Politics
UN Chief Rips Vaccine Inequity; Biden Plans Order: Virus Update
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Merkel Gives Home-Stretch Boost to Laschet’s Slumping Campaign
Politics
Trudeau’s Win Puts Capitalists in ‘Penalty Box,’ Economist Rosenberg Says
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Biden Plans Donation of 500 Million Pfizer Shots, Doubling Goal
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Banks Emerge as Election Losers on Trudeau ‘Rifle Shot’ Tax
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House Democrats Risk Rift by Teeing Up Infrastructure Vote First
Tech
Google Worker Unrest Rises After Removal of Russia Voting App
Opinion
David Fickling
China Needs a Lehman-Level Meltdown to Crash Its Steel Mills
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- From the way metal prices have moved in recent weeks, it looks like the wheels are falling off China’s property market.
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Matthew Yglesias
AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Dress Could've Used a Different Slogan
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended last week’s Met Gala wearing a dress emblazoned with the slogan, “Tax the Rich.
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Daniel Moss
Fully Vaccinated? Great News. Now Stay Home
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Got both shots? Great, now please stay home. High vaccination rates may not be the passport to economic reopening and a thriving social life that we’d once hoped.
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Chris Bryant
Oops, I Accidentally Created a Mini SPAC Meme Stock
Retail investors are targeting SPACs whose shareholders (often hedge funds) exercise en masse their right to ask for their money back, rather than fund their blank-check mergers
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Therese Raphael
Boris Johnson Rearranges His Cabinet. It Could Use a Redesign.
Reshuffle is the right word for it — as in, take a deck of cards and mix it around. Boris Johnson’s new cabinet is mainly populated by names of those who have already been part of the ministerial team
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Shuli Ren
Evergrande Gives China an Impossible Equation to Solve
A restructuring at the world’s most indebted real estate developer is looming. The Chinese government has already hired financial advisors to assess China Evergrande Group
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Tae Kim
Apple’s New IPhones May Be the Weakest Upgrade Ever
For the more than 1 billion iPhone enthusiasts around the world, no product unveiling is more anticipated than Apple Inc.’s annual reveal of its newest lineup of smartphones. Except for maybe this time.
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Alexis Leondis
Two Big Mistakes in the Latest Democratic Tax-Hike Plan
The tax committee in the House of Representatives released some long-awaited details Monday of how Democrats plan to raise taxes on top earners to help pay for social programs
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Anjani Trivedi
The Next Best Electric Car Battery Is Here, Cheaper Than Ever
There’s no shortage of excitement for electric vehicle battery startups or multibillion dollar investments in the industry, as companies, backers and scientists look for the winning play. China, though, is already moving on to the next leg in the race
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Andreas Kluth
What Germany’s Left Parties Get Right, and So Very Wrong
For most of the 31 years since German reunification, it was unthinkable: the prospect that the heirs of East Germany’s communist dictatorship might return to govern the country as part of a ruling coalition.
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David Fickling
Covid Is on Its Way to Becoming Just Another Virus
In the days before Covid, I’d often get frustrated by the response that doctors would give when I turned up at their clinics with some infection or other: “It’s just a virus,” they’d say.
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Alexis Leondis
The Latest Tax-Avoidance Trick Probably Isn’t for You
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- There’s an insurance trick that the uber-rich are already using to avoid paying the higher taxes proposed by Democrats to finance their spending plans.
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Tae Kim
GameStop Has Big Advantages Technology Startups Would Die For
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- GameStop Inc. announced its latest quarterly earnings late Wednesday and investors responded the way they have after every release going back a year
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Noah Smith
Texas Abortion Law Ends an Era of Business Pragmatism
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Texas’ bizarre new abortion law has thrown the country into an uproar.
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Zev Chafets
Israel’s Rising Covid Cases Aren’t So Scary This Time
Israel now has the world’s highest rolling weekly average of new Covid cases. That’s been something of a shock and begs the question of whether the country’s pandemic plan has worked
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Chris Hughes
Goldman Sachs Needs This IPO to Go Extremely Well
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. doubtless wants every initial public offering it’s involved in to go well. But the U.S. investment bank has a lot riding on one in particular: the potential London listing of Petershill Partners.
