Trumponomics

Major Foreign Policy Tests Await a Starmer Victory

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Voternomics, former UK diplomat Tom Fletcher discusses how the Labour Party leader’s first 30 days could define his premiership. ...

Voternomics: How the Left Lost Its Way in Europe

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We, the left, have messed up,” said Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who came to fame negotiating on behalf of the Greek gove...

Voternomics LIVE: Europe's Rightward Shift, Macron's Snap Election, and Tory Party Train Wreck

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a busy few days in the world of economics and politics. The big developments include UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s damaging decision ...

Farage 'Trumpifies' Tories, India Surprise and Europe Just Got a China ‘Wake Up Call’

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Europe cannot rely on America for its long-term security, says Robin Niblett, distinguished fellow and former director of Chatham House. On this epis...

US Battles for ‘Hearts and Minds’ in a Conflicted World with Daleep Singh

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this special Monday episode, White House national security adviser for economics Daleep Singh explains how America is seeking to maintain global in...

South Africa is in Uncharted Waters. What's Next?

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the past three decades, South African politics have been defined by the African National Congress. But with initial forecasts from the May 29 vote...

How to Beat Back AI’s Threat to Democracy with Audrey Tang

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bad actors using machine-learning, generative artificial intelligence and the power of digital networks are seeding ever-more distrust in democracy, w...

Voternomics: "Bleeding to Death" Tory Party Calls July Election. Why Now?

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this special edition of Voternomics, we discuss the possible reasoning behind the Conservative’s decision to gamble on an earlier-than-expected v...

Voternomics: Why Europe Needs to Unite Around Its Defense with Wolfgang Ischinger

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Former Munich Security Conference Chair Wolfgang Ischinger joinsVoternomics to explain the new European project he says is needed. Plus, Bloomberg rep...

Voternomics: What’s Worse Than Inflation? ‘Useless Politicians’

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Page, chief executive of market research company Ipsos, joins Voternomics this week to outline what he’s discovered about voters and what they t...

Voternomics: Why Politicians Are Paying the Price for Central Bank Sins with Karen Ward

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Ward, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s chief market strategist for EMEA, joins this week to explain why politicians are being punished for the s...

Voternomics: Why the US Election Isn’t About Foreign Policy with Niall Ferguson

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first episode of Voternomics. On this podcast, Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg’s head of government and economics coverage, Allegra St...

Stephanie Introduces Her New Series "Voternomics"

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie is back with a new podcast series.This is the year of elections. Around 40 percent of the world has the chance to vote in 2024. And those vo...

Listen Now: The Big Take

26 Mar 2024

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The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters aroun...

Introducing: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

29 Feb 2024

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The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepren...

Introducing: Bloomberg Daybreak Europe Edition

16 Jan 2024

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As you await the latest episode of Stephanomics, check out another podcast from our team here at Bloomberg: Daybreak Europe Edition. Every episode del...

Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report on today's top stories. Listen for the latest news, whenever you want it, covering global business ...

Introducing: Elon, Inc.

13 Nov 2023

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At Bloomberg, we’re always talking about the biggest business stories, and no one is bigger than Elon Musk. In this new chat weekly show, host David...

To Rebuild, Ukraine Needs Millions of Women to Return Home

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Seventeen months after Russia invaded Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians remain scattered around the world, with no end to the war in sight. Many of thos...

‘Cursed’ Nations Want to Turn Green Minerals Boom Into a Blessing

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The green minerals boom has triggered a new scramble for natural resources across the developing world. From Southeast Asia to Africa, countries rich ...

What the World Doesn’t Understand About China’s Ambitions

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

People in China are blocked from seeing much of what’s happening in the outside world. For outsiders, it can be just as difficult to see in. This we...

Some Cities Have Emerged Stronger From the Pandemic. Others Haven’t

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Covid-19 was supposed to mean the end of the city as we know it. Buzzing urban centers would give way to boarded-up ghost towns as white-collar employ...

Why a US Recession Might Happen in Time for 2024 Election

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US economy has proven resilient after more than a year’s worth of interest-rate hikes, with a steady drumbeat of recession predictions having be...

Climate Change Drives Global Inflation Even Higher

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is fast transforming the planet. Global warming is fueling drought, massive wildfires, rising sea levels and stronger hurricanes. Now s...

How 'Friend-Shoring' Has Made America More Like China

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Globalization was once the watchword of Washington. Bill Clinton made it a centerpiece of his economic policy, from the North American Free Trade Agre...

Why the World Can’t Quit Its Addiction to Chinese Goods

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Biden, like so many other presidents before him, put America’s re-industrialization at the center of his campaign for the White House. And like ...

