Zeke Faux — New America Fellow, 2023

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New America fellow profile of Zeke Faux, New America Fellow, 2023, a senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek who has spent a decade profiling the hustlers, scammers and hedge fund managers on the shady side of Wall Street. It says he won the Gerald Loeb award for explanatory business journalism and the Silver Gavel award of the American Bar Association for his reporting on predatory lending, and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Faux is the author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, and the page lists his Bloomberg Businessweek stories on Tether’s billions, Sam Bankman-Fried and a cryptocurrency theft.

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Zeke Faux

New America Fellow, 2023

Zeke Faux is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek , where he has spent a decade profiling and exposing the hustlers, scammers, and hedge fund managers who populate the shady side of Wall Street. He has won the Gerald Loeb award for explanatory business journalism and the American Bar Associationʼs Silver Gavel award, among others, for his reporting on predatory lending. He was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

Faux is the author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall , a book about the murky financial machinery behind the global cryptocurrency mania and the larger-than-life personalities who are upending the world of money for Crown Publishing.

This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of the completion of their fellowship project.

Selected Work

- Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? : A story for Bloomberg Businessweek about the wild search for the U.S. dollars supposedly backing the stablecoin at the center of the global cryptocurrency trade.
- A 30-Year-Old Crypto Billionaire Wants to Give His Fortune Away : A profile of cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried for Bloomberg Businessweek , exploring whether someone aiming to do good in the world should first try to get rich.
- Did Razzlekhan and Dutch Pull Off History’s Biggest Crypto Heist? : A story for Bloomberg Businessweek about the largest theft of cryptocurrency ever, the strange couple allegedly involved, and what the theft says about the safety and anonymity of cryptocurrencies.

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