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Lily Allen, Charli XCX, Role Model and Slayyyter are all out of commission and Harry Styles fans have some sort of ghastly “plague.” Is the unusually early bout of flu to blame? bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

Are Concerts Getting Hijacked By the Flu?

Performers and fans are falling ill right and left. The unusually early bout of H1N1 might be to blame.

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For an roadmap to the market opportunities after this year’s US midterms, writes John Authers, take a look at what happened in 2018 bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

Brace for a Midterm Market Mess — and Opportunity

The 2018 elections led to a brutal selloff, then a rebound through the next year

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A new play asks what economist John Maynard Keynes can tell us about the present moment. The answer is not what you think, writes @adwooldridge bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Keynes Was Right About More Than Economics

In the best scene in The Standard of Living, James Graham’s new play about John Maynard Keynes, Keynes and fellow economist Friedrich Hayek are on fire duty on the roof of King’s College chapel,...

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The French protests and riots produced several viral images — but why is the American-born Pink Panther one of them? @hchuaeoan explains bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

AI Put the Pink Panther in France’s Protests. It’s a Marvelous Idea

As horrific as the images of looting and arson in Paris over the weekend were, I was most unnerved by the video footage from Reuters of a man and woman calmly having evening drinks at an outdoor...

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The fragmentation of the crude market means oil can be both expensive and cheap at the same time, writes @JavierBlas #OOTT bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Oil Market Fragmentation Is Making Crude Both Cheap and Expensive

With oil, as with real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. The petroleum market has never been truly global, but rather a loosely connected collection of regional sources. When...

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Bank Indonesia skipped a chance to support its fragile markets, says @Moss_Eco. That stores up up bigger problems bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Indonesia’s Rate Miss Makes a Bad Week Worse

Indonesia’s new economic team flubbed its first real test. Faced with renewed weakness in markets, the central bank didn’t deliver on an interest rate increase on Wednesday, which would’ve helped...

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A live chart reading from @johnauthers looking at America’s skyrocketing growth 📈
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@AllisonSchrager on why AI regulation has become such a hot political point
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@RonBrownstein sets the stage for where we stand two weeks before the midterm elections bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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@TimOBrien speaks to the political polarization of our current age
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Elon Musk is misreading the room on India and Starlink, writes @davidfickling, and the Ukraine debacle is only part of it bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Musk Is Getting It Wrong on India’s Space Oligarchs

Elon Musk may have many strengths. Self-awareness is not one of them.

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In a singularity, all correlations go to one. bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

Obviously SpaceX and Tesla Will Merge

Also withdrawal calculators and personal liquidity.

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Jensen Huang says the AI selloff will pass and investors should buy the dip. Now it’s time for Nvidia to take its own advice and show why it’s called AI’s central bank, writes @shuli_ren bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Nvidia Is AI’s Central Bank. Now Jensen Huang Must Step Up

An AI startup backed by Nvidia Corp. is like a fresh graduate with a Harvard degree. The pedigree brings prestige and a premium. But global investors are starting to question how much that fancy...

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The surge in revenue for SpaceX's AI business comes from renting out excess computing capacity, not from adoption of its main AI product, Grok, @tomwblack says bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

SpaceX’s AI Surprise Is More Fragile Than It Looks

Elon Musk has had a long, torrid relationship with artificial intelligence, dating back at least a decade to his ill-fated co-founding of OpenAI with Sam Altman. That’s rightfully made some SpaceX...

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The GOP's baseless smears against Abdul El-Sayed recall the party's baseless (and unsuccessful) attacks on Barack Obama, @niamalikah writes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

El-Sayed Is Facing Nasty Smears. His Response Will Be Crucial

If Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wins in Michigan next month, he will become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber. But as has happened with other firsts, El-Sayed will have to...

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East Potomac Golf Links could use some repairs to better serve the public, but Trump’s plans risk undermining the accessibility that has long defined it, writes @AdamMinter bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Trump’s Plan for a Public DC Golf Course Smacks of Elitism

President Donald Trump declared East Potomac Golf Links, one of Washington, DC’s most popular public golf courses, “old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect.” That last claim will...

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Zuckerberg is facing one of Meta's biggest earning calls in years on Wednesday, when analysts will want to know if Muse is proof of an AI business model, @DaveLeeBBG says bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Meta Investors Are Looking to Zuckerberg for the Muse Payoff

Meta Platforms Inc. leads the tech pack this week, reporting its third-quarter earnings a week ahead of most of its peers. Take that as a sign of confidence, perhaps. The positive reception to the...

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Flu season has landed early — and if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, now’s the time. @LisaMJarvis explains why bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Flu Season Has Landed Early, and Your Vaccination Is Overdue

This fall, like every other, I tried to game the flu season. My goal, always, is to get my vaccine at just the right moment: before the first cases pop up, yet late enough so that its protective...

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Keeping interest rates on hold is getting harder to justify bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Sticky Inflation Is Testing the Fed’s Resolve

Last week’s surprisingly bad inflation figures pose a dilemma for the Federal Reserve. In recent speeches and interviews, Fed officials suggested they were in no hurry to raise interest rates again...

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