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Lena Komileva
The Federal Reserve Faces Its Greatest Pandemic Test Yet
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Federal Reserve has met the historic challenge of navigating the world’s largest economy through a pandemic.
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Lionel Laurent
Anxiety About Gaming Should Be Over Money, Not Morals
It’s tempting to mark this week’s news of video-game restrictions in China and a U.K. law intended to make the internet safer for children as just another episode in the long, ludicrous history of moral panic in gaming
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Andy Mukherjee
A $50 Phone Can Unleash a Credit Revolution Across the Globe
A smartphone widely believed to be priced below $50, likely the world’s cheapest, will start selling a week from now.
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Leonid Bershidsky
Like It or Not, Porn Can Still Be an Engine for Tech Progress
Online porn has critically shaped the internet as we know it. Two recent public debates show that the sex industry still has a role to play in setting the direction of technological progress.
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Ruth Pollard
The U.S. Knew the Truth About Afghanistan. It Didn't Listen
Global leaders have spent these last critical weeks asking themselves: “What went wrong in Afghanistan?” They’d be better off asking: “What did do wrong in Afghanistan?”
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Jared Dillian
Fidelity's Hiring Spree Is a Cautionary Signal
When I heard the news that Fidelity Investments plans to make 9,000 new hires, mostly in client-facing and technology-related positions, I immediately thought of the old adage that Wall Street hires on the highs, and fires on the lows.
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Marcus Ashworth
The ECB Should Take a Page From the Fed's Playbook
Although European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde did not present at this year’s virtual Jackson Hole symposium, the Federal Reserve’s annual central bank policy forum, she was surely paying close attention.
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Jared Dillian
Junior Bankers Have Been Underpaid for Way Too Long
Young Wall Street analysts are benefitting from the war for talent among investment banks. Compensation has soared tens of thousands of dollars in recent months, with some firms now offering as much $120,000 a year.
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Stuart Trow
Should I Sell When the Stock Market Wobbles? Some Advice
Clearly putting all your eggs into one basket (or one index) is a dangerous and risky thing to do. Had investors balanced their enthusiasm for Japanese stocks by also tracking a global index since 1989, they’d have been able to offset the Nikkei’s loss.
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Andy Mukherjee
Banking Could Go the Way of News Publishing
Will banking meet the sorry fate of newspapers? With the tech industry creeping up on licensed deposit-taking institutions in India, it’s time to take the question seriously.
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Parmy Olson
Biden’s Alliance with Big Tech Shows a Power Shift
It would normally be awkward asking a group of companies worth more than $4 trillion for help.
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Daniel Moss
South Korea Doesn't Seem Too Worried About Delta. Are You?
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Bank of Korea has become the first advanced Asian economy to raise interest rates after the pandemic. This isn’t a one-and-done.
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Chris Bryant
A WeWork SPAC Was Looking Promising. Then Delta Happened
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- After a planned initial public offering blew up spectacularly in 2019, WeWork Inc. was counting on the post-Covid era of flexible working to staunch big cash outflows and gain a fresh start
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Marcus Ashworth
Will Slow-and-Steady Europe Win the Economic Recovery Race?
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- So far this year, the pandemic recovery limelight has been hogged by the U.S., and to some degree even the U.K. But move over you two English-speaking economies! It might be time for the European tortoise to catch up with the hares.
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Mervyn King and Dan Katz
Central Banks Are Risking Their Independence
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Central bankers and journalists will assemble for the virtual Jackson Hole conference later this week. Their agenda will be broad.
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Andrea Felsted and Anjani Trivedi
What Happens When China’s Bling Binge Comes to an End?
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Since China emerged from the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, the country’s shoppers haven’t been able to get enough Hermes sneakers and Louis Vuitton handbags.
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Nir Kaissar
Contrarian Investors Should Love Emerging Markets
Emerging markets get no respect. They account for about two-fifths of global gross domestic product and a quarter of global stocks by market value, and yet they’re a fraction of most U.S. investors’ stock portfolios
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Chris Bryant
Container Shipping Earnings Now Rival Apple. It’s Not a Good Look
Maersk’s extraordinary financial results are being repeated across the industry. If freight rates keep rising, the container lines could collectively make $100 billion in operating income in 2021, according to Drewry Maritime Research.
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Matthew Goodwin
Boris Johnson's Leveling Up Agenda Is Missing Something
After delivering Brexit and managing the Covid-19 pandemic, the main focus of Boris Johnson’s government has been on what he refers to as “leveling up” the U.K. economy
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Daniel Moss
How a Single Covid Case Derailed a Central Bank
New Zealand made the right call to shelve a widely anticipated interest-rate increase. The central bank should resist the temptation to merely delay by a month or two.
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Marcus Ashworth
Europe Needs to Compete for Young Bankers
Investment banking revenue has soared in recent quarters. So much so that regulators at the European Central Bank will be hard pressed to justify the limits on compensation they’ve had in place since 2020, when the pandemic was at its height.
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Chris Bryant
Hedge Funds Are Demanding Their SPAC Money Back
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Last month, Atlas Crest Investment Corp., a blank-check firm created by investment banker Ken Moelis, spectacularly lopped $1 billion off the enterprise value off its $2.7 billion deal with flying taxi company Archer Aviation.
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Clara Ferreira Marques
Economic Reality Is Dragging Russia Toward Climate Acceptance
Could climate alarm bells be ringing in the Kremlin? Official pronouncements and a newfound urgency suggest the reality of greener global demand may finally force a fossil fuel behemoth to accept the inevitable.
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The Editors
The New Crypto Economy Could Use a Cop on the Beat
There’s an irony in the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. They were supposed to usher in a new paradigm of finance, obviating the need to trust centralized institutions. Yet people are increasingly interacting with them through such institutions
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Marcus Ashworth
The Fed Is Watching How the BOE Inches to a Taper
Some modest tightening of monetary policy over the forecast period is likely to be necessary” was how the Bank of England worded the forward guidance at its quarterly review on Thursday. It sounded like tough talk.
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Andreas Kluth
When Jet and Gulf Streams Run Amok, We’re In For It
The weather disasters spanning the globe this summer — infernal fires in California and Greece, deadly floods from Germany to China, heat waves from Canada to Siberia — are really just nature’s shots across our bow.
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Tim Culpan
Here’s a Surefire Way to Boost Your Olympic Medal Count
Hosting an Olympic Games is an economic disaster. After more than a century and over 50 installments, there are enough case studies to conclude that the home nation is invariably the biggest loser from the world’s largest sporting event
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Mark Gilbert
The Hedge Fund Comeback Looks Like the Real Deal
Hedge funds are rediscovering the secret of alpha generation that made them masters of the financial universe in years past.
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Leonid Bershidsky
Will Biden Avoid Obama’s Russia Trap?
When U.S. President Joe Biden revives the trope of Russia as a declining power with an economy that produces little except oil and gas, Americans should hope he doesn’t really believe it
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Andy Mukherjee
Nexus Could Be Banking’s Next Big Thing
n more than 60 countries, including many developing nations, it has become incredibly easy to send funds in real time to someone else over the internet — knowing nothing more than their mobile phone number.
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Justin Fox
GDP Growth Under Trump Was the Worst Since Hoover
It was the whopping-yet-still-disappointing 6.5% annualized growth number for the second quarter that got most of the attention when the U.S. gross domestic product report came out Thursday
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Robert Burgess
The Most Important Number of the Week Is 105.1
American exceptionalism is back! Or at least it is in the stock market. U.S. equities surged 16.7% in the first seven months of the year, trouncing the 5.90% gain in the rest of the world through late Friday as measured by the benchmark MSCI indexes
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Andrea Felsted
Get Ready to Pay More for Coffee, Beer, Bread and Snacks
Anxiety about inflation is high. Even as demand roars back, the world’s biggest manufacturers, from The Procter & Gamble Co. to Nestle SA, are seeing the cost of raw materials, whether chemicals or coffee, soar
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Lionel Laurent
The French Unicorn Dream Built on Trading Cards
Emmanuel Macron has long dreamed of unicorns. Before the pandemic struck, he called on investors and bankers to help fund 25 French billion-dollar startups by 2025
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Marcus Ashworth
Beijing's Crackdown Ruins July for Investors Everywhere
Forget your plans for a quiet, relaxing summer. The stock markets of the world's second largest economy are tumbling; and when Chinese equities turn bearish, it can be brutal.
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Liam Denning
Tesla Earnings Calls Still Need Elon Musk
Tesla finally notched a billion-dollar quarter where it counts: the bottom line.
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Lionel Laurent
Can the EU Make the U.K. a Good Neighbor?
Boris Johnson’s top Brexit official David Frost wasn’t picked to build bridges.
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Andrea Felsted
Can’t Find Milk and Other Staples? It’s Not Just the Pingdemic
Britain’s grocers are facing a perfect storm of Brexit, a record number of people self-isolating (most of them having been pinged by the National Health Service’s Covid app), and soaring temperatures
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Barry Ritholtz
Biden’s Bold Plan to Bring Competition Back
The National Economic Council was created by executive order in the early 1990s with the goal of having a White House entity that could coordinate economic policy on behalf of the president
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The Editors
The Case for Vaccine Mandates
In much of America, vaccine hesitancy has turned into vaccine defiance. Several states have banned or are considering banning demands by businesses that people show proof of vaccination.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
Delta’s Unknowns Complicate Medical and Economic Responses
The surge in the Covid-19 delta variant worldwide is raising concerns about the robustness of what has already been an uneven and uncertain global economic recovery. The extent of this worry speaks to medical and economic policy issues.
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Robert Burgess
The Most Important Number of the Week Is 1.30%
There’s no bigger question in financial markets than why U.S. government bonds — the benchmark for all markets worldwide and the ultimate “risk free” asset — have managed to rally in the face of faster inflation and a booming economy.
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Lionel Laurent
How to Make Sure Climate War Doesn’t Become Class Warfare
Trade in coal and steel powered the European Union’s formative years. Now the bloc wants to lead the world on climate responsibility, with a bumper package of proposals from expanding an emissions-trading system to banning fossil fuel car
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Bobby Ghosh
Global Hunger Is Back With a Vengeance
Even a short spasm of food inflation can be damaging for the world’s poorest, who are rarely more than a few meals away from hunger. So the current spike in food prices, examined in detail by several of my colleagues, should be setting off klaxons
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Tyler Cowen
The Crypto Revolution Will Not Be Public
Financial institutions will have to take a radically different approach to information technology just to stay in business
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Lionel Laurent
Europe’s Long March Toward Living With Covid-19
Living” with Covid-19 has been talked about since the pandemic first began: A moment when the coronavirus disease becomes part of everyday life, rather than an overpowering wave of cases and deaths that overloads hospitals
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Marcus Ashworth
Has the Fed Boxed Itself Out of a Smooth Taper?
Wise old market heads often remark that the bond market rarely lies and it often leads the stock market. This is particularly apposite at the moment, with too much cash kicking about and forcing bond, house and equity prices ever higher
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Tae Kim
Google App-Store Antitrust Suit Is Right Target, Wrong Idea
Opening an antitrust action against a company whose service offers better choice and flexibility than its main rival would be a bizarre move. But that is exactly what a group of 36 state attorneys general did when they sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google
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Tyler Cowen
Ransomware Attacks Will End, But Not Anytime Soon
he latest cyberattack, apparently emanating from Russia again, has hit at least 20 software firms affecting at least 1,000 businesses.
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Chris Hughes
A $9 Billion Buyout Bid Puts the U.K. Market to Shame
The latest private equity deal in the U.K. — the biggest in more than a decade — raises an awkward question for investors in the London stock market
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Lisa Abramowicz
Extra Jobless Benefits Aren’t Holding Back the Economy
With overall employment appearing to bounce back, the argument by some politicians that overly generous enhanced jobless benefits are impeding the economic recovery is losing steam. Moreover, the extra cash will turn out to be a good thing in the long run
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Gary Shilling
How Labor Shortages Help Profits and Hurt Inflation
The U.S. labor market is tight. In April, there were 9.3 million job openings but just 6.1 million new hires, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages are rising as a result. And yet, these conditions should help....
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Therese Raphael
Boris Johnson’s Covid Recovery Plan Is Spend, Spend, Spend
The prime minister’s inclination is to spend his way out of the pandemic-induced crisis, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is increasingly anxious to see fiscal guardrails imposed.
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Marcus Ashworth
Europe’s Covid Debt Party Just Keeps Raging On
t’s tricky following up a smashing success. But the European Union faced no such problems with its dual-tranche 15 billion-euro ($18 billion) five-year and 30-year bond sale Tuesday.
