Tether Might Be Your Plumber’s Preferred Payment Soon

It’s still not uncommon for a domestic builder or plumber to ask for payment in cash. Soon, they might ask for Tether or another stablecoin...

wednesday 10

Paul J. Davies

The ‘Merge Canada’ Bit Isn’t Funny — It’s Cruel

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the “boring is beautiful” phase of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. There were two ways Canadian Prime...

wednesday 10

Jessica Karl

This Shutdown Is as Pointless as All the Others

With funding expired, new appropriations bills stalled and progress on a stopgap nonexistent, Congress has for the 15th time since 1981 allowed the...

wednesday 1

Editorial Board

Risky Bank Debt Is Rationally Exuberant

What’s the canary in the overpriced-asset coal mine? One obvious tweety bird is the riskiest type of bank debt, known as perpetual additional tier...

wednesday 10

Marcus Ashworth

Dig, Baby, Dig Won't Solve AI's Power Shortage

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . President Donald Trump’s tirade to the United Nations over climate...

wednesday 3

John Authers

The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable....

wednesday 5

Justin Fox

A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore

wednesday 1

Mark Gongloff

Gold Isn’t the Warning Ken Griffin Worries About

In the history of Wall Street, few have been as successful as Ken Griffin. Over the past three decades, he has built his Citadel hedge fund into a...

wednesday 3

Jonathan Levin

Reform UK Is Driving the Tory Party Out of Business

Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement carried out a hostile takeover of the US Republican Party a decade ago, the UK’s Conservatives are watching as...

wednesday 40

Rosa Prince

US Banks Are Taking Aim at a European Weak Spot

All’s fair in love and politics — and international bank capital rules. US financial watchdogs are making mischief with European standards that...

07.10.2025 6

Paul J. Davies

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

07.10.2025 20

Francis Wilkinson

Trouble Is Brewing in Solar Power’s Heartlands

Amid the Trump-induced crisis for clean energy this year, one beacon of hope has stood out: China. While other countries have been winding back...

07.10.2025 1

David Fickling

Best Evidence Yet That the Dollar Isn’t Dead

To say the roof hasn’t caved in on the dollar is an understatement. Despite the doomsaying that was pervasive after the White House imposed...

07.10.2025 9

Daniel Moss

China Is Joining Russia’s Shadow War on Europe

For decades, Europe exemplified post-Cold War peace. Today, it confronts enduring, escalating war. The coda to President Donald Trump’s peace talks...

07.10.2025 20

Hal Brands

Musk’s Cheap Teslas Are the Wrong Kind of Cheap

This has not been a vintage year for Tesla Inc. product launches. This summer, it launched a long-delayed robotaxi service that came with a free...

07.10.2025 2

Liam Denning

Taylor Swift’s ‘Showgirl’ Media-Blitz Had a Downfall

07.10.2025 2

Jason Bailey

Sports Bets at the Stock Exchange

07.10.2025 1

Matt Levine

The AI Suicide Problem Knows No Borders

06.10.2025 10

Catherine Thorbecke

OpenAI Is Good at Deals

06.10.2025 8

Matt Levine

US Gaza Plan Is Working, But Will Take Sustained Pressure

When Donald Trump returned to office promising to end to the war in Gaza, he not unreasonably touted his first term success in negotiating the so-...

06.10.2025 2

Marc Champion

Europe May Need to Fight a Currency War to Weaken the Euro

Six months after the Trump administration began its messy global tariff campaign, the euro area is weathering the storm, according to European...

06.10.2025 3

Lionel Laurent & Marcus Ashworth

Out of France, a Tale of Two Clichés

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Politics doesn’t matter to markets, until it does. The last few...

06.10.2025 3

John Authers

Gossip Won’t Get Japan Anywhere

06.10.2025 2

Jessica Karl

The US Needs Better Ways to Defend Against Drones

The Chinese military is racing to develop fearsome weapons that could help it prevail over the US in a Pacific war: hypersonic missiles, next-...

06.10.2025 2

Editorial Board

From Radical to Rihanna, the Myths About Japan’s Next Leader

The prospect of a new Japanese leader doesn’t always generate international excitement. But Sanae Takaichi’s somewhat surprising victory in to...

06.10.2025 3

Gearoid Reidy

Greenhushing Is (Whisper It) Coming for Carbon Removal

06.10.2025 2

Lara Williams

South Korea Should Turn the US ICE Raid Into Trade Leverage

06.10.2025 2

Juliana Liu

The Oil Market’s 2026 Tsunami Will Be Costly to Finance

The oil market is heading for an immense surplus in early 2026. How large? “Cartoonish,” reckons Macquarie Group Ltd., a bank with a huge...

06.10.2025 1

Javier Blas

Lame-Duck Macron Is Now a Sitting Duck Too

Sebastien Lecornu was supposed to be Emmanuel Macron’s “last-chance” man to keep his presidency on the rails through 2027. He has ended up as the...

06.10.2025 1

Lionel Laurent

The Battle to Rewire Stock Trading the Crypto Way Is On

The stock market as we know it is on the brink of a transformation. The crypto industry has long touted the potential for the underlying blockchain...

06.10.2025 1

Aaron Brown

US Politicians Need to Bone Up on Immigration Economics

The economics of immigration has a lot in common with the economics of trade. Lower barriers to imports raise growth and living standards in the...

06.10.2025 1

Clive Crook

Japan’s Iron Maiden Needs to Fire Abe’s Last Arrow

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Japan’s long-hegemonic Liberal Democratic Party has thrown...

05.10.2025 20

John Authers

The China Put in Oil Markets Will Reshape the World

05.10.2025 10

David Fickling

Why Are Indian-Americans so Silent on US Visa Curbs?

Over the past year, relations between India and the US have reached their lowest point in decades, perhaps since the South Asian nation tested...

05.10.2025 20

Mihir Sharma

Gen Z’s Rage in Asia Is Stoked By a Staggering Jobs Crisis

Youth-led protests across Asia in recent months have centered on corruption, elitism and censorship. But behind Gen-Z’s anger lies something even...

05.10.2025 10

Karishma Vaswani

Who’s Responsible for These Terrible Cars, Planes and Shoes?

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a trough for AI slop of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the week past and...

05.10.2025 7