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Indonesia’s Showdown With Apple Is Far From Over

Indonesia’s Showdown With Apple Is Far From Over

Indonesia isn’t taking a step back from its hardball approach to Apple Inc. The showdown has turned into quite a spectacle, but it’s unlikely the...

yesterday 20

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Catherine Thorbecke

In Trump’s Fantasy World, Fish Set Fire to Los Angeles

In Trump’s Fantasy World, Fish Set Fire to Los Angeles

In what’s becoming a somewhat commonplace event, we’ve been inundated with apocalyptic images this week, currently emanating from Los Angeles....

yesterday 10

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Lara Williams

Delta Cracked the Code for Post-Pandemic Profits

Delta Cracked the Code for Post-Pandemic Profits

Delta Air Lines Inc.’s competitive moat is only growing wider and deeper. The Atlanta-based airline on Friday reported fourth-quarter earnings...

yesterday 9

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Thomas Black

Yes, Trump Could Declare an Economic Emergency for Tariffs

Yes, Trump Could Declare an Economic Emergency for Tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly is considering declaring a national economic emergency to give him legal cover to impose tariffs. Wait, you...

yesterday 4

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Noah Feldman

Hong Kong-Dollar Peg Makes Less Sense Than Ever

Hong Kong-Dollar Peg Makes Less Sense Than Ever

Whenever the Federal Reserve turns more hawkish and the cost of dollar funding soars, debate over whether Hong Kong should change its currency’s...

yesterday 4

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Shuli Ren

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a coup de théâtre of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . South Korea is often held up as a harbinger...

yesterday 4

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Howard Chua-Eoan

It's Time to Rethink How Safe Alcohol Is

It's Time to Rethink How Safe Alcohol Is

January is that time of year when we pause to examine our health habits, and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory with an important...

yesterday 10

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Lisa Jarvis

Britain Has Failed Vulnerable Children for Too Long

Britain Has Failed Vulnerable Children for Too Long

The scale of Britain’s child-exploitation scandal almost defies belief. Between the late 1980s and the early 2010s, thousands of young girls,...

previous day 6

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The Editorial Board

Gilts Yields Surge, and So Do Truss Sequel Fears

Gilts Yields Surge, and So Do Truss Sequel Fears

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . The global bond selloff is unnerving for many reasons, but perhaps...

previous day 6

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John Authers

A TikTok Ban Would Harm College Sports’ Have-Nots

A TikTok Ban Would Harm College Sports’ Have-Nots

On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether TikTok should be banned in the US on January 19. Mia Manson, a pole vaulter at...

previous day 5

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Adam Minter

When the Far Right Wins in Hitler’s Birthplace

When the Far Right Wins in Hitler’s Birthplace

Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, looks set to welcome its first far-right Chancellor since World War II, in the form of Freedom Party head...

previous day 4

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Marc Champion

Bankers Need the Right Trump Outcome to Justify Stock Optimism

Bankers Need the Right Trump Outcome to Justify Stock Optimism

US investment banks have little room for error in their upcoming full-year results. With share prices of almost all the major firms at or close to...

previous day 3

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Paul J. Davies

South Korea Needs to Move on From This Crisis

South Korea Needs to Move on From This Crisis

South Korea’s prolonged political crisis appears to have no end in sight. It’s just over a month since President Yoon Suk Yeol declared, then...

previous day 3

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Karishma Vaswani

Presidents Shouldn’t Play Politics With Fire

As (bad) luck would have it, both President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom were in Los Angeles this week, arriving just in time for some of...

previous day 2

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Erika D. Smith

Trump Must Keep the US in the World Health Organization

Trump Must Keep the US in the World Health Organization

One truth traveled the world with Covid-19: When infectious diseases spread, no one is safe until everyone is safe. If no mechanism for...

previous day 2

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Gordon Brown

Boeing Investors Shouldn’t Bank on a GE-Style Windfall

Imagine a game show host whips out a card sometime in the near future and reads: “This pioneering manufacturing company is a conglomerate...

previous day 1

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Thomas Black

Add Aviation to the Long List of German Industries in Trouble

Add Aviation to the Long List of German Industries in Trouble

Planning a trip to Germany this year? Good luck finding an affordable flight. Unlike much of the rest of Europe, where flying has fully recovered...

previous day 20

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Chris Bryant

China’s DeepSeek Shows Why Trump’s Trade War Will Be Hard to Win

China’s DeepSeek Shows Why Trump’s Trade War Will Be Hard to Win

Breakthroughs in AI are so common these days it is hard to separate the truly important from the merely incidental. But one recent development is...

previous day 10

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Tyler Cowen

The LA Fires Are Only the First Act in This Tragedy

The LA Fires Are Only the First Act in This Tragedy
previous day 10

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Jessica Karl

Private Equity’s Bad Tidings in UK Holiday Retail

Private Equity’s Bad Tidings in UK Holiday Retail

Britain’s Christmas shopping season always spawns winners and losers. This year it was the big, listed chains that dominated. It’s a theme that...

previous day 20

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Andrea Felsted

The Central Bank Might as Well Run South Korea

The Central Bank Might as Well Run South Korea

Central banks often punch below their weight in the public realm. Yet these institutions can wield huge power and unleash profound consequences. In...

wednesday 30

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Daniel Moss

How ‘Far Right’ Is Germany’s AfD Party?

When Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a regional election last year, global headlines proclaimed the first far-right victory in...

wednesday 40

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Katja Hoyer

Calpine Rides a Power Renaissance Fueled by AI — and Gas

Calpine Rides a Power Renaissance Fueled by AI — and Gas

Calpine Corp.’s buyout in 2018 symbolized the end of an era. Is it now heralding a renaissance? Calpine is said to be close to selling itself to...

wednesday 6

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Liam Denning

Milei’s Strong Start Has Proved Skeptics Wrong

Milei’s Strong Start Has Proved Skeptics Wrong

Javier Milei’s first year as president of Argentina has confounded his critics. Most viewed his promises of radical reform as crazy or unworkable....

wednesday 5

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The Editorial Board

California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance

California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance

The wildfires terrorizing Los Angeles this week have been like something out of a movie: vast, fast-moving, unpredictable, merciless. Their scope...

wednesday 20

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Mark Gongloff

How to Make Greenland Great Again

How to Make Greenland Great Again

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the gulf of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . So, let me get this straight: Donald Trump got reelected...

wednesday 10

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Jessica Karl

How New York Can Hold Banks to Their Climate Pledges

How New York Can Hold Banks to Their Climate Pledges

With Donald Trump soon to enter the White House, you’re more likely to be eaten by a shark than to see meaningful climate action at the federal...

wednesday 10

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Mark Gongloff

Be Wary of Sam Altman’s AI Doublespeak

Be Wary of Sam Altman’s AI Doublespeak

Remember when OpenAI’s nonprofit board unceremoniously fired Sam Altman? It was a four-day spell in the wilderness for the chief executive...

wednesday 8

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Parmy Olson

H-1B Backlash Shows Indians They’re Not So Special Anymore

H-1B Backlash Shows Indians They’re Not So Special Anymore

Indians have long been proud of what they see as their outperformance in the information technology sector. Companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Tata...

wednesday 10

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Mihir Sharma

Under Trump, More Countries Could Get Nukes

Under Trump, More Countries Could Get Nukes

As world leaders come to grips with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House, they should weigh immediate but also second-order...

wednesday 7

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Andreas Kluth

US-China Tech Breakup Is a Race to the Bottom

US-China Tech Breakup Is a Race to the Bottom

A messy, ongoing tech breakup between the US and China is forcing a rethink about what the industry might look like for consumers in a decoupled...

wednesday 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

Bond-Yield Breakout Is Much More Than Inflation

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Score another win for the Ragin’ Cajun. James Carville, Bill...

wednesday 6

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John Authers

Chill, Baby, Chill: Biden’s Offshore Oil Ban Is Just Politics

If an oilfield out in the middle of the sea that was never going to be drilled gets banned by a lame-duck president, would anyone care? Congress...

wednesday 4

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Liam Denning

UK Bonds Are Victims of the World’s Inflation Worries

With 30-year UK government bond yields having soared to the highest since 1998, we are again plunged back into crisis mode in the grandmother of...

wednesday 2

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Marcus Ashworth

Can Howard Marks Spot a Stock Bubble Twice?

Can Howard Marks Spot a Stock Bubble Twice?

Most people assume that the S&P 500 Index will go up over long holding periods. Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel popularized the proposition...

wednesday 5

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Jonathan Levin

Whooping Cough Vaccine Has an Awareness Problem

Whooping Cough Vaccine Has an Awareness Problem

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a...

wednesday 3

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Lisa Jarvis

Everyone Wants a Silicon Valley Wealth Machine

Everyone Wants a Silicon Valley Wealth Machine

Take a trip round the Mira Technology Park and you may find reports of the British car industry’s impending doom exaggerated. The zone in the...

wednesday 7

Bloomberg

Matthew Brooker

Newsom Shouldn’t Rely on EV Mandates to Persuade Drivers

Newsom Shouldn’t Rely on EV Mandates to Persuade Drivers

President-elect Donald Trump has no love for electric vehicles. If there were any doubts about how that might shake out in terms of policy once...

wednesday 30

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Erika D. Smith

How a $2.6 Trillion Fund Was Taken for a Ride

India’s market regulator has unearthed a plot to allegedly generate millions of dollars in illegal gains through the legitimate trades of a large...

wednesday 20

Bloomberg

Andy Mukherjee

Why Would Trump Buy Greenland When He Can Rent It?

