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Trumponomics
Tariffs, crypto, deregulation, tax cuts, protectionism, are just some of the things back on the table when Donald Trump returns to the Presidency. To help you plan for Trump's singular approach to economics, Bloomberg presents Trumponomics, a weekly podcast focused on the Trump administration's economic policies and plans. Editorial head of government and economics Stephanie Flanders will be joined each week by reporters in Washington D.C. and Wall Street to examine how Trump's policies are…
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A Sneak Preview of Janet Yellen’s Treasury
The U.S. doesn’t just have a new president this week. The world’s largest economy is also getting a new Treasury Secretary, albeit a familiar face, in Janet…
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The Economic Cost of Covid's Mental Health Crisis
Covid-19 isn't just a deadly threat to human life; it's also a mental health catastrophe with economic consequences. Fear of illness, strict lockdowns…
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How Covid Laid Bare America’s Economic and Political Divides
An economy is its people. Alongside the almost 360,000 killed by the coronavirus in the U.S., there are millions more whose lives have been upended by the…
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The Stephanomics Global Preview for 2021
The events of 2020 caught most people off guard. The global economy was upended, prompting unprecedented responses by governments and central banks while…
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Is the Pandemic the Answer to the Productivity Puzzle?
As a tumultuous year for the global economy comes to a close, host Stephanie Flanders speaks with someone on the front line of the policy response. Bank of…
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How Covid-19 Is Helping Robots Take Your Job
Adding robots to factories, retail stores or mines was historically seen as a job killer by workers and the unions that support them. But this year, automation…
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The Taxing Problem of Global Tech Giants
Internet companies have long been the target of complaints that they don’t pay their fair share of taxes. The system wasn’t built for a digital global economy…
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What Does Bidenomics Look Like?
In Washington, personnel is policy. The people President-elect Joe Biden has picked to run economic policy can tell us a lot about what we might expect from…
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A New Intergenerational Contract for the Pandemic Age
The hard reality of the Covid-19 pandemic is that while those at greatest risk of dying are retirement age or older, the economic disaster and its consequences…
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Crisis Rock Stars Rate the World’s Response to Covid-19
This week’s episode of Stephanomics comes to you from the third annual Bloomberg New Economy Forum, where global leaders have gathered for a virtual discussion…
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Lost Opportunities for Asia’s Lockdown Generation
For decades, Asia’s fast-growing economies have offered millions of young people the chance to do better than their parents. Thanks to Covid-19, that tradition…
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President Donald Trump's Economic Scorecard
Who the U.S. president will be for the next four years is dominating the headlines right now, but what of the previous four? In the wake of the Nov. 3…
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How to Build Back Greener After the Pandemic
Alongside the financial destruction wrought by Covid-19 there comes new opportunities. European officials have seized on one in particular—mending battered…
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Covid Forced the World to Change in Ways We May Keep
Amid its terrible death toll and economic devastation, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted people, businesses and governments to rethink the way they live…
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Which Jobs Are Really Worth Saving?
The pandemic has raised the specter of mass unemployment across many developed economies. In Europe, governments stepped in to help pay millions of workers…
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The Inequality of America’s K-Shaped Recovery
Covid-19 has upended economies across the globe. In the fourth season of Stephanomics, we’ll be taking a closer look at the fragile path to recovery and which…
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Bonus: The Emperor’s New Road
Andy Browne, editorial director for the Bloomberg New Economy, talks to Jonathan Hillman, author of the book The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of…
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Bonus: Beer is Flowing Again
One of the first global consumer companies to feel the impact of Covid-19 was the beer giant AB InBev, whose brands include Budweiser, Corona and Stella…
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Bonus: Superpower Showdown
Before the pandemic, relations between the U.S. and China were already at rock bottom. Since then, they've gotten even worse, with both sides trading blame for…
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Bonus: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
In this bonus episode, Andy Browne, the editorial Director of the Bloomberg New Economy, talks to Brian Chesky, chief executive of Airbnb. A few months ago…
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What Top Economists Take From the Covid-19 Crisis
The novel coronavirus has reshaped the global economy, shifting the attitudes of governments, central bankers and consumers alike. It has changed how we…
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Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg
The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed…
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Can 'Creative Destruction' Work During a Pandemic?
