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On, Comet! On, Cupid! Wait, Who Are Dunder and Blixem?

A poem appeared anonymously 201 years ago this month in a newspaper in Troy, New York, telling of a jolly St. Nicholas with twinkling eyes, dimpled...

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Is Regulation a Drag on the Economy? Depends Who You Ask

A regulatory U-turn is coming in Washington, the third in less than a decade. President-elect Donald Trump’s deregulatory bent will clearly be a big...

14.12.2024 3

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Health-Care Spending Is Sinking the Federal Budget

The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit in the fiscal year that ended in September was the third biggest ever in dollar terms, trailing only the...

04.12.2024 20

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How a Washington, DC, Suburb Became the Safest Place in America

The safest place in America, subject to some qualifiers that I’ll get to, lies just across the Potomac River from the high-crime District of...

19.11.2024 60

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Austin Exposes New York City’s Broken Housing Market

Here’s something that would have seemed pretty much inconceivable two years ago: According to Zillow, home prices have now risen more in New York...

09.11.2024 9

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GDP Is Stronger With a Blue White House and Red States

The last US gross domestic product numbers to be released before the election, out last week, put inflation-adjusted growth since Joe Biden took...

04.11.2024 4

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Haven’t Worked at the Same Place for 10 Years? Join the Club

Been with the same employer for 10 years or more? That doesn’t exactly make you a rarity in the US, where 30.2% of employed wage and salary workers...

17.10.2024 10

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You’re Probably Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago

Are you better off than you were four years ago? The simplest answer to the classic presidential-election-year question appears to be that yes, most...

11.10.2024 10

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Is Biden’s Economy Overstimulated? Not Compared With Trump’s

Economic growth has been markedly stronger during Joe Biden’s presidency than it was during Donald Trump’s, with real gross domestic product...

03.10.2024 7

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Washington Isn’t Hogging Wealth Like London or Paris

The US Census Bureau recently released 2023 median income data, and as it has almost every year since 2005, 1 Loudoun County, Virginia, topped the...

30.09.2024 6

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Biden’s Economic Record Beats Trump’s, With Some Caveats

Included in this week’s gross domestic product release were revisions of the past five years of GDP and related data. They make Joe Biden’s...

27.09.2024 30

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Police and Victim Data Finally Agree That Crime Is Falling

After increasing in 2020 and 2021, violent crime as reported to and by police has been declining in the US. But does that truly mean violent crime —...

20.09.2024 7

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Why Is New York City So Safe?

New York City is not as safe as it was before the pandemic and protests of 2020. The number of New Yorkers killed in homicides rose 59% from 2019 to...

16.09.2024 8

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How Google and Microsoft Took Control of AI

I’m Justin Fox, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a manually assembled selection of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . When Sam...

09.09.2024 3

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Bad News For Cargill Could Be Good News For You

I’m Justin Fox, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a multigrain assortment of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . These are lean(ish)...

05.09.2024 4

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Crime Keeps Falling. When Will Voters Believe It?

The Major Cities Chiefs Association reported recently that, in the 69 large US cities and counties from which it received data, violent crime was down...

19.08.2024 4

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Are Kamala Harris and Tim Walz True Baby Boomers?

The sudden rise of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, and her choice of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as...

14.08.2024 8

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Harris Didn’t Fail Her Border Task. But Did She Succeed?

In March 2021, two months after she and President Joe Biden took office, Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned the task of addressing the “root...

09.08.2024 6

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Your Political Party Is Weirder Than Mine

I’m Justin Fox, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a moderately weird compilation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . What’s...

08.08.2024 6

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Trump Doesn't Know It, But ‘Black Jobs’ Are Thriving

Former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last week has become...

06.08.2024 5

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The Cookie Apocalypse Has Been Postponed

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, an overloaded cookie tray of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Cookies of the physical sort are said...

27.07.2024 8

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Tech Jobs Keep Moving Out of California. Don’t Panic Yet.

It has been a weird four years for California’s technology sector. It boomed early in the Covid-19 pandemic as people in the US and around the world...

26.07.2024 10

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McKinley Was a Game Changer, But His Tariffs Weren’t

William McKinley is an example of somebody who did an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice. His biggest booster for most of the...

23.07.2024 6

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Amtrak’s Failures Are Wired Into the System

Every time I pass by the new railroad bridge rising 50 feet above the Hackensack River in the New Jersey Meadowlands, which is visible from both...

15.07.2024 8

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No, AI Won’t Use All the Electricity

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a beautiful cabin crew of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . Ah, artificial intelligence. Is it...

12.07.2024 3

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No, Illegal Migrants Aren’t Fueling a Crime Wave

In March 2020, President Donald Trump’s administration sealed US borders in what was billed as a measure to fight the spread of Covid-19. The...

