Trumponomics

Biden-Powell Duo’s Macro Policy Revolution

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

U.S. President Biden marked his 100th day in office this week with another massive spending package -- this one squarely aimed at taxing the rich to g...

Covid Changed Work, But Will That Change Last Forever?

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For many, the pandemic has altered where we work, how we work and when we work. But will that change be forever? Or will we wake up in a year and find...

Landing on the Moon Is a Great Lesson for Modern Miracles

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

More than 50 years ago, the public and private sectors united to bring men to the moon and back. As the world begins to look at how it can recover fro...

The Return of the V Shaped Recovery

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recent weeks have seen an outpouring of optimism about the economic recovery, especially in the U.S. The International Monetary Fund has added its voi...

Covid’s Long Year of Economic Destruction

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the world enters a second year of Covid-19, we begin our new season of Stephanomics with perspectives on the pandemic’s fallout from Bloomberg co...

Introducing: Doubt

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A few decades ago, nobody really questioned vaccines. They were viewed as a standard part of staying healthy and safe. Today, the number of people que...

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average...

World Bank's Reinhart Says Win Covid War First, Pay for It Later

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Governments spent trillions of dollars in 2020 tackling the pandemic while propping up businesses and households. But the unprecedented expenditure ha...

A Sneak Preview of Janet Yellen’s Treasury

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Economic Cost of Covid's Mental Health Crisis

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How Covid Laid Bare America’s Economic and Political Divides

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Stephanomics Global Preview for 2021

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The events of 2020 caught most people off guard. The global economy was upended, prompting unprecedented responses by governments and central banks wh...

Is the Pandemic the Answer to the Productivity Puzzle?

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. Ba...

How Covid-19 Is Helping Robots Take Your Job

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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, a...

The Taxing Problem of Global Tech Giants

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 gl...

What Does Bidenomics Look Like?

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 expec...

A New Intergenerational Contract for the Pandemic Age

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 con...

Crisis Rock Stars Rate the World’s Response to Covid-19

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Lost Opportunities for Asia’s Lockdown Generation

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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, tha...

President Donald Trump's Economic Scorecard

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How to Build Back Greener After the Pandemic

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alongside the financial destruction wrought by Covid-19 there comes new opportunities. European officials have seized on one in particular—mending b...

Covid Forced the World to Change in Ways We May Keep

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amid its terrible death toll and economic devastation, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted people, businesses and governments to rethink the way the...

Which Jobs Are Really Worth Saving?

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The pandemic has raised the specter of mass unemployment across many developed economies. In Europe, governments stepped in to help pay millions of wo...

The Inequality of America’s K-Shaped Recovery

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Bonus: The Emperor’s New Road

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 P...

Bonus: Beer is Flowing Again

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Stel...

Bonus: Superpower Showdown

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Bonus: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

What Top Economists Take From the Covid-19 Crisis

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The novel coronavirus has reshaped the global economy, shifting the attitudes of governments, central bankers and consumers alike. It has changed how ...

Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

Can 'Creative Destruction' Work During a Pandemic?

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

What Wuhan Can Teