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Private Research Is the New Public Research

Private Research Is the New Public Research

The big differences between private companies and public companies are: Those two things traditionally go together: Public companies can sell stock...

yesterday 6

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Matt Levine

Trump Can’t Put the Epstein Genie Back in the Bottle

Trump Can’t Put the Epstein Genie Back in the Bottle

Conspiracy theories, particularly those that involve and seem to implicate the rich and powerful, are hard — maybe impossible — to contain. They’re...

yesterday 10

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Timothy L. Obrien

Is Summer Camp a Petri Dish for Measles?

yesterday 0

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Jessica Karl

‘Wahaha Princess’ Reveals China’s Uncommon Prosperity

yesterday 0

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Shuli Ren

Ukraine’s Has a Self-Inflicted Handicap in Its War for Survival

yesterday 0

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Marc Champion

Why Rumors About China’s Political Elite Won’t Stop

yesterday 0

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Karishma Vaswani

UK Parliament Is Falling Down. Doing Nothing Is Not an Option.

yesterday 0

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Rosa Prince

Republicans Fall Into the Same Inflation Trap as Democrats

Republicans Fall Into the Same Inflation Trap as Democrats

Imagine driving a car on the freeway at rush hour by looking only in the rearview mirror. Impossible, right? And yet that’s akin to how the White...

yesterday 9

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Robert Burgess

Winter Is Coming for Oil — And Not in a Positive Way

Winter Is Coming for Oil — And Not in a Positive Way

The oil market is deceptively calm. Below the apparent tranquility lies an underappreciated transformation that has slowly reshaped the market over...

yesterday 9

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Javier Blas

RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure

RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure

It’s not too late for Senate Republicans to begin correcting the worst mistake they’ve made this year: confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as...

yesterday 8

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Michael R. Bloomberg

Japan Just Caught Up With the Rest of the World

Japan Just Caught Up With the Rest of the World
previous day 1

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John Authers

A Looming Dairy Drought Will Stunt the World’s Growth

A Looming Dairy Drought Will Stunt the World’s Growth

It’s every baby’s first food, and we can’t get enough of it. The world produces close to a billion metric tons of milk each year — more than...

previous day 4

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David Fickling

The Global War On Public Holidays Is Far Too Lazy

The Global War On Public Holidays Is Far Too Lazy

Worries about fiscal sustainability and tepid economic growth are enticing governments to embrace a simple but controversial step: reduce the...

previous day 2

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Chris Bryant

India’s Millions of Jobseekers Are Short on Skills

India’s Millions of Jobseekers Are Short on Skills

India’s destiny for centuries to come will be determined by the young people joining its workforce today. A few years ago — in 2019, by some...

previous day 2

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Mihir Sharma

When Will Luxury's Perfect Storm Pass?

When Will Luxury's Perfect Storm Pass?

Luxury is out of fashion. The sector is facing a perfect storm. Chinese spending, the industry’s growth engine for so long, has stalled. There are...

previous day 2

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Andrea Felsted

Japan’s Leader Has Lost His ‘Mandate From Heaven’

Japan’s Leader Has Lost His ‘Mandate From Heaven’

Shigeru Ishiba was long considered an outside prospect to become Japan’s leader — so much so that he once said it would take the involvement of the...

previous day 1

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Gearoid Reidy

Crypto Week Was the Worst Art Exhibit in Years

Crypto Week Was the Worst Art Exhibit in Years

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the full faith and credit of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the week...

previous day 2

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Tobin Harshaw

Bipartisan Outrage Over Epstein Is Just What America Needs

Bipartisan Outrage Over Epstein Is Just What America Needs

The controversy over the mysterious “Epstein Files,” which President Donald Trump’s administration first pledged to release and then decided not...

previous day 10

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Matthew Yglesias

Summer Camps Are Returning to Their Elitist Roots

Summer Camps Are Returning to Their Elitist Roots

“What are we going to do with the kids this summer?” Halfway through July, some iteration of that question continues to be raised in homes across...

previous day 1

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Stephen Mihm

Bessent’s Big Risk Could End Up Costing Taxpayers

Bessent’s Big Risk Could End Up Costing Taxpayers

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

previous day 10

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Brooke Sample

MAGA Evangelicals Love Their Sinners More Than They Hate Sin

MAGA Evangelicals Love Their Sinners More Than They Hate Sin

Time was that the Republican Party was the party of family values, troubled and incensed by the supposed sins and moral failings of Democrats like...