The Key to Making AI a Benefit, Not a Hazard

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The idea that artificial intelligence would someday replace humans in certain jobs is nothing new. Now, as some companies make plans for this new real...

Unraveling America's Dance With a Debt-Ceiling Disaster

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US debt ceiling is all anyone in Washington (and increasingly elsewhere) can talk about these days. For months, politicians have been in a stalema...

How Japan Is Reckoning With Its Increasingly Tense Neighborhood

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some of the world's largest economies are struggling with a response to the rising influence of China and Russia. Specifically, how the ambitions of t...

The High Cost of Eating Is Crushing Europe

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Inflation rates may be slowing broadly across Europe, but you wouldn’t know it after a trip to the grocery store or dining out. And there’s only s...

Why the Next Victim of the Banking Crisis Is Small Business

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The banking crisis that began in March continues to rapidly evolve. What started with the collapse of Silvergate Capital and Silicon Valley Bank went ...

America’s Coming Demographic Crisis Is Bad News for Employers

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all might one day be replaced by robots or ChatGPT. But for now, businesses still need humans to make computer chips or staff daycare centers. Prob...

'Wake Up!' Global Elites Confront a World Full of Risks at Davos

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“My fear is that we are sleepwalking into this world. But hey, here is Davos! Wake up! Do the right thing!” That's the rallying cry of Kristalina ...

The Global War on Inflation Is Far From Over

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Frustrated by prices at the grocery store? People in countries with advanced economies who have been grousing about single-digit inflation have nothin...

The Consequences of the US-China Blame Game Have Arrived

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If it feels like the US relationship with China is a tinderbox waiting to explode, chalk some of it up to political expedience. Leaders on either side...

Introducing: Crash Course

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hosted by Bloomberg Opinion senior executive editor Tim O'Brien, Crash Course will bring listeners directly into the arenas where epic business and so...

The Stephanomics Guide to the Global Economy in 2023

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A push for peace in Ukraine, a recovering China and good news for US consumers may be in the cards.Will China keep moving beyond its "Covid-zero" poli...

The Era of Geoeconomics Has Arrived

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thirty years after the Cold War ended, a new one of sorts is emerging between China and the West, a leading economic scholar asserts. As a muscular Ch...

The World Wants the Fed to Stop Raising Rates

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's evidence the Federal Reserve may have finally gained the upper hand in its war against inflation, a potential relief not only for US investors...

Japan Is Caught Between the US, China and the War on Inflation

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the rest of the world raises interest rates to battle inflation, Japan curiously is clinging to low rates to raise wages and finally move past its ...

Europe Just Might Dodge a Winter of Discontent

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Europe might just avoid what had been a widely predicted, Kremlin-induced energy crisis this winter, thanks to a surprisingly large stock of natural g...

How ‘Swiftonomics’ May Finally Break Ticketmaster’s Spell

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the days when bands like Led Zeppelin or The Who toured America, teens lined up overnight at ticket booths, hoping for great seats when the wi...

Long Is the Way Out of the Global Inflation Fight, and Hard

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Buckle up. Global financial leaders warn that the current era of expensive money is likely to stick around for at least another year, and maybe longer...

Confusion Reigns for Foreign Companies Operating in China

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Investors were floored when China started cracking down on homegrown tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. in late 202...

Global Pillars of Prosperity are Getting Increasingly Shaky

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past few decades, the world's economic and political leaders were spoiled by relatively low inflation and minimal borrowing costs, a supercha...

The World Is Having Too Few Babies, and Too Many

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having children isn't only expensive, but it also puts a serious dent in your social calendar. Data show many single, childless women in the US are tr...

Why Brazil's Lula May Tack Toward the Center

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Voters in Brazil just took a leftward turn in electing former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ousting the far-right populist incumbent. Next week...

Biden's Pro-Union Presidency Isn't Good Enough for Union Members

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of next month's crucial US midterm elections, Democrats would usually be counting on the support of labor unions, historically a key constituenc...

In China, Five More Years of Xi Means Security Above All Else

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As Xi Jinping embarks on his third term as China's president, the world's most populous nation has lost some of the zeal for growth, experimentation a...

Bad Policies are Greasing the Wheels for a Global Recession

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If the combination of inflation, Russia’s war on Ukraine and a surging dollar don’t send the world into recession, disastrous policy mistakes sure...

Liz Truss' Tax Fiasco Shows How UK Guardrails Have Fallen Away

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The UK's politics and policies have always been a bit quirky. But international investors have long trusted that the country would, in the words of pr...

