Bloomberg OpinionFoxconn Foxconn Game of Thrones Looms as Its King AbdicatesBloomberg - Tim Culpan On June 11, for the first time in history, Foxconn Technology Group held an investor relations conference for its flagship company. That’s the good …
Bloomberg OpinionMonetary Policy The Fed Stands Pat While Big Questions LoomBloomberg - Editorial Board On Wednesday, as most investors expected, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for now, but said the case for cuts later in the year is …
Bloomberg OpinionMahathir Mohamad Mahathir Uses Huawei to Needle the U.S.Bloomberg - Daniel Moss China is definitely the new Japan. For Mahathir Mohamad, at least. That’s not because of its demographic challenges or the trade war with Washington, …
Bloomberg OpinionChina Trade Truce Is Becoming Less, Not More LikelyBloomberg - Tom Orlik It’s possible a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at next week’s G-20 summit will result in an …
Bloomberg OpinionJerome Powell Powell Is No Longer Failing to CommunicateBloomberg - Robert Burgess The consensus in the markets going into Wednesday was that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was in a no-win situation. Stocks had already …
Bloomberg OpinionJerome Powell Jerome Powell Is Playing ‘Survivor’ at the FedBloomberg - Mark Gongloff • The Fed gives markets what they want, but to what end? • Trump gives his base the same warmed-over promises. • China really seems to want a Lehman Brothers …
Bloomberg OpinionJerome Powell Bond Traders Have the Fed Firmly on Their SideBloomberg - Brian Chappatta Faced with an extraordinarily difficult situation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave bond traders exactly what they wanted in the central …
Bloomberg OpinionRussia Russia's Dumb Denials on the Downing of MH-17Bloomberg - Leonid Bershidsky Three Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged in the Netherlands for their alleged roles in downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern …
Bloomberg OpinionWyoming Frackers Get Not One But Two Coal-Mine CanariesBloomberg - Liam Denning Wyoming’s Powder River Basin has been generating some buzz in oil and gas circles as a potential source of new supply (as if oil and gas need that). …
Bloomberg OpinionFacebook Private Markets Could Be More PublicBloomberg - Matt Levine Here’s the way public stock markets work. If you like Apple Inc.’s stock, you can buy some. It costs $198.45 per share. Buy as many shares as you …
Bloomberg OpinionYouTube Let YouTube Be YouTubeBloomberg - Karl W. Smith YouTube’s latest attempt to crack down on hate speech has produced significant collateral damage. Policies designed to limit the spread of holocaust …
Bloomberg OpinionFDA Asbestos-Tainted Makeup Should Be a Wake-Up CallBloomberg - Editorial Board The beauty industry has come a long way since the days of arsenic scrubs and lead-based face creams. But maybe it hasn’t come far enough. Earlier …
Bloomberg OpinionOxford University Oxford, Please Don't Blow Schwarzman's MillionsBloomberg - Chris Hughes Stephen Schwarzman didn’t become a billionaire by wasting money. The Blackstone Group LP co-founder had better make sure that Oxford University …
Bloomberg OpinionU.S. Customs and Border Protection Southern Border Crisis Will End When Central America ProspersBloomberg - Noah Smith There is definitely a crisis at the U.S's southern border. In every month of the current fiscal year, apprehensions have been a lot higher than in …
Bloomberg OpinionMoney Germany Needs to Keep its Autobahns FreeBloomberg - Leonid Bershidsky Germany’s famed autobahns have lost an important source of funding. Their new management hoped the money would help them to ease congestion and …
Bloomberg OpinionUnited States The Bitcoin Scam, American Ideals and Serious EatsBloomberg - Barry Ritholtz • NBA All-Star Tony Parker Looks to Save Athletes From Blowing Their Fortunes (Bloomberg) • Inflation Is Dead: What’s Needed to Reanimate It? (Chief …
Bloomberg OpinionTaylor Swift Taylor Swift Has an Economics Lesson for YouBloomberg - Peter R. Orszag What if the music industry could be used as a guide to important principles in business and the economy? It would sure make introductory economics …
Bloomberg OpinionDonald Trump What Have Trump’s Rallies Accomplished?Bloomberg - Jonathan Bernstein Let's get one thing out of the way: There's nothing wrong with President Donald Trump designating Tuesday night's rally as his “official” campaign …
Bloomberg OpinionElizabeth Warren Trump Is Wrong About the Dollar — and So Is WarrenBloomberg - Tyler Cowen President Donald Trump is again on the warpath against “currency manipulation” from Europe. This week the complaint is that the European Central Bank …
Bloomberg OpinionSoftware Companies Slack Poised to Join Cloud Valuations Soaring Into Thin AirBloomberg - Shira Ovide time to go public. Investors have lost their minds about software companies. Earlier this year, I wrote about how stock buyers were willing to pay …
Bloomberg OpinionTrump Tower Trump's Orlando Rally Shows He's Running Out of New TricksBloomberg - Timothy L. O'Brien Four years ago, Donald Trump glided down an escalator into the lobby of Trump Tower, a building he regards as his signature accomplishment, for a …
Bloomberg OpinionEconomics Easier Monetary Policies Won't Boost Markets Much LongerBloomberg - Komal Sri-Kumar Following the rout in May, stock markets in the U.S. and globally have staged an impressive rebound this month. This is partly due to expectations …
Bloomberg OpinionFranz Kafka China’s Social Credit System Is More Kafka Than OrwellBloomberg - David Fickling What if you built a terrifying 21st century surveillance-and-control system and no one cared? That’s what appears to be happening with China’s …
Bloomberg OpinionMario Draghi Donald Trump Has a Point About Mario Draghi and the EuroBloomberg - Marcus Ashworth The euro area economy is in a real bind, as Mario Draghi admitted at this week's European Central Bank summit in Portugal. So he won’t have been too …
Bloomberg OpinionBoris Johnson Who Won the Tory Leadership Debate? Nigel FarageBloomberg - Therese Raphael We might have hoped for two small things from Tuesday night’s Conservative Party leadership debate: a clue as to how Britain’s next prime minister, …
Bloomberg OpinionEuropean Central Bank How to Build a European Banking ChampionBloomberg - Mark Gilbert Earlier this month, my colleagueElisa Martinuzzi suggested that merging Deutsche Bank AG and UBS Group AG would, on paper at least, create a European …
Bloomberg OpinionMario Draghi How Advanced Economies Are Looking More Like Emerging MarketsBloomberg - Mohamed A. El-Erian Yields on German government bonds on Tuesday ventured deeper into the uncharted territory of negative nominal levels, triggering various direct and …
Bloomberg OpinionPeople's Bank of China China’s Lehman Moment Is Drawing CloserBloomberg - Anjani Trivedi, Shuli Ren China’s central bank has acknowledged its monetary tools are insufficient. The most powerful ones are proving too blunt to drill through a hardening …
Bloomberg OpinionVladimir Putin Putin and Xi Are Going Soft on Protest. Why?Bloomberg - Leonid Bershidsky The apparent victory of Hong Kong protesters and a mini-thaw taking place in Russia are interesting departures from the usual practice of two regimes …
Bloomberg OpinionHaruhiko Kuroda Central Banks Don't Need New Tricks These DaysBloomberg - Daniel Moss The new central-banking toolkit looks a lot like the old one. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi drew President Donald Trump's ire Tuesday …