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Chris Bryant
Billionaire Richard Branson Is Hit With the Meme-Stock Crowd
The rules of finance have been turned on their head in the meme-stock era. Now when a company’s prospects deteriorate and short sellers bet a stock will fall further, retail investors often ignore the financial fundamentals and pile in anyway
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Robert Burgess
The Most Important Number of the Week Is 74
Describing the performance of the real estate market as “hot” would be an understatement. The National Association of Realtors said this week that the median price of an existing home reached a record $350,300 in May, up 23.6% from a year earlier.
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Noah Smith
Automation Is a Race the U.S. Can’t Afford to Lose
The U.S. has traditionally been a nation of optimists about technology. But just when the world seems poised for a technologically-driven productivity boom, Americans have acquired a dour outlook about the march of progress
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Andy Mukherjee
Paying With e-CNY? First Show a Digital ID
igital currencies are almost here, with China’s e-CNY possibly off the block as early as the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. But among the many things we still don’t know about these new payment instruments is their usage overseas:
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Scott Duke Kominers
Biden Is Rushing America’s Return to Normalcy
On July 4, President Biden is planning to mark with a large event at the White House to celebrate the resumption of American life. It will be a key moment for the administration, which has hit goal after goal on the pandemic since taking office
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Brooke Sutherland
Face Masks Were Booming Until They Weren't
Face masks were the most ubiquitous visual symbol of the Covid-19 pandemic, but they’re fading from sight as more and more people get vaccinated. Roughly 177 million Americans — or 68.7% of the adult population — have received at least one dose
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Tyler Cowen
What the Crypto Crowd Doesn’t Understand About Economics
Just last week I argued that cryptocurrency is here to stay. Now I’d like to explain to some of my crypto friends why parts of the mainstream economics and financial world do not take them more seriously.
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The Editors
The Fed Is Moving More Slowly Than the Recovery
The Federal Reserve has lately come under increasing pressure to shift its thinking on inflation and monetary policy. A course correction was indeed overdue. At this week’s meeting of its policy-making committee, the Fed budged — but not quite enough.
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Noah Smith
Big Government Is the Answer to America's Supply Problems
In the wake of the pandemic, Americans are rediscovering the importance of the economy’s supply side. But this won’t be a rerun of the 1980 — we’re learning that there’s a lot more to bolstering supply than tax cuts and deregulation
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Chris Hughes
Exxon Won't Be Last Shock Win for Activists
An activist’s success in shaking up Exxon Mobil Corp.’s board is more than a win for the environmental pillar of ESG investing. It’s a template for shareholder campaigns on social issues ranging from discrimination to the obesity epidemic.
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Marcus Ashworth
Europe's Debt Avalanche Is Just About to Start
The waiting’s over. The European Union has fired the gun on its multiyear bond issuance to fund the 750 billion-euro ($900 billion) pandemic recovery fund that the bloc agreed last summer.
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Robert Burgess
The Most Important Number of the Week Is $25.6 Trillion
No economist can say with a straight face that he or she predicted that the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression would just as quickly turn into boom times not seen since the 1980s
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Mark Gilbert
Can Crypto Buttress the Asset Management Industry?
The outlook for the global asset management industry, plagued in recent years by unmerciful downward pressure on fees, is starting to look brighter.
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Tae Kim
GameStop’s Latest Amazon Hires Prove It’s More Than a Meme Stock
GameStop Inc. has been best known lately for the excitement it has generated with the Reddit crowd, and as one of the first of the big meme-stock winners. But for those willing to take a deeper look, there is something more going on...
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Liam Denning
Did Tesla Sell Bitcoin? Its China Sales Are a Clue
I’m really starting to think Tesla Inc. may have sold some Bitcoin already this quarter. I know Elon Musk tweeted something indicating otherwise, but that isn’t always a rock-solid reference. Plus, Tesla’s May sales figures for China just came in.
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David Fickling
Think the Global Minimum Tax Will Bite? Watch the Stock Market
There’s a simple test for whether international moves to crack down on tax avoidance announced over the weekend are going to be effective: Check the stock market.
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Mervyn King
Make No Mistake, the Risk of Inflation Is Real
Price stability is when people stop talking about inflation and their decisions reflect genuine economic factors. It has been a long time since inflation was a talking point but, especially in the United States, it has reentered public debate.