Why Would Trump Buy Greenland When He Can Rent It?

President-elect Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, having previously likened it to a giant real estate deal. If so, he seems to have...

07.01.2025 20

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Liam Denning

The US Health-Care System Is Flawed By Design

The US Health-Care System Is Flawed By Design

The middlemen that comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health-care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the...

07.01.2025 10

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The Editorial Board

Bitcoin Is Not a Nothing, But Not a Something Either

Bitcoin Is Not a Nothing, But Not a Something Either

A few weeks ago, a reader emailed to challenge what he described as our “cautionary, skeptical and net negative” stance on Bitcoin. To make the...

07.01.2025 100

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Mark Gilbert

Next Sounds the Alarm About the UK Consumer

Next Sounds the Alarm About the UK Consumer

As usual, Next Plc has defied the festive gloom and delivered a good Christmas, upgrading its profit outlook for the current fiscal year. The...

07.01.2025 10

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Andrea Felsted

Zuckerberg and Meta Drop Their Misinformation Charade

Zuckerberg and Meta Drop Their Misinformation Charade

Mark Zuckerberg’s video announcement on Tuesday that the company would abandon its fact-checking efforts and loosen moderation marks a stunning...

07.01.2025 10

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Dave Lee

Apple’s AI Is Proving It’s Anything But Intelligent

Apple’s AI Is Proving It’s Anything But Intelligent

A couple of days after the iPhone 5 was announced in 2012, I met with Apple Inc. for one of the off-the-record briefings the company likes to give...

07.01.2025 9

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Dave Lee

Google's Most Serious Rival Isn't Microsoft. It’s a Startup.

Google's Most Serious Rival Isn't Microsoft. It’s a Startup.

The AI boom of the past two years has largely been a two-horse race. Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.-funded OpenAI have duked it out...

07.01.2025 9

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Parmy Olson

How New Yorkers Will Adjust to Congestion Pricing

How New Yorkers Will Adjust to Congestion Pricing

New York City’s congestion pricing plan is now in place, and some very early returns are in. However imperfectly — the tolls have been in effect...

07.01.2025 2

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Tyler Cowen

Scott Bessent Can Break China’s Stubborn Central Bank, Too

Scott Bessent Can Break China’s Stubborn Central Bank, Too

Scott Bessent, the man who helped George Soros break the Bank of England in 1992, can also sow chaos at the People’s Bank of China, another...

07.01.2025 6

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Shuli Ren

Elon Musk’s Euro Trolling Puts a Rocket Under SpaceX

Elon Musk has crossed a line with his latest attacks on the UK government, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says. Are there any lines left? Musk has...

07.01.2025 2

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Lionel Laurent

Democrats Have Their Own ‘Weird’ Problem

As Democrats continue their election post-mortems, they ought to do an autopsy on one of their favorite words of 2024: weird. When Minnesota...

07.01.2025 2

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Frank Barry

Costco Is Beloved Enough to Win Its Anti-DEI Fight

Costco Is Beloved Enough to Win Its Anti-DEI Fight

Costco Wholesale Corp. has made a business out of doing things its own way. It pioneered and perfected the high-low formula, selling bulk toilet...

07.01.2025 20

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Beth Kowitt

Doomscrolling Is the Real Universal Language

Doomscrolling Is the Real Universal Language

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a timepass of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . They say nearly every culture has a dumpling. Poland...

07.01.2025 9

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Jessica Karl

Markets Better Get Used to Trump’s Manic Mondays

Markets Better Get Used to Trump’s Manic Mondays

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . We must get used to this. Capital markets’ first day back in...

07.01.2025 10

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John Authers

A Weaker Euro Won't Solve the EU's Problems This Time

A Weaker Euro Won't Solve the EU's Problems This Time

Parity between the euro and the dollar is starting to look inevitable, and that would normally be a competitive boon for a manufacturing export-led...

07.01.2025 30

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Marcus Ashworth

The Future of the Middle Class Is ‘Low-Skilled’ Work

The Future of the Middle Class Is ‘Low-Skilled’ Work

Many US workers start the new year following some time off for the holidays. It’s hard to put an exact number on just how many but consider that...

07.01.2025 60

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Kathryn Anne Edwards

Biden’s Steel Move Is No Way to Treat an Ally

Biden’s Steel Move Is No Way to Treat an Ally

The most telling moment in the Biden Administration’s decision to block Nippon Steel Corp.’s attempted takeover of United States Steel Corp....

06.01.2025 10

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Gearoid Reidy

Will Scott Bessent Be a Loyalist or a Moderating Voice?

Will Scott Bessent Be a Loyalist or a Moderating Voice?

