China Tide Goes Out for China's Skinny-Dipping BanksBloomberg - Shuli Ren You only learn who’s been swimming naked when the tide goes out, as Warren Buffett observed in 2008. This earnings season, we’ll get to see who’s …
Elector Appeals Court Opens the Door to Electoral College ChaosBloomberg - Noah Feldman A federal appeals court has held that members of the Electoral College have a constitutional right to vote for a different presidential candidate …
United States How Slavery Hurt the U.S. EconomyBloomberg - Karl W. Smith The 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves in what was to become America has reopened an old debate: How important was slavery …
Opinion Fed Signals and Trade Wars: Theme of the WeekBloomberg - Brooke Sample There probably aren’t many people in the world who would want to be in Jerome Powell’s shoes right now. Warnings of economic weakness at home and …
Opinion 7-Cent Biscuits Are Too Pricey for Indian WorkersBloomberg - Andy Mukherjee When snack makers start to lament that Indians can’t afford to spend 5 rupees (7 cents) on biscuits, 1 it’s time to stop arguing over how much of the …
Opinion Trump’s Trade War Could be Fueling Amazon FiresBloomberg - David Fickling The fires currently consuming Brazil’s Amazon rainforest seem a world away from the tense diplomacy in the U.S. trade war with China. In truth, …
Opinion Torching Farmers and Ranchers Won’t Stop Fires in the AmazonBloomberg - Mac Margolis The world’s biggest tropical forest is back in the headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna are worried. NASA and Amnesty …
Opinion China’s Future and the Human Factor: Weekend EditionBloomberg - Brooke Sample Is the rest of the world getting China wrong yet again? Maybe the country is not doomed to live out unending top-down rule. What is history, after …
Boris Johnson What Boris Johnson Fears More Than a No-Deal BrexitBloomberg - Therese Raphael If U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems rather glib about the idea of his country crashing out of the European Union without a deal – an outcome …
South China Sea China’s Demands for Loyalty Are Bad for BusinessBloomberg - Ben Bland The standard advice for foreign investors in China used to be that they should stay out of politics and focus on business. Now that dictum has been …
Opinion The Fed Chair Gives the President a Dose of His Own MedicineBloomberg - Shira Ovide For months, President Trump has been savaging his hand-picked Federal Reserve chairman — possibly to scapegoat Jerome Powell and his Fed colleagues …
Opinion A Manufacturing Recession Is Here. Now What?Bloomberg - Brooke Sutherland To get Brooke Sutherland’s newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. The escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions has pushed the …
Opinion At the G7, Trump Is One of the Popular OnesBloomberg - Justin Fox Donald Trump is an unpopular president. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average as of Friday afternoon, only 43.3% of Americans approve …
Opinion The Patrick Byrne Show Distracted From Overstock’s WoesBloomberg - Joe Nocera It’s kinda, sorta funny, I suppose, that Patrick Byrne resigned Thursday as chief executive of Overstock.com Inc. a week after issuing a bizarre …
Opinion China’s Tariffs Show Why Trump Isn't Energy's FriendBloomberg - Liam Denning You really can have too much of a good thing. Or a bad thing. Or just a thing. By “thing,” I am referring in this case to President Donald Trump’s …
Opinion Overstock Loses a Spycatcher CEOBloomberg - Matt Levine In July I came forward to a small set of journalists regarding my involvement in certain government matters. No, I didn’t, I’m lying, that’s actually …
Jerome Powell Powell Admits Fed Has No Playbook for a Trump Trade WarBloomberg - Brian Chappatta Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell doesn’t like how President Donald Trump’s trade war is impacting the U.S. economy. To make matters worse, the …
Supernatural Science Requires Some Leaps, But No FaithBloomberg - Faye Flam When the universe was born, it was hostile to life. There wasn’t even any carbon until after the first stars forged it from lighter elements. We know …
Opinion The EU Can Push Bolsonaro to Save the AmazonBloomberg - Leonid Bershidsky French President Emmanuel Macron dropped a bombshell on Friday: His office said France is opposed to the ratification of the European Union’s latest …
U.S. Senate The Senate Will Be Fine Without the FilibusterBloomberg - Noah Feldman Democrats are talking seriously about ending the legislative filibuster once and for all, effectively changing the number of Senate votes required to …
Impeachment Does Pelosi Have a Plan for Impeachment?Bloomberg - Jonathan Bernstein I’m a lot more inclined to give Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats the benefit of the doubt than some, but it seems to me that the impeachment trains …
Opinion Putin Needs to Bury This Relic of StalinBloomberg - Leonid Bershidsky As Europe marks 80 years of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which carved up eastern Europe between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, Russia is trying …
Hasbro Hasbro's $4 Billion Peppa Pig Offer Looks a Little SkinnyBloomberg - Alex Webb At first glance, Entertainment One Ltd. and Hasbro Inc. make for ideal bedfellows. The former makes kids TV hit Peppa Pig, the latter is the world’s …
Carbon Earth Is Sizzling and Needs All the Help It Can GetBloomberg - Noah Smith As Greenland's glaciers melt, Siberia's permafrost turns to slush, the Amazon burns and the Arctic sizzles, this summer of record heat should serve …
Opinion The EU’s Next Bad Idea? A So-Called Sovereign Wealth FundBloomberg - Ferdinando Giugliano If you are searching for the EU’s next bad idea, look no further than the “European Future Fund.” The 100 billion euro ($110 billion) pot, first …
Bank of Canada What the Fed Could Learn From CanadaBloomberg - Narayana Kocherlakota The U.S. Federal Reserve has developed a pretty poor track record for meeting its inflation and employment goals. If it wants to do a better job, it …
Utilities Energy Stocks Make Utilities Look ExcitingBloomberg - Liam Denning Utilities are, by design, a bit of a snooze. We feel no excitement at the miracle of instantaneous light, television and coffee grinding, expecting …
Opinion Prince Harry’s Shaming Is Bad News for Private JetsBloomberg - Chris Bryant Given the swelling ranks of the world’s billionaires, you’d have thought the past 10 years would have been fabulous for private jet suppliers. In …
Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Macron's Bittersweet Brexit VictoryBloomberg - Lionel Laurent U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is barreling through Europe’s capitals with nothing concrete to say on Brexit beyond an unappealing offer of “new …
Meat For Business, Veganism Is the New VapingBloomberg - Andrea Felsted Big food is salivating over fake meat after the blockbuster initial public offering of Beyond Meat Inc., the leading plant-based protein brand, in …
