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Yes, says @keds_economist, the Social Security trust fund needs to be replenished, and there's a (relatively) easy way to do it: a 1099 tax bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Save Social Security With the Gig Economy

The Social Security trust fund will run out of money by late 2032, according to the annual report the program issued last month. The specific date is new — last year’s report projected insolvency by...

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The AI hype in robotics is outpacing the progress in actual orders, @tomwblack says bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

AI Promises to Transform Robotics, Just Not Yet

The US industrial robot industry is characterized by low growth and highly customized projects. Artificial intelligence holds out the hope to change that, especially when it comes to robots that can...

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Age limits on social media aren’t meaningfully reducing teen use, writes @McCloskeyAbby. But parents should still welcome such laws bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Social Media Age Bans Aren’t Perfect. So What?

A new study finds that Australia’s ban on social media accounts for kids under 16 has not curbed use among teens. The findings come as other nations are exploring age-based bans of their own. Has the...

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A truce in the Ukraine war will happen only when Putin becomes convinced it's his least bad option. That's becoming increasingly plausible bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Ukraine’s Resilience Is Making a Truce Russia’s Best Bet

The war in Ukraine is no longer a grinding stalemate with time on Russia’s side. Thanks to brave fighting and constant innovation, Ukraine has made occupation costlier — on the front lines, in...

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Trump and his allies are continuing with their misguided scheme to undermine Fed independence, @jonathanjlevin says. How Warsh responds is crucial bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Trump’s Meddling Threatens Warsh’s Fed Leadership

President Donald Trump and his allies aren’t giving up on their dangerous and misguided scheme to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, the world’s most important central bank. How will...

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VW shareholders — including the billionaire Porsche and Piech families — are in rough shape. Big changes are needed, writes @chrismbryant bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The Porsche Billionaires Can Stop VW From Crashing

Volkswagen AG has seen plenty of corporate drama over the years but Thursday’s meeting of its supervisory board may top past episodes: Tens of thousands of jobs, four German factories and the group’s...

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Andy Burnham says young people shouldn't have to leave their home towns to get on in life. But one look at Asia, and Europe’s own past, shows that’s exactly what they do when an economy is growing, writes @mihirssharma bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Andy Burnham Has Made an Impossible Promise

One of the extraordinary things about the UK — a matter of no particular note to those born there, but startling to those who are not — is the postcode. The combination of letters and numbers that...

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The last time Spain's prospects were this sunny, it was due to an unsustainable property bubble that burst with dramatic consequences, writes @LionelRALaurent bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

No AI, No Problem? How Spain Outgrew South Korea

The economic turnaround in Europe’s south since the dark days of last decade’s sovereign debt crisis is well-known. Yet Spain’s growth boom is still hitting new milestones. Annual gross domestic...

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Andy Burnham can make reforms stick if he achieves cross-party consensus, writes Martin Ivens bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Cross-Party Collaboration Can Help Burnham Succeed

Everybody says the UK is a laughing stock. The economy is in the doldrums, the Royal Family has been besmirched by controversy and infighting and the country is about to have its seventh prime...

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It’s well past time to stop using taxpayer money to feather-bed a dying fossil economy, writes @davidfickling. We must let the free market speak bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers

To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that...

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A disc-free PlayStation might be inevitable. But, @GearoidReidy writes, it comes at a moment when gamers are paying more and trust the industry less than ever bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Sony Hits Eject on the Era of Owning Games

Anyone of a certain generation will remember trading video game cartridges in the schoolyard, an essential part of a hobby where new titles cost more than a month’s allowance.

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Michael Burry has made various apocalyptic predictions that have failed to pan out. But @shuli_ren writes that he might just be right about memory chipmakers bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Michael Burry Is Right About Memory Chipmakers

Michael Burry of The Big Short fame doesn’t buy the narrative that memory chipmakers have entered a supercycle. He has a point.

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The Supreme Court was right to rule that states can count mail-in ballots even if they arrive after Election Day — but @StepCarter worries that the decision could have unexpected consequences bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Mail-In Voting Won, But Something Else Was Lost

Last-minute absentee voters are no doubt resting easier after the Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee, which held that under federal law, states can decide for...

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As companies sprinkle AI pixie dust on everything, some clear losers are emerging in the race for tech supremacy bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

Next Up on AI’s Hit List: Detroit, College and Your Bonus

Billions of dollars are being spent on integrating the technology, but what might we lose along the way?

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If Trump makes good on his deportation threat, the people of Springfield, Ohio, won’t just lose thousands of neighbors — they’ll also lose an economic engine. @Erika_D_Smith explains bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Trump’s Deportation Campaign Will Make Rural America Shrink Again

If not for the thousands of Haitians who live there, Springfield, Ohio, may have suffered the same fate as countless small cities and towns: It would’ve fallen into decline. Instead, new businesses...

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Should we fail to keep AI and nuclear weapons separate, the odds against Western civilization lasting become a lot shorter, writes Max Hastings bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

America’s Battlefield Dominance Is Under Serious Threat

The US Army buys 50,000 drones a year, set to increase in 2027 to 340,000. Sounds like a lot? Yeah, but Ukraine is producing and launching 4 million a year. Meanwhile, an Iranian missile landing on a...

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OK, so this month's US semiquincentennial celebration is kind of lame. But if we're going to do it right, @foxjust argues, we have seven more years of 250th commemorations to go bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

America’s 250th Celebration Is Just Getting Started

Americans who can remember the nation’s bicentennial celebrations in 1976 are mostly unimpressed with the semiquincentennial.

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Tungsten has plenty of everyday uses. In a time of increasingly uncertain geopolitical shifts, its lethal properties become the focus bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

A Minor Metal Is About to Have Its Next Major Moment

Australia’s Dolphin Mine is one of the world’s largest tungsten deposits. That’s catching the attention of global military powers once again.

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American women won equal voting rights before British women did, yet the UK has had three female heads of government and the US has had none bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

The British Have One Up on America

American women got equal voting rights first, but British women have led three governments.

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A weaker endorsement of Fed independence could not have been extracted from the Supreme Court, writes @johnauthers. And that sets up a next time bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Being Seen to Support Fed Independence, Barely

The Supreme Court’s ruling was weak and invites a next time.

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