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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...
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,...
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...
The current retreat from global economic cooperation is strangely timed. You might have expected, or at least hoped, that a worldwide pandemic on...
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...
The images defy belief: entire cities under water, babies being airlifted by helicopter, first responders and residents navigating by boat through...
Michael Cohen — fixer, confidant and pit bull — is expected to take the witness stand on Monday in the criminal fraud trial of his former...
Everyone is worried about the excessively high level of US government debt. Everyone, that is, except America’s creditors. Take last week’s...
Why do particles have mass? That was a question that preoccupied the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs. His proposed explanation...
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...
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...
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...
Like clockwork, the commodities market worries in May about the strength of oil demand heading into the northern hemisphere summer holiday....
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...
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...
Singapore is undergoing a rare transition in leadership, the third since independence in 1965. More frequent have been the accolades directed at...
Skeptics of the “no limits” partnership between Russia and China argue that their past conflict, disparity of power, mutual distrust and...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a recent drastic advancement of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the...
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...
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...
For years, the Democrats' political and rhetorical approach to abortion was the Bill Clinton model. Make it safe, legal, and rare. Three decades...
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...
Two Conservative Members of Parliament have recently crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the opposition Labour Party, which is the...
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...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a bouquet of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Communist Vietnam’s founding father Ho Chi Minh...
The University of Georgia just committed to paying Kirby Smart, its football coach, $130 million over the next decade. It’s a record-setting...
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...
A new analysis of a controversial study affirms something menopause experts have long argued: For many women, the benefits of short-term hormone...
A normally low-key nonpartisan election for the Georgia Supreme Court has turned into a fierce political fight over abortion in an important...
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...
In the US stock market, investors have been conditioned to hold onto their winners. The Magnificent Seven were so-named because most of them —...
Labour did very, very well in last week’s local elections: Anyone who tells you otherwise can be comfortably ignored. Conservatives looking for...
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,...
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...
President Joe Biden’s efforts to counter China have been most effective when they’ve enlisted allies and least productive when they’ve pandered...
House Republicans delivered a much-needed, no-holds-barred rejection of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s power grab on Wednesday,...
There is broad agreement that the US housing market needs more homes . There is also broad agreement that affordability needs to improve. But it...
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...
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...
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...
Just two years ago, Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo boasted about his country’s success, saying it was the result of political unity,...
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...
Alphabet’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, Google DeepMind, has yet again knocked the socks off scientists with its latest iteration of...
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-...
Norfolk Southern Corp. Chief Executive Officer Alan Shaw won the day at the railroad’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, beating back a...
A third year into an unprecedented housing downturn, China’s President Xi Jinping seems to be finally getting worried, prompting speculation of...
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...
When Microsoft Corp. invested more than $10 billion for a chunk of OpenAI, scientists inside its storied research division were rankled about being...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 produced a gold mine...
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....
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...
An inability among some of Asia’s largest economies to generate sufficient green electricity is catching global attention and threatens their...
If you listen to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, you might think that cheap electric cars and...
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...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Points of Return often argues for caution on stocks. It never...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Investing in Formula One was once only for motorsport masochists; teams splurged on technology in an often fruitless quest for glory, with some...