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Why are women working less and earning less, even though the industries they traditionally work in are growing? @kedseconomist.com explains 🎥

...less than a week after canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food. #LetThemEatCake

"Members of Telegram channels tied to white supremacists seized on the order signed on Monday by Trump with texts and videos urging thousands of followers to target perceived members of Antifa..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"One of Starbucks’ biggest problems, in contrast, was that it had become a little rough around the edges in recent years, with messy outlets that often had all the ambience of an earth-toned DMV." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

What's the end result of ignoring climate change completely and remaining nearly 100% addicted to fossil fuels? Kuwait, which has more per-capita oil than any other country on Earth but can't keep the lights on, @davidfickling.bsky.social writes Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The White House literally invoked its "Golden Share" in US Steel last week to block the company from stopping production at a money losing plant in Illinois

For all the talk of a boys and men crisis, women have seen two tangible, and troubling, trends: 1. The gender wage gap increased over the last two years 2. The number of women working is falling, while the number of working men is going up. I discuss in my latest: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Lithium is a weird market already. Enter Trump? @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ethics experts say Tom Homan’s participation could violate rules meant to ensure impartiality. The White House says he has not crossed that line. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

WOW! The US oil and gas industry isn't happy with Trump: “The US shale business is broken,” one of those respondents was quoted as saying. “What was once the world’s most dynamic energy engine has been gutted by political hostility and economic ignorance.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big surprise: New York is the only US city where most households don't have cars. But there are some big zero-car minorities across the river in New Jersey and in Washington, Boston and San Francisco. From new column with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Something doesn't smell right about this US government report today saying new home sales soared 20.5% in August. Why? Because a separate report from homebuilders themselves say business is way down. Here's the new home sales report vs the NAHB Housing Market Index:

Jimmy Kimmel’s return shows corporate America that submitting to the Trump administration may come with a higher price than pushing back

THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found. Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...

And yet the White House is providing $20 billion in bailout money to Argentina because...???

Trump’s hour-long speech at the UN missed a crucial point: The global body can only accomplish what its members support, @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains 🎥 Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s

Brendan Carr shouldn’t have uttered a word about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Disney shouldn't have caved to the pressure. But the government has been bullying broadcasters since Kennedy

Texas and Florida are looking a lot like Hungary, Turkey and China in managing their universities

Why is the US government bailing out Argentina instead of focusing on lowering food and energy prices? *BESSENT SAYS DISCUSSING $20B SWAP LINE WITH ARGENTINA

"For the third consecutive quarter, tariffs and trade policy were the top concern among survey respondents, followed by monetary policy and inflation. The firms that cited tariffs as a top concern were notably more downbeat about the economy and their own firm." www.richmondfed.org/cfosurvey

Instead of the promised "answer to autism," Trump offered families distorted science, false hope, and dangerous medical advice. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

"And yet Kuwait is struggling to keep the lights on. In what was for decades one of the richest countries on the planet, rolling power outages have become a fact of life over the past two summers." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

And you wonder why so many people are worried about a market "bubble": www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The head of the Bank of Canada: "While the greenback will likely remain the global reserve currency for the foreseeable future, 'for many, its value as a hedge in times of stress has been dented.'" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A few months after Trump belittled Zelenskiy in the Oval Office by saying Ukraine held no "cards" in its defense against Russian aggression, Trump now says: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.” 🤷‍♂️

"Miran Is Contradicting Himself on the Case for Big Rate Cuts" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I was told foreign aid is bad

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will use robot umpires to call balls and strikes as part of a challenge system next season.

Trump went in front of the UN and boasted about how the US stock market is at record highs. Yes, BUT, the US stock market has woefully underperformed the rest of the world this year:

Every US president saw America’s interests as overlapping with those of the world and the UN. Until Trump, says Andreas Kluth www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Even as the administration has at times succeeded in at least pausing judges’ rulings on appeal — routinely turning to the US Supreme Court to intervene — several recent court losses...linger over negotiations on everything from trade to higher education." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sending thoughts and prayers to fact checkers everywhere.

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u...

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OMG, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU @lisamjarvis.bsky.social THIS is how you write an appropriate headline, and THIS is how you report on what I believe to be the whackiest, most dangerous, most-anti-science press conference I've ever seen So many journalists could learn *a lot* from this piece

The US pledge to help stabilize Argentina's economy is historic & gives President Javier Milei a lifeline — but only if he uses it wisely my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

RONALD BROWNSTEIN: "Disney’s initial surrender over Kimmel marked another ominous advance in Trump’s campaign to suppress dissent. Kimmel’s restoration shows that those willing to resist that campaign can tap into a deep well of public concern." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"The information provided at a rambling and often incoherent press briefing...could cause real harm. And it does nothing but create confusion and distract from genuine efforts to improve the lives of autistic people and their families." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New Fed Governor (and current White House employee) Stephen Miran appears to have a very short memory. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Kimmel should have a field day with this

*DISNEY TO RETURN KIMMEL SHOW TO THE AIR ON TUESDAY

It is harder than it used to be to sell $1 worth of Bitcoin for $2 on the stock market, but it’s easier if the buyer is also a crypto treasury company.

"The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The man who gifted Musk his infamous chainsaw is now begging the US for a bailout…

Free-market reformer needs a bailout.

Wut? Are we in a recession already??? *MIRAN: APPROPRIATE FED FUNDS RATE IS ROUGHLY 2% TO 2.5%

Ten candidates? I'm starting to think they never had a real plan to replace Powell. *BESSENT: 10 FED CHAIR CANDIDATES INTERVIEWED BY NEXT WEEK: CNBC