The Housing Slowdown Could Become a Global Meltdown

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Young people unable to buy homes because of stratospheric price increases are cheering the downturn in some housing markets around the world. But they...

Covid's Supply Chain Chaos Is Just a Dress Rehearsal for What's Coming

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Despite all the highfalutin advances in automation and just-in-time inventory, Covid-19 has still managed to upend the world's supply chains. But all ...

Beijing Wants Young Chinese Workers to Love Capitalism Again

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dispirited by pandemic lockdowns and a massive real estate crisis, today’s young Chinese workers are dreaming less about becoming super-rich entrepr...

Why Italy’s Workforce Crisis Is Likely to Get Worse

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The global appeal of Italy’s fashion, food and sports cars long ago proved that the country’s businesses have few equals when it comes to marketin...

Abortion Ruling Is Part of a Global Reversal of Women’s Rights

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The US Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn the federal right to an abortion will have profound effects on American women. And while prim...

How Sri Lanka’s Financial Crisis Could Become the World’s

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the US, UK and other wealthy nations grouse about the prospect of stagflation and risk of recession, people in some emerging nations are facing mor...

Why Inflation's Fallout Is Becoming Increasingly Global

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

US inflation is at a 40-year high and the UK is effectively in recession as demand slows for Chinese-made goods. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, th...

Silencing the ‘Noise’ Behind Bad Corporate Decisionmaking

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Much of the appeal of McDonald’s comes from the chain’s consistency. A cheeseburger in the US or a McSpicy Chicken in India should taste t...

Why This Coming American Summit May Blow Up for Biden

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It seems like things could hardly get worse for President Joe Biden, who faces 8.3% inflation, a baby formula shortage and, according to the latest Ga...

How the Home of America's Worst Inflation Got That Way

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While the world's multimillionaires and billionaires (and multibillionaires) ponder inflation and supply shortages in the Swiss Alps, they might get a...

Rishi Sunak's Path Back From High Inflation and a Tax Scandal

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touted as a potential prime minister not long ago, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's star has been falling fast of late. Some of the blame can...

Will Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Revive the Sins of His Father?

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The old axiom about the sins of the father being visited upon their children got a shocking rebuttal this week, when Ferdinand Marcos Jr. won a landsl...

Higher Inflation, Rates Will Stick Around as Economies Go Green

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Persistently higher inflation and interest rates are probably in the offing as the world transitions to a greener economy. That’s hardly a selli...

The Looming Debt Crisis About to Make Everything Worse

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to imagine a more chaotic world than the one we’re in right now—what with Russia’s war on Ukraine, a Covid-19 pandem...

Central Banks Wrestle With the Crypto Conundrum

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When visiting El Salvador, be sure to bring sunscreen, a long-lens camera to memorialize its bountiful biodiversity and … Bitcoin. But have som...

Summers Predicts U.S. Recession More Likely Than a Soft Landing

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, Larry Summers famously shot down one of the Federal Reserve's favorite buzzwords, "transitory." This year, he's taking aim at "soft landing...

What's the Biggest Economic Peril? It Depends on Where You Live

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We may live in a global economy, but beyond the war in Ukraine, what's front-of-mind for policymakers in the U.S., Europe and China is very different....

Are Price-Gouging Consumer Giants to Blame for High Inflation?

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With his poll numbers falling, U.S. President Joe Biden is under pressure to do something—anything—to get inflation under control. That’s led hi...

Why the Fed Must Move Fast to Tame Inflation

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When facing an economic crisis, the Fed's playbook normally skews toward juicing the economy too much rather than too little. After all, in the last g...

Finance Minister Le Maire Explains the French Economic Comeback

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Closed schools. Empty shelves. Workers out sick. Almost two years after Covid-19 overturned the U.S. economy, "it's like deja vu all over again,'' in ...

Economies Have Adapted to a World Where Covid Calls the Shots

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With shortages at the grocery store and not enough people willing to work, 2022 is starting to look a lot like 2020. But beneath the ugly exterior, th...

The Stephanomics Global Preview for 2022

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While still recovering from a coronavirus-induced recession, the U.S. may be rushing into a new downturn, this time thanks to inflation. Its economy f...

Larry Summers Predicts the Future, and It Doesn't Look Good

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Economically at least, this holiday season feels a bit more like it belongs to Ebenezer Scrooge than Santa Claus. Amid a resurgent pandemic, there are...

Chinese Workers Are Saying Enough Is Enough, and Xi Is Not Amused

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The so-called great resignation that’s confounding businesses in the West has a counterpart in a most unlikely place: China. This week, we offer a d...