Great things can rise from the ashes of failed companies, so governments shouldn’t rescue firms that would otherwise go bust. That’s the thinking behind…
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What Wuhan Can Teach Us About Recovery
Wuhan will forever be known as the place where Covid-19 and lockdowns began. But the Chinese city also might be the best place to learn how to restart the…
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Why Europe Finds It Hard to Break Chinese Supply Chains
Covid-19’s fracturing of supply chains has left businesses and governments questioning the prudence of networks that crisscross the planet. Pandemic recovery…
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Introducing Foundering
Adam Neumann had a vision: to make his startup WeWork a wildly successful company that would change the world. He convinced thousands of other people --…
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Stiglitz, Roubini and the Post-Pandemic Future of Capitalism
It’s no exaggeration to say the coronavirus has upended the global economy in ways few could have imagined. It's been called a wake-up call for capitalism and…
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Covid-19’s Fresh Injustice for Black-Owned American Businesses
As protests against racial discrimination and police killings continue across the U.S., another injustice is ripping through American cities: Black-owned…
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Black Joblessness Shows Fed Must Look at Inequality
Protests all across America following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, have put yet another spotlight on the deep…
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Madrid’s Restaurants Face a Hard Road in the Post-Covid World
Europe is emerging after weeks of lockdowns that kept shops and businesses shuttered, and residents safe at home. On this week’s episode, Bloomberg economy…
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A 70,000 Year View on the Covid-19 Crisis
Covid-19 is the biggest threat to our physical and economic health in recent times, but on this week’s episode, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs…
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For the Coronavirus Economy, This Time Truly Is Different
There’s little debate that Covid-19 has crushed economies and triggered government rescue efforts not seen in modern times. On this week’s episode, World Bank…
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Rich Nations Face a Post-Covid World Without Cheap Migrant Labor
Romanian home-care workers in Italy. Indian construction crews in Dubai. Filipino maids and cooks in Singapore. The world’s wealthy economies depend on a…
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How the Pandemic Jobs Bust Will Hurt Some More Than Others
Just a few months ago, the economic debate about employment centered on how low the jobless rate could go. Now, with tens of millions out of work across the…
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Waffle House Signals U.S. Reopening, But It Won’t Be Simple
The Waffle House chain of U.S. restaurants, with most of its locations in the nation’s south, is famous for staying open during hurricanes and other severe…
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China’s Uneven Reopening Shows Fear Might Hold Back Economies
How do you restart the global economy following a coronavirus-induced lockdown? China is the test case, and getting workers back to work is proving a lot…
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The IMF’s Chief Economist on Lessons From the "Great Lockdown"
Mid-April is when the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their spring meetings, where finance ministers and central bankers gather to exchange…
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Governments Try to Spend Their Way Out of Coronavirus Shock
For years, a small band of economists pushed an unorthodox approach to government spending (particularly in the U.S.), arguing that concern about deficits and…
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How the Coronavirus Has Broken the Global Economy
In a matter of weeks the Covid-19 virus has turned the world upside down. In the start of a new season of Stephanomics, James Mayger and Zhu Lin report from…
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Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus
Harnessing Bloomberg's reporting from every continent, Bloomberg's daily Prognosis podcast brings the news, data and analysis you need for living in the time…
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Thomas Piketty's New Book Is About a Lot More Than Capitalism
French economist Thomas Piketty made a big splash in 2014 with his best-selling book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," stirring debate about how…
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Global Virus, Global Trade—Global Impact
This week, Stephanomics concludes its second season with a preview of Bloomberg Markets’ special trade issue, along with a look at what could stop the spread…
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Three Perspectives On the Biggest Issues at Davos
Economy. Labor. Climate change. These are the issues that are front-of-mind for attendees of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. On a…
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How One U.S. State Is Trying to Close the Huge Education Gap
If there’s one thing many Americans agree on, it’s the importance of education as a bedrock of the U.S. economy. Yet the federal government has left children’s…
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Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs
Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season of Prognosis, reporter John Tozzi explores what went…
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Too Much Education Can Be Bad for Your Economic Health
With tensions rising in the Middle East, investors have been increasingly focused on the risk of war between the U.S. and Iran. On this week’s episode, host…
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The Global Economic Preview for 2020
Will trade wars go the way of 2019 or keep on raging? Is Europe’s economy finally on a rebound? What does U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s election victory…
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How the Trade War Is Putting Christmas In a Brand New Light
What happens when you cross the U.S.-China trade war with the Christmas tradition of covering your home in lights, while tossing in a Nobel-winning economist…
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How Chile's Unrest is Affecting the Economy
In recent decades, Chile has been marked by the relative stability of its economy and politics in a region where the opposite is more typical. But the…
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Tory Landslide, Now What? (Bloomberg Westminster Bonus Episode)
On this special bonus episode, Stephanie Flanders joins the Bloomberg Westminster podcast to discuss the dramatic British election night. The Conservative…
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Remembering Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who died this week at age 92, was an imposing public figure—in height as well as stature. He was best known…
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More Than Just Brexit
Will the Conservatives loosen the purse strings and spur a growth revival? Can Labour realize its vision of radically reshaping the U.K. economy? How will the…
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Superyachts: The Key to the Global Economy
What does the business of flashy superyachts for the megarich have to do with the health of the U.S. economy? A lot, it turns out. They’re often seen as a…
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Driving the New Economy
This week’s episode of Stephanomics comes to you from Beijing, where Bloomberg hosted the second annual New Economy Forum, bringing together global leaders to…
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Is It Curtains for the U.S.-China Economic Relationship?
Beneath the tariffs, counter-tariffs and on-again off-again negotiations between the U.S. and China over trade policy, a deeper confrontation is brewing—one…
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What the Sanders or Warren Wealth Tax Means for Inequality in the U.S.
The 2020 U.S. presidential election may be a year away but one policy idea is already stirring fierce debate: a big-time tax on the richest Americans. Katia…
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How the Trade War Is Reshaping Supply Chains From Los Angeles to Vietnam
Economies represent the ultimate sum of millions of people and businesses making millions of decisions. And if enough of those businesses are frozen on how to…
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Washington Talks, the World Listens
What is the future for international institutions like the International Monetary Fund - and what, if anything, can it do to help Argentina? These are just…
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Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2
Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky, hosts Nikki Ekstein and Mark Ellwood have a whole new…
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A Newly Minted Nobel Laureate on Making Economics More of a Science
The macroeconomic kind of economist tends to get the most attention - talking about growth, inflation and whether interest rates should go up or down. But it’s…