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Pakistan’s Secret Weapon Can Help It Rebuild After Floods

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David Fickling

Keir Starmer Needs a Better Answer to Reform UK

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Editorial Board

Markets Are Wondering What It All Means

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John Authers

On Vaccines, Florida Man Has Gone Too Far

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Jonathan Levin

When Will Trump Get Tough on Putin? Maybe Never

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Marc Champion

Japan Deserves Far Better Leadership Than This

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Gearoid Reidy

China Is Using the Pacific Islands to Squeeze Out Taiwan

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Karishma Vaswani

Klarna IPO, Mergers and Other Deals Don’t Augur a Banking Boom

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Paul J. Davies

Shut Down the Government to Save Health Care

Shut Down the Government to Save Health Care

A lot of Democratic voters are looking for a fight, and a lot of Democratic politicians are looking to accommodate them. As it happens, the...

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Matthew Yglesias

Texas Republicans Are Ignoring Their Voters — Again

Texas Republicans Are Ignoring Their Voters — Again

More than 800 new laws took effect in Texas last week, the result of a busy legislative session in the Republican-controlled state. While much of...

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Mary Ellen Klas

The Business World Has the End-of-Summer Blahs

The Business World Has the End-of-Summer Blahs

I’m Kristen Bellstrom, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, an embrace of the strategic direction of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we...

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Kristen Bellstrom

China Shows the World It’s Ready to Shake Things Up

China Shows the World It’s Ready to Shake Things Up

This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web...

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Brooke Sample

NASA’s Moon Race With China Needs a Better Plan

NASA’s Moon Race With China Needs a Better Plan

There’s bipartisan agreement that the US needs to be the first country to establish a permanent base on the moon. This is crucial because failure...

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Thomas Black

Mass Deportations Are Creating a Workforce Crisis

Mass Deportations Are Creating a Workforce Crisis

The American workforce is now short 1.2 million workers — the result of the harshest, most aggressive campaign ever waged to drive immigrants from...

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Patricia Lopez

Tesla Is Offering Musk a $1,000,000,000,000 Ransom

Tesla Is Offering Musk a $1,000,000,000,000 Ransom

Tesla Inc.’s latest Master Plan is, as I noted here, too vague to be an actual plan. The real details have dropped soon after in the form of a...

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Liam Denning

The Fed Saw These Jobs Numbers Coming

The Fed Saw These Jobs Numbers Coming

Nonfarm payroll growth slowed to just 22,000 in August, and the unemployment rate rose slightly. Meanwhile, yields on two-year Treasury notes...

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Jonathan Levin

Will 150-Year-Olds Get in Xi Jinping’s Way?

Will 150-Year-Olds Get in Xi Jinping’s Way?

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a crisis-crunching cavalcade of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Amid the military precision during...

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Howard Chua-Eoan

The One Leftist the White House Tolerates (for Now)

The One Leftist the White House Tolerates (for Now)

As odd political partnerships go, the rapport between US President Donald Trump and Mexico’s leftist leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, is among the least...

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Juan Pablo Spinetto

Regrets, Republican Senators Have a Few

Regrets, Republican Senators Have a Few

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s performance in a three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee showed why the Health and Human Services Secretary...

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Nia-Malika Henderson

The Crackdown on Cities Will Actually Make Them Less Safe

The Crackdown on Cities Will Actually Make Them Less Safe

As President Donald Trump continues to talk about sending federal agents — and possibly National Guard troops — to the streets of Chicago and other...

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Erika D. Smith

BMW, the Anti-Tesla, Is Playing the Long Game on EVs

BMW, the Anti-Tesla, Is Playing the Long Game on EVs

It’s easy to be gloomy about European automakers facing intense competition from technologically sophisticated and lower cost rivals like BYD Co....

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Chris Bryant

How Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Fixation Adds Up for Me

How Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Fixation Adds Up for Me

I was 13 when I figured out the Antichrist. My grandfather had hired me at his electrical supply shop in Manila’s Chinatown and sat me on a stool in...