Investors seem both reassured and intrigued by the prospect of Scott Bessent as the next Treasury secretary. Reassured, because Bessent is...

06.01.2025 5

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The Editorial Board

MBA Class Project Got a Bit Too Real

I have never been to business school, but I gather that a certain amount of the curriculum involves pretending to do business stuff. You get a...

06.01.2025 100

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Matt Levine

How Trump Can Achieve Sustained 3% GDP Growth

How Trump Can Achieve Sustained 3% GDP Growth

The incoming Trump administration has set a goal of growing the economy by 3% per year, similar to promises made during Donald Trump’s first term...

06.01.2025 10

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Ernie Tedeschi

'Timepass' Is India's Way of Lying Flat

'Timepass' Is India's Way of Lying Flat

In the quirky world of Indian English, “timepass” is of relatively recent vintage. Its first known appearance was in a newspaper article from...

06.01.2025 20

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Andy Mukherjee

The UK Can Find Its Place in Trump’s America

The UK Can Find Its Place in Trump’s America

What happens in the US economy doesn’t always stay there, particularly when it comes to the UK. With this in mind, a delicate balance of...

06.01.2025 10

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Mohamed A. El-Erian

China Vanke’s Year of Reckoning Has Finally Arrived

China Vanke’s Year of Reckoning Has Finally Arrived

In China, no private enterprise is too big to fail, especially when market narratives change and a new industry dynamic takes shape. China Vanke...

06.01.2025 2

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Shuli Ren

Trump’s Trash Talk Revives the Worst of World Politics

Trump’s Trash Talk Revives the Worst of World Politics

Donald Trump, just weeks from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a...

06.01.2025 2

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Andreas Kluth

Musk’s DOGE Should Put Government’s ‘Customers’ First

Musk’s DOGE Should Put Government’s ‘Customers’ First

No rational person would take Donald Trump’s promises to be fiscally responsible literally or seriously. His campaign commitments on taxes and...

06.01.2025 3

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Clive Crook

Privatize the USPS? Not in an Era of Crony Capitalism

Privatize the USPS? Not in an Era of Crony Capitalism

President-elect Donald Trump is said to be interested in the privatization of the US Postal Service, a prospect that also appeals to his DOGE...

06.01.2025 3

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Tyler Cowen

Your Happy New Year Depends on Trump and Inflation

Your Happy New Year Depends on Trump and Inflation

To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Happy Jan. 6. A date that has taken its place in infamy should be...

06.01.2025 3

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John Authers

Tesla and Waymo Should Learn From 2024’s Air Crashes

Tesla and Waymo Should Learn From 2024’s Air Crashes

If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like...

06.01.2025 4

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David Fickling

Syria's New Leader Deserves US Help — But Not Its Trust

Syria's New Leader Deserves US Help — But Not Its Trust

If, just a few months ago, one had tried to sketch out the best plausible scenario for Syria, it would have looked much like what we see today: the...

06.01.2025 2

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Marc Champion

Europe’s Summer Will Bring Worries About Next Winter’s Gas

Europe’s Summer Will Bring Worries About Next Winter’s Gas

Most years, few have to worry about natural gas from April to September. In Europe, the winter season is over and, barring a small number up north,...

06.01.2025 3

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Javier Blas

Three Ways the Fed's Message Falls Short — and How to Fix Them

Three Ways the Fed's Message Falls Short — and How to Fix Them

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has indicated that the central bank’s communication will be part of its 2025 monetary policy review. That...

06.01.2025 1

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Bill Dudley

Musk and His Critics are Both Wrong About Free Speech on X

Musk and His Critics are Both Wrong About Free Speech on X

Elon Musk is in a free-speech fight over his decision to demonetize the content of some far-right MAGA critics who disagreed with his immigration...

06.01.2025 4

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Noah Feldman

For Democrats, Less News Is Bad News

For Democrats, Less News Is Bad News

Ben Wikler, the chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party and a leading contender to run the country’s, has won some acclaim from liberals for making...

06.01.2025 2

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Matthew Yglesias

ECB's Lagarde Faces a Make-or-Break 2025

ECB's Lagarde Faces a Make-or-Break 2025

Every central banker has a make-or-break moment. As the euro crisis raged in 2012, then-European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi took to describing...

06.01.2025 4

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Lionel Laurent

Don’t Let Trump Whitewash the Truth About Jan. 6

Don’t Let Trump Whitewash the Truth About Jan. 6

History, the saying goes, is written by the victors. That particular flex is in motion today, the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 siege at the US...

06.01.2025 5

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Timothy L. O&x27Brien

The Asian Dream Is Waking Up to Reality

The Asian Dream Is Waking Up to Reality

How quickly is Asia’s middle class growing? Not as fast as it needs to keep pace with aspirations. Policymakers need to focus on boosting...

06.01.2025 9

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Karishma Vaswani

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