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Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon

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Chief financial correspondent, Axios. Host, Slate Money. Follow @felixbot for my story feed.

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#44 0.001941 Recode
#139 0.000652 Reuters
#198 0.000814 BuzzFeed
#199 0.000487 Bloomberg Opinion
#235 0.000453 Ars Technica
#335 0.000574 Wired
#633 0.000319 Financial Times
#647 0.000229 Foreign Policy
#777 0.000175 The Economist
#831 0.000154 VICE
#856 0.000217 The New York Times
#929 0.000134 New Yorker
#1148 0.000118 The Atlantic
#2184 0.000008 Techcrunch
#3647 0.000015 Washington Post
#3903 0.000001 The Information
#4354 0.000001 OANN
#4375 0.000001 Newsmax
#4416 0.000001 Stat News
#4724 0.000001 The Verge
#5889 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5921 0.000001 CNBC
#6371 0.000006 The New York Post
#6749 0.000001 The Intercept
#7877 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8275 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Think Tanks

#107 0.000607 Eurasia Group
#647 0.000229 Niskanen Center
#780 0.000171 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1180 0.000043 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1471 0.000039 Adam Smith Institute
#1658 0.000090 Brookings
#2270 0.000054 Council on Foreign Relations
#3985 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4040 0.000001 Belfer Center
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#4441 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4852 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5135 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5644 0.000014 Mercatus Center
#5818 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6640 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7146 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7694 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8272 0.000010 American Enterprise Institute
#8272 0.000010 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8405 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Venture Capital

#315 0.000440 A16Z
#415 0.000378 Benchmark Capital
#998 0.000130 Khosla Ventures
#1437 0.000092 Village Global
#2045 0.000062 Initialized Capital
#3588 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3625 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4043 0.000001 Accel
#4415 0.000001 Sequioa
#4856 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5036 0.000001 Bessemer
#5338 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5556 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5569 0.000001 Index Ventures
#6094 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#488 0.000329 Social Epistemology
#704 0.000106 Harper's Open Letter
#717 0.000128 Effective Altruism
#1009 0.000118 Rationality
#1944 0.000070 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2091 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2638 0.000044 Ecomodernists
#3434 0.000021 The Long Now Foundation
#3567 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3613 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3715 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3749 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3790 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3802 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3814 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3865 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4094 0.000001 350.org
#4267 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4871 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5829 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5984 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6103 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6187 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6290 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6452 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6940 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7565 0.000001 EFF
#8633 0.000001 Anarachists
#9587 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Crypto

#664 0.000212 Crypto Journalists
#764 0.000186 Crypto VC
#3612 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3705 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3778 0.000001 Polkadot
#4627 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5140 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#5548 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5606 0.000001 Cosmos
#6537 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6808 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8631 0.000001 Ethereum
#8632 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8976 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#4398 0.000066 Baseline
#8650 0.000015 Think Tanks
#8686 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Science

#3491 0.000026 Epidemiology Journalism
#4119 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4532 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4683 0.000015 EconTwitter
#6150 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Informal Community

#5860 0.000020 Founders

Software Engineering

#3712 0.000001 Rust
#4516 0.000001 Zig

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