menu_open Columnists
Justin Fox

Justin Fox

Bloomberg

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Government Contracting Is an Easy But Elusive Target

Government Contracting Is an Easy But Elusive Target
27.03.2025 1

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

How Past Failures to Rein In Federal Sprawl Led to DOGE

05.03.2025 5

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

No, Elon Musk Hasn’t ‘Discovered’ Fraud at Social Security

18.02.2025 60

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

Can More Roads Lead to More Weddings and Babies?

14.02.2025 10

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

Trump ‘Opened’ the Water in California and Wasted It

05.02.2025 3

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

Los Angeles May Rise From the Ashes But Won’t Be Transformed

25.01.2025 8

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

The Best Predictions for 2025 Are Actually About 2024

I’m Justin Fox, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a carefully hedged forecast of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . What will 2025 be...

01.01.2025 20

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

How Baggy Are Your Jeans? And 10 Other Charts to Explain 2024

I’m Justin Fox, and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a graphical representation of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . It was a year of...

30.12.2024 10

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

21.12.2024 10

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

14.12.2024 5

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 7

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 3

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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,...

11.10.2024 9

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 3

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 3

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 6

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 4

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

16.09.2024 6

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

19.08.2024 3

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

14.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 weirder?...

08.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

06.08.2024 4

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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 to...

27.07.2024 4

Bloomberg

Justin Fox

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...

26.07.2024 2

Bloomberg

Justin Fox