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The Editors
Biden Should Aim For a Treaty, Not a Deal, With Iran
Among the many revelations in a recently leaked interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is a passing reflection on the nuclear deal his country signed with the world powers in 2015.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
AMC and GameStop Frenzy Goes Beyond Casino Mentality
It has only been a few months since Reddit-enabled retail investors, or what some unflatteringly refer to as “retail mob,” embraced GameStop and drove its valuation to the moon only to be frustrated by a sudden change against them in the rules of the game
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Tyler Cowen
Covid Showed That We’re Bad at Big Decisions
Human behavior during Covid has upended one of the most fundamental assumptions of economics, even if economists haven’t yet come around to admitting it. In sum: People are worse at big, important decisions than previously thought, and better at small ones
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Andy Mukherjee
India Won’t Get a V-Shaped Recovery This Time
The V-shaped economic recovery that India’s policy makers obsessed over in 2020 did eventually materialize. It won’t be repeated after this year’s Covid-19 carnage.
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Robert Burgess
The Most Important Number of the Week Is 3.1%
​​​Inflation? Meh. The Federal Reserve has it under control. That was the message sent by bond traders after the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that a key measure of consumer prices is running at its highest level since 1992
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Tae Kim
GameStop Bros Shouldn't Ignore Best Buy Blowout
This year’s meme-stock phenomenon GameStop Corp. is soaring again. But the Reddit crowd that loves trading the name may be getting too exuberant, especially considering Best Buy Co.’s latest strong earnings report
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Marcus Ashworth
The Fed Is Suffering From Tantrum Paranoia
he U.S. Federal Reserve risks waiting too long before trimming back its stimulus out of fear of a repeat of the 2013 taper tantrum, but this time really is different as it needs to prove its inflation-fighting chops
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Alberto Gallo
Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Fix Bad Policy
More than 85% of the world’s central banks are working on central bank digital currencies, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The People’s Bank of China has already implemented a digital yuan
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Andy Mukherjee
This Bitcoin Chaos Will Blow Up Your Cyberpunk Utopia
Bitcoin’s wild gyrations in 2021 have made sure of one thing: The future of money will be electronic, but it won’t remotely resemble a cyberpunk utopia. People’s power will bow to sovereigns’ might.
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David Fickling
The Push to Lift Corporate Taxes Will End Up Cutting Them
Governments wanting to stop big businesses from shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions have a carrot and a stick at their disposal.
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Marcus Ashworth
The ECB's Financial Stability Report Is Scary Reading
hristine Lagarde has a critical meeting of the European Central Bank’s governing council coming up on June 10. As usual this will encompass a quarterly review of inflation and growth forecasts...
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Andreas Kluth
This Is How Europe Can Push Back Against China and Russia
The most important geopolitical project you’ve never heard of is called the Three Seas Initiative. It’s a joint endeavor by 12 eastern members of the European Union to update the physical and digital links between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas
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Lionel Laurent
Elon Musk Keeps Trolling the Bitcoin Purists
The future of money apparently looks something like this: Tesla Inc. techno-king Elon Musk posts a one-word tweet — “Indeed” — that suggests his company may have sold its stash of Bitcoin
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Bolsonaro Seeks to Improve Brazil’s Battered Image at UN
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Biden Urges Global Action on Climate and Doubles U.S. Pledge
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Hungary Taps Brakes on EU’s Most Aggressive Rate-Hike Campaign
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Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, talks about gender equality, why she first ran for office and her relationship with President Trump. The interview took place March 8, 2019. 

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Dara Khosrowshahi

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks about taking the company public, the future of driverless cars, expansion plans and whether or not he takes an Uber. The interview was recorded on June 11, 2019.

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Arne Sorenson

CEO and President of Marriott International Inc., Arne Sorenson, talks about how he became the first non-Marriott family member to be CEO, and how he manages dual threats from Airbnb and Google. Taped on April 10, 2019.

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Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft Corp. and current Los Angeles Clippers owner, talks about meeting Bill Gates at Harvard, his early years at Microsoft and subsequent rise to CEO in 2000. Taped on April 26, 2018.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about working with Steve Jobs, the values at Apple, including privacy and equality, and if he'd run for president. The interview was taped on May 13, 2018.

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