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Why Are Americans So Angry While Chinese Are Calm?

It was not supposed to turn out this way. The US economy is strong, its labor market is tight, and people are spending. But a large chunk of the...

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Shuli Ren

Anglo American CEO Needs to Kill Some Darlings

Back in October, the boss of Anglo American Plc took some of the company’s top shareholders to dinner. Under pressure to turn around performance,...

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Javier Blas

Labor’s Declining Share Is Worrisome and Mysterious

There is some bad news afoot for workers. Labor’s share of the US gross domestic product has been falling for a long time, by seven percentage...

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Tyler Cowen

Global Economic Cooperation Remains Key to National Prosperity

The current retreat from global economic cooperation is strangely timed. You might have expected, or at least hoped, that a worldwide pandemic on...

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Clive Crook

Goldman’s ‘No Return’ Market May Still Surprise

Wall Street strategists are worried that US stocks are on a trip to nowhere, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go along for the ride. Goldman...

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Jonathan Levin

Brazil’s Floods Expose Latin America’s Vulnerabilities

The images defy belief: entire cities under water, babies being airlifted by helicopter, first responders and residents navigating by boat through...

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Michael Cohen Will Lead Trump’s Jury to the Heart of Darkness

Michael Cohen — fixer, confidant and pit bull — is expected to take the witness stand on Monday in the criminal fraud trial of his former...

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Timothy L. O&x27Brien

Where’s the Bond Market’s Breaking Point? It’s Not $35 Trillion

Everyone is worried about the excessively high level of US government debt. Everyone, that is, except America’s creditors. Take last week’s...

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Robert Burgess

What Comes After the Large Hadron Collider?

Why do particles have mass? That was a question that preoccupied the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs. His proposed explanation...

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The Editorial Board

This Round of Inflation Data Will Matter Greatly

Here we go again. Brace for the latest dose of critical data on US inflation over the next three days, as the New York Federal Reserve publishes...

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John Authers

The European Union Should Burnish Its Bonds for Prime Time

Now that the European Union has sold €513 billion ($550 billion) of debt, a stockpile poised to reach at least €800 billion by 2026, the bloc...

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Marcus Ashworth

UK Should Use NatWest Windfall to Seed a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Governments are good at frittering money away. The UK’s planned sale of its holding in lender NatWest Group Plc shouldn’t become the next...

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Chris Hughes

Nevermind Those EVs — Oil Demand Keeps Growing

Like clockwork, the commodities market worries in May about the strength of oil demand heading into the northern hemisphere summer holiday....

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Javier Blas

Sanctioning One Billionaire Might Just Save a Nation

Georgia is having its “Maidan moment.” With parallels to Ukraine mounting fast, the question for the US and Europe is how to respond; for the...

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Marc Champion

Why India Struggles to Keep Its Food Safe

Sugar in baby cereal. Pesticide in spices. Why can’t India keep its food safe? Poor regulation and sketchy monitoring are the usual suspects in...

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Andy Mukherjee

Singapore’s New PM Faces Some Economic Headwinds

Singapore is undergoing a rare transition in leadership, the third since independence in 1965. More frequent have been the accolades directed at...

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Daniel Moss

Putin Can’t Offer Enough for China’s Help in Ukraine

Skeptics of the “no limits” partnership between Russia and China argue that their past conflict, disparity of power, mutual distrust and...

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Minxin Pei

Take This Job and Shove It — at a Robot

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a recent drastic advancement of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the...

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Tobin Harshaw

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Party Runs Out of Patience

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Brooke Sample

Mansion Taxes Won’t Improve Housing Affordability

From a purely political standpoint, a “mansion tax” is a genius idea. Who could be against it? Only swells who live in mansions, that’s who. So...

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Matthew Yglesias

Working Moms Have a Secret: We Love Our Jobs

If I say to you “working mom,” what image pops into your mind? A girlboss with a baby in a briefcase? An employee who can’t be fully committed...

