11 Facts About Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon wrote a Wired cover story on the Gaussian copula, and has hosted Slate Money podcast since 2014.

Felix Salmon's ancestors include Jews who bore the surname Solomon before it was anglicized as Felix Salmon.

Felix Salmon has an MA in art history from the University of Glasgow along with an Honours background in mathematics.

Felix Salmon moved to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1997.

Felix Salmon began blogging in 1999 for the wire service Bridge News and later worked for economist Nouriel Roubini.

Felix Salmon published an article in Wired magazine on 27 December 2010 explaining high-frequency trading on Wall Street.

Since 10 May 2014, Felix Salmon has hosted the weekly 'Slate Money' podcast along with regular Slate financial columnist Jordan Weissmann and financial blogger Cathy O'Neil, who left the program in 2017 and was replaced by Anna Szymanski, a former emerging markets risk analyst.

Fusion was loosely managed and somewhat chaotic; Felix Salmon produced "as far as anyone could tell, nothing in particular" in his time there.

Felix Salmon is an advocate of further federal stimulus spending, arguing that America's economic institutions have failed to respond effectively to the crisis, and that the benefits of improving America's infrastructure and hiring public workers far outweigh the federal government's low borrowing costs during the period of the Eurozone debt crisis.

Felix Salmon has argued that no regulatory solution is capable of dealing with the societal risks posed by the too-big-to-fail banking conglomerates and extremely complex financial innovations of the modern market.

In 2021, Felix Salmon published an article alleging that $400 billion in unemployment benefits had been fraudulently claimed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a claim provided only by a fraud prevention service company that contracts with state governments to prevent such fraud.