26.06.2024 10

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I Didn’t Think Biden Affected Crime Rates. I Was Wrong.

The first-quarter US crime statistics released last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation were a doozy, in a good way. Every single main crime...

18.06.2024 5

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Strange Things Lurk Under the Hood of the Payroll Numbers

As the monthly nonfarm payroll employment numbers repeatedly blew past economists’ forecasts over the past couple of years, one small sector in...

17.06.2024 9

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How Did the US Eclipse Europe in Productivity? Mass Layoffs

After the start of the Covid-19 pandemic brought fear and lockdowns in early 2020, many European countries acted quickly to preserve jobs. In Germany,...

11.06.2024 10

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Gig Work Isn’t Living Up to Its Hype

How big is the gig economy, and how fast is it growing? The answers, according to official US employment statistics, are (1) not very and (2) it...

06.06.2024 4

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Americans Are Still Adventurous. They Just Hate Moving.

The percentage of Americans who move each year keeps falling, with a lowest-on-record 7.8% of US residents reporting to the Census Bureau in spring...

31.05.2024 20

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Coworking Is Moving to the Suburbs

What is flexible office space for? In the heyday of WeWork Inc., the answer seemed to be a big party. WeWork’s high-design, amenity-filled urban...

24.05.2024 20

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The Iceberg Lettuce Revival Has Wilted

The first two decades of the 21st century saw a revival of culinary interest in iceberg lettuce, an American staple that had lost out to other...

18.05.2024 10

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Why Biden Isn’t Getting More Credit for Roads and Bridges

As president, Donald Trump was a serial failure when it came to passing infrastructure legislation, with repeated “Infrastructure Weeks” that came...

14.05.2024 20

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US Government Debt Is Big. Demand For It Is Bigger.

I’m Justin Fox and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a heavily indebted compilation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here.Is $34.6 trillion...

14.05.2024 50

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More McMansions Can Help Solve America’s Housing Crisis

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...

09.05.2024 40

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Buffett and Berkshire’s Entertainment Value Is Waning

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a gigantic conglomerate that owns a bunch of boring businesses outright and has big stakes in a few arguably less-boring...

05.05.2024 20

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America Wasn’t Made for Walking, and It’s Killing Us

About a year and a half ago, I became one of Those People who track how many steps they walk each day. I know there’s nothing magical about the...

05.05.2024 40

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Stabilized NYC Rents Are Rising With Inflation. That’s Good.

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted again this week to allow rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments. Or did it? The board tentatively...

02.05.2024 20

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The Work-From-Home Era Is Bad for Burglars

The number of burglaries in the US fell 9.8% last year, according to the quarterly crime report released last month by the Federal Bureau of...

14.04.2024 30

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Without Immigrants, US Working-Age Population Would Shrink

In 2007, 4,316,233 babies were born in the US, just beating out the previous record of 4.3 million set at the peak of the baby boom in 1957 —...

11.04.2024 20

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Punching TikToks Are Part of a Real New York Crime Wave

The number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters, aka homicides — the most reliably measured crimes as well as the most serious — fell in New...

08.04.2024 10

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How to Invest in AI — Before AI Takes All Your Money

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a lucrative portfolio of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . If you’ve been watching a lot of American...

03.04.2024 8

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How Many Gig Workers Are There? Depends on How You Ask

Our understanding of the US labor market is based to a remarkable extent on a few questions asked each month as part of the Current Population Survey,...

02.04.2024 9

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E-Bikes Aren’t Making New York Any Deadlier If You’re Walking

It’s a common sight at Manhattan intersections: An impatient or oblivious pedestrian edges a step or two onto a busy avenue well before the light...

27.03.2024 6

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Who Will Save the US Wine Industry? Not California Boomers

A pleasant way to while away a few minutes (or hours if you’re really into it) is to visit the American Viticultural Area Map Explorer hosted by the...

24.03.2024 40

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Illegal US Border Crossings Aren’t Really Breaking Records

The number of people who are apprehended by US Border Patrol agents or voluntarily surrender to them at or near the border with Mexico has skyrocketed...

20.03.2024 20

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New York City Is Back! (To Pre-Covid Employment Levels)

Three years and 10 months after New York City began shutting down in the face of Covid-19, nonfarm 1 payroll employment in the city finally surpassed...

15.03.2024 10

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Older People Don’t Want to Work After the Pandemic

It has now been four years since the US job market went into an unprecedented freefall because of the Covid-19 pandemic. With that anniversary and the...

14.03.2024 10

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The Wealthy Are Starting to Have More Babies Than the Poor Again

For most of human history (and probably prehistory), higher male status was linked to having more children. This relationship between positive status...

12.03.2024 50

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