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Sarah Green Carmichael

Democrats Need to Tell the Whole Story About Abortion

For years, the Democrats' political and rhetorical approach to abortion was the Bill Clinton model. Make it safe, legal, and rare. Three decades...

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Nia-Malika Henderson

Tariffs and Timidity Are Driving US Carmakers into a Ditch

Faced with the greatest challenge of the 21st century, America is giving up. Just 18 months ago, President Joe Biden was celebrating the passage of...

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David Fickling

Tory Party Defectors Flee a Clearly Sinking Ship

Two Conservative Members of Parliament have recently crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the opposition Labour Party, which is the...

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Martin Ivens

Gen Z Can Teach Asset Managers a Thing or Two

Imagine you’re an investment pro at one of the UK’s big asset managers. You’ve been doing this for 20 years, made many hundreds of company...

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Merryn Somerset Webb

Vietnam Was Plus One, Now It’s a Question Mark

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a bouquet of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Communist Vietnam’s founding father Ho Chi Minh...

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Howard Chua-Eoan

The Gravy Train Is Ending for NCAA Football Coaches

The University of Georgia just committed to paying Kirby Smart, its football coach, $130 million over the next decade. It’s a record-setting...

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Adam Minter

Stop Protecting New-Car Dealers

Americans can buy almost anything online. Why not new cars? In much of the US, would-be buyers must still visit a dealership. States protect these...

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The Editorial Board

A Shocking Number of Doctors Don’t Understand Menopause

A new analysis of a controversial study affirms something menopause experts have long argued: For many women, the benefits of short-term hormone...

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Lisa Jarvis

Georgia Supreme Court Race Turns Into a Battle Over Abortion

A normally low-key nonpartisan election for the Georgia Supreme Court has turned into a fierce political fight over abortion in an important...

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Mary Ellen Klas

Trump and Big Oil Are a Match Made in Climate Hell

If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal...

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Mark Gongloff

Druckenmiller Sold Some Nvidia Stock. Don’t Panic.

In the US stock market, investors have been conditioned to hold onto their winners. The Magnificent Seven were so-named because most of them —...

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Jonathan Levin

Labour Must Not Ignore the Voters It's Losing

Labour did very, very well in last week’s local elections: Anyone who tells you otherwise can be comfortably ignored. Conservatives looking for...

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Morgan Jones

Apple’s Influence Has Peaked, But Its Products Haven’t

Apple unveiled a record stock buyback plan last week even as it increased its dividend by 4%, to 25 cents per share. That made the market happy,...

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Tyler Cowen

Do You Want the Good or Bad News on Tornadoes and Hurricanes?

If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did...

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Mark Gongloff

US Should Let Allies Help With Ship Shortage

President Joe Biden’s efforts to counter China have been most effective when they’ve enlisted allies and least productive when they’ve pandered...

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The Editorial Board

Marjorie Taylor Greene Finally Got What She Deserved: Defeat

House Republicans delivered a much-needed, no-holds-barred rejection of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s power grab on Wednesday,...

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Patricia Lopez

We Actually Need to Build More Luxury Homes. Here’s Why.

There is broad agreement that the US housing market needs more homes . There is also broad agreement that affordability needs to improve. But it...

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Conor Sen

More McMansions Can Help Solve America’s Housing Crisis

I’m Justin Fox and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a six-bedroom compilation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . About 10,000...

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Justin Fox

Bed Bath Strikes From the Beyond

In the first few months of 2023, on its way into bankruptcy, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. sold a ton of stock. In January 2023, it had about 117.3...

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Matt Levine

BBVA Should Just Walk Away From Sabadell

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA has gone hostile in its pursuit of smaller Spanish rival Banco de Sabadell SA in a highly unusual move both for...

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Paul J. Davies

Panama’s New President Inherits a Success Story Gone Wrong

Just two years ago, Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo boasted about his country’s success, saying it was the result of political unity,...