How Global Catastrophe Has Only Made Billionaires Richer

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It seems nothing can hurt the world's billionaires, not the worst pandemic in a century or a global recession. On this week's podcast, New York-based ...

Inflation Poses a Growing Credibility Risk for Central Banks

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Initially, Jerome Powell said the highest inflation in decades was going to be "transitory." This week, the world's most powerful central banker said ...

John Kerry Explains Why the Glasgow Climate Deal Matters

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we unpack two very different challenges facing global leaders: the climate crisis and domestic violence. First, U.S. Special Presidential En...

Global Warming Is Pushing Humanity Toward Hunger. Can It Be Stopped?

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As if rising sea levels and fiercer cyclones weren't enough to worry about, the climate crisis is already cutting crop yields and could lead to widesp...

More Nations Bend to the Economic Cost of Covid Zero-Tolerance

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One by one, countries that sought to stamp out Covid-19's spread with aggressive lockdowns are giving up zero-tolerance policies and learning to live ...

What’s Really Causing the Labor Shortage

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robots may replace us eventually, but for now Covid-19 has revealed just how desperate businesses are for workers of the human variety, and the broade...

Should Central Banks Be Responsible for Saving the World?

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As if controlling spiraling inflation wasn’t enough to worry about, the world’s central bankers are under increasing pressure to help solve climat...

How China and Evergrande Are Trying to Avoid Disaster

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

More than a decade after the U.S. subprime crisis sparked the Great Recession, the threat of default at giant property developer Evergrande is raising...

The Next Recession Could Come Courtesy of the Fed

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Central bankers are in a precarious spot in this chaotic pandemic economy. U.S. and U.K. consumers are grousing about rising prices and want some reli...

How Europe’s Pandemic Labor Policies Have Bested the U.S.

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An old debate in economic circles is whether Europe’s strong safety net and worker protections are preferable to America’s more company-friendly l...

Introducing: Breakthrough

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We sta...

Why Global Supply Chains Have Become So Snarled

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, more than 60 container ships sat anchored off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, waiting for their chance to unload as ma...

How Biden Can Keep Jerome Powell While Making Progressives Happy

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Federal Reserve is theoretically above the fray in Washington, but in these hyperpartisan times both Democrats and Republicans are keen to keep th...

Your Privacy May Be at Stake as Central Banks Develop Digital Currencies

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the not-too-distant future, every time you buy a cup of coffee, someone somewhere might know about it. That’s an unnerving prospect as private co...

Why Cutting Unemployment Aid Isn't Filling America's 9.2 Million Open Jobs

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Criticism from the right regarding U.S. government aid to unemployed workers has intensified of late, with governors in some Republican-leaning states...

Why China Surpassing America’s Economy Isn’t a Sure Thing

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

China’s climb to the top of world economic rankings is considered a foregone conclusion in many circles, especially those inside the Chinese Communi...

Ray Dalio and Lawrence Summers Keep Sounding the Inflation Alarm

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The early days of the pandemic saw a scramble to unleash massive monetary and fiscal bailouts to counter the fallout of a global health crisis and the...

China ‘Banks’ Time for Its Elderly While U.S. Seniors Drown in Debt

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After more than three decades enforcing its one-child policy, China finds itself with too many elders in need of care and too few caregivers to provid...

Why Inflation May Be Here to Stay, Hurting Poor Nations Most

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The wealthiest nations are emerging from the pandemic stronger than anyone thought, nervous about inflation but otherwise feeling they’ve dodged a b...

Japan’s Difficult Choice Between Economy and Pandemic

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Summer Olympics in Tokyo are little more than a month away, and workers are readying a rebuilt National Stadium for the opening ceremony. But what...

Canada’s Rising Star Sticks to Her Guns On Stimulus

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada has a well-earned reputation as the world’s “goody two shoes,” with a progressive record on civil liberties and a history of sticking to ...

America's Economic Recovery Isn't Roaring For Everyone

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After more than a year of pandemic, the U.S. economy is roaring back and is now expected to grow by 9.4% in the second quarter. That's fueling a mad s...

Why "Living Local" and High Inflation May Not Outlast the Global Pandemic

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The pandemic has upended the way the world shops, worships and especially how often we wash our hands. With the virus waning in many parts of the glob...

What’s Really Behind the Great 2021 Inflation Debate

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a long time since anyone in America or Europe had to think seriously about inflation. But the highest U.S. numbers since 2009 have rattled...

Why the Rise of Mega-Companies May Damage the Global Economy

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The world’s biggest businesses are massive, spanning countries and continents. Now they're getting even larger, and that may not be a good thing. In...