previous day 7

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Nia-Malika Henderson

F1’s Growing Pains With Apple Would Be Worth It

F1’s Growing Pains With Apple Would Be Worth It

Fresh off earning a box office hit with F1, the movie, Apple Inc. has reportedly outbid ESPN for the US broadcast rights to F1, the actual sport....

saturday 7

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Adam Minter

The Most Valuable Menopause Fitness Hack

The Most Valuable Menopause Fitness Hack

Earlier this year, I glommed onto a trend that is sweeping women of a certain age in the US: I became a woman who lifts. Admittedly, describing...

saturday 20

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Lisa Jarvis

New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car

New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car

At a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in Washington this week, Representative Jerry Nadler of Manhattan and...

saturday 1

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Justin Fox

One Is the Loneliest Number. But It’s Great for Grok.

One Is the Loneliest Number. But It’s Great for Grok.

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a hermetically-unsealed revelation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . The story goes that a young...

18.07.2025 6

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Howard Chua-Eoan

Exxon Benefits From a Pyrrhic Defeat Against Chevron and Hess

Exxon Benefits From a Pyrrhic Defeat Against Chevron and Hess

Exxon Mobil Corp. is one of the oil industry’s most litigious companies, always ready to take a rival, a government, a green campaigner or even...

18.07.2025 2

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Javier Blas

Republicans’ Surprise Gambling Tax Rolls the Dice on Young Men

18.07.2025 2

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Erika D. Smith

Don’t Make a Dumb Trade War Any Dumber

Don’t Make a Dumb Trade War Any Dumber

It’s Christmas in July for trade hawks. Each day seems to bring more ill-conceived and capricious new tariffs from the White House. Sweeping import...

18.07.2025 1

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Editorial Board

Work More to Earn Less: France’s New Revolution

Work More to Earn Less: France’s New Revolution

There’s been only one topic of conversation in the brasseries of France this week: Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s proposal to scrap two of three...

18.07.2025 1

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Lionel Laurent

The State Department Upheaval Makes China Great Again

The State Department Upheaval Makes China Great Again

She had not seen the axe coming for her specifically, one Foreign Service Officer told me. (She wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.)...

18.07.2025 1

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Andreas Kluth

Brits Keep a Sweaty Upper Lip on Air Conditioning

Brits Keep a Sweaty Upper Lip on Air Conditioning

There’s a somewhat gratifying TikTok trend at the moment where Americans visiting London in a heatwave realize that, yes, British heat does “hit...

18.07.2025 2

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Lara Williams

ICE Deportation Plans Betray a Post-Holocaust Promise

ICE Deportation Plans Betray a Post-Holocaust Promise

A new memo outlines plans by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport potentially thousands of immigrants to countries that are not their own....

18.07.2025 10

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Noah Feldman

Regulating Stablecoins Will Take a Genius Act, and This Isn’t It

Regulating Stablecoins Will Take a Genius Act, and This Isn’t It

If this session of Congress is remembered for anything, it may be for its poorly named its legislation. First there was the One Big Beautiful Bill,...

18.07.2025 1

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Allison Schrager

Trade Deal Fumble Could Be Ishiba’s Last Mistake

Trade Deal Fumble Could Be Ishiba’s Last Mistake

Shigeru Ishiba’s rise to Japanese prime minister once seemed so unlikely, it felt like a fever dream. Nearly 10 months later, Ishiba has lasted...

17.07.2025 3

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Gearoid Reidy

Nuclear Submarine Holdup Is a Gift to China

Nuclear Submarine Holdup Is a Gift to China

“AUKUS” might be the worst-sounding acronym in the long and undistinguished history of military acronyms: an awkward amalgam of Australia, the UK...

17.07.2025 3

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James Stavridis

The Chevys in Mexico Are Made in China

The Chevys in Mexico Are Made in China

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the bilateral trade deficit of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. Would you believe me if I told you that...

17.07.2025 2

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Jessica Karl

China’s Asian Supply Chains Aren’t a Sham

China’s Asian Supply Chains Aren’t a Sham

In the two US trade deals with Southeast Asia so far, there has been an obvious, unacknowledged presence of a third party: China. President Donald...

17.07.2025 4

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Andy Mukherjee

Elon Musk Is Cashing In on the AI Romance Boom

Elon Musk Is Cashing In on the AI Romance Boom

Elon Musk is a no-holds-barred kind of tech billionaire. So too are his new AI companions. Two characters have been added this week to Grok, the...

17.07.2025 2

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Parmy Olson