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Nuevo presidente de Panamá no hereda la potencia de antaño: JP Spinetto

Hace apenas dos años, el entonces presidente de Panamá Laurentino Cortizo se jactaba del éxito de su país, diciendo que era el resultado de la...

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Inventing Drugs Is One of the Most Exciting Uses of AI

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has yet again knocked the socks off scientists with its latest iteration of...

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Lisa Jarvis

China Takes a Potshot at US Campus Protests

China hasn’t missed a beat when it comes to the chaotic scenes at American universities, after some colleges called in local police to quell pro-...

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Karishma Vaswani

Norfolk Southern CEO Shaw Survives, But Not Without a Warning

Norfolk Southern Corp. Chief Executive Officer Alan Shaw won the day at the railroad’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, beating back a...

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Thomas Black

China’s Housing Mess Finally Comes for Xi’s Own

A third year into an unprecedented housing downturn, China’s President Xi Jinping seems to be finally getting worried, prompting speculation of...

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Shuli Ren

Woe Is Rishi Sunak, Leader of a Broken Tory Party

The one thing that a divided Britain can agree upon is that Rishi Sunak is a disappointment. The Labour Party accuses him of clinging onto power...

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Adrian Wooldridge

Microsoft’s Hedge Against OpenAI Makes Perfect Sense

When Microsoft Corp. invested more than $10 billion for a chunk of OpenAI, scientists inside its storied research division were rankled about being...

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Parmy Olson

What Will Decide the Election? Probably Not the Economy

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 produced a gold mine...

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John Authers

The Plight of the Tongue-Tied Polyglot

Facemasks have almost completely vanished from New York and London, but a noticeable number of people on the streets of Hong Kong still wear them....

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Howard Chua-Eoan

Gap’s Met Gala Denim Moment Was Stunning — and Smart

Among the many luxury brands showing off their lavish creations at the Met Gala this week were a handful of more mainstream names. One standout was...

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Andrea Felsted

North Asia Desperately Needs a Green Energy Alliance

An inability among some of Asia’s largest economies to generate sufficient green electricity is catching global attention and threatens their...

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Tim Culpan

Hungary and China Are Fellow Travelers in a $10,000 Electric Car

If you listen to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, you might think that cheap electric cars and...

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David Fickling

Gen Z’s Kvetching Is Part of an Age-Old Tradition

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a whiny compilation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . The members of Generation Z have a lot of...

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Jonathan Levin

It’s Dangerous to Stay Out of Stocks

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Points of Return often argues for caution on stocks. It never...

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John Authers

It’s Time for India to Get Off the Fence on Ukraine

The news from Ukraine is not good. Russia is once again bombing Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, while its soldiers are threatening to break...

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Mihir Sharma

Apple’s Tone-Deaf iPad Ad Triggers Our Darkest AI Fears

I find it hard to believe that no one on Apple Inc.’s marketing team saw this coming. Maybe they were too timid to speak up. Perhaps they were...

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Dave Lee

Putin’s Next Target May Be the ‘NATO Lake’

With the addition this year of Sweden and last spring of Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Baltic Sea has been dubbed a...

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James Stavridis

Bad Service Is in England’s Cultural DNA

Every nation has its eternal truth. Brazil is the country of the future — and always will be. In Britain, where the obsequious butler or maid is...

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Matthew Brooker

BHP’s Fussy Anglo American Pitch Calls for Extra Premium

You can overcome most objections to a deal just by offering to pay more. BHP Group Ltd.’s attempted takeover of rival miner Anglo American Plc...

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Chris Hughes

Zuckerberg’s Free AI Is a Clever Form of Bait

There’s a persistent mystery about Mark Zuckerberg, and it’s not the one about his new chain necklace. The chief executive officer of Meta...

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Parmy Olson

Formula One Races Away From Being Just a Money Pit

Investing in Formula One was once only for motorsport masochists; teams splurged on technology in an often fruitless quest for glory, with some...

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Chris Bryant

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