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Howard Chua-Eoan

Europe May Freeze If This Ocean Current Collapses

Europe May Freeze If This Ocean Current Collapses

To most people, adapting to climate change means preparing for warmer temperatures. It’s why we’re finally getting some long-overdue reservoirs in...

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Lara Williams

Western Dysfunction Is Bolstering China

Western Dysfunction Is Bolstering China

The post-game analysis of this week’s gathering near Beijing of non-Western leaders is in. The spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra...

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Marc Champion

Can Australia Achieve a Third Golden Age?

Can Australia Achieve a Third Golden Age?

Australian economics has come a long way since John Maynard Keynes trashed the arguments of Billy Hughes, who led the country during World War I....

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Daniel Moss

Miran’s Side Gig Should Disqualify Him From the Fed

Miran’s Side Gig Should Disqualify Him From the Fed

The message from Stephen Miran at his Senate confirmation hearing to fill a vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was simple: Don’t...

04.09.2025 9

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Jonathan Levin

Who Does Trump Fire If He Hates This Jobs Report?

Who Does Trump Fire If He Hates This Jobs Report?

After the release of a disappointing July US employment report early last month, President Trump fired the head of the agency that produced it....

04.09.2025 10

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Justin Fox

A Sovereign Wealth Fund for the US Is a Great Idea, Actually

A Sovereign Wealth Fund for the US Is a Great Idea, Actually

The US should have an investment fund — a sovereign wealth fund if you like — that lays out clear rules for government funding of companies. It can...

04.09.2025 10

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Nir Kaissar

Epstein’s Victims Aren’t a Hoax

Epstein’s Victims Aren’t a Hoax

Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein have a direct message for Congress — particularly for Republicans who spent years calling...

04.09.2025 3

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Nia-Malika Henderson

Singapore Thrived in a US-Led World. Now What?

Singapore Thrived in a US-Led World. Now What?

If you want a glimpse of a changing global order, go to Singapore. That’s what I did last month, when I served as the S. Rajaratnam Professor of...

04.09.2025 2

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Hal Brands

China’s AI Chips Push Is Facing the Ultimate Test

China’s AI Chips Push Is Facing the Ultimate Test

Is China’s artificial intelligence sector finally taking the plunge and shifting away from Nvidia Corp. in favor of homegrown chips? Fresh...

04.09.2025 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

Private Assets Need Public Buyers

Private Assets Need Public Buyers

The basic situation in asset management is that the alternatives managers have the products and the traditional managers have the customers. For a...

04.09.2025 1

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Matt Levine

Yvette Cooper Has Escaped the Immigration Mess. How?

Yvette Cooper Has Escaped the Immigration Mess. How?

One topic dominated the UK political conversation this summer: immigration — how to stop and what to do with the increasing numbers of desperate...

04.09.2025 8

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Rosa Prince

Sports Team Owners Like to Win

Sports Team Owners Like to Win

Professional sports present an unusual financial puzzle, in that they reward finding clever ways to lose money. Most owners of companies would...

03.09.2025 9

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Matt Levine

The White House? More Like the Fun House

The White House? More Like the Fun House
03.09.2025 1

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Justin Fox

China’s Military Parade Shows Who’s Calling the Shots

China’s Military Parade Shows Who’s Calling the Shots

The message from China’s lavish military parade on Wednesday was unmistakable: Beijing has the weaponry, allies and ambition to shape a new global...

03.09.2025 6

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Karishma Vaswani

Tesla-Killer Batteries Don’t Belong With BYD

Tesla-Killer Batteries Don’t Belong With BYD

It was an announcement calculated to set the automotive world on fire: BYD Co., the world’s biggest electric vehicle manufacturer, unveiled a...

03.09.2025 10

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David Fickling

Xi Has No Choice But to Love Chinese Stocks

Xi Has No Choice But to Love Chinese Stocks

Unlike Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping is not known for caring about stock-market returns. As recently as 2021, the government went...

03.09.2025 2

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Shuli Ren