was a truly spectacular meal at Joe Beef; the…
Jun 2, 2018
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Felix Salmon
May 2018
Nota bene: Cheers!
It’s National Wine Day today, you don’t need me to tell you what to do. But by request, I’ll share three good wines: Red: François Moutard’s Hérisson…
May 25, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: Flipping modern masters
The two most valuable artworks at the big Sotheby’s evening sale on Monday were both acquired at auction not so long ago. The big Modigliani nude, which…
May 13, 2018
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Felix Salmon
April 2018
Nota bene: <threads>
In my last note I worried, not very much, about journalistic purity, and wondered why Business Insider was disinterring so many old stories about Jeff…
Apr 28, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: SponCon agonistes
Vanity Fair is putting up a paywall -- the increasingly universal signifier of quality independent editorial which can’t survive on ad revenue alone. As…
Apr 26, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: Why New York won't get congestion pricing
New York congestion pricing is dead, again. As the NYT headline put it, “Congestion Pricing Plan for Manhattan Ran Into Politics. Politics Won.” The…
Apr 20, 2018
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Felix Salmon
Nota bene: Josh Brown is failing
This is the photo that Josh Brown, the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, used atop a recent post carrying the headline “Discipline Equals Freedom”: The…
Apr 13, 2018
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Felix Salmon
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