Zeke Faux, National Fellow, 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 working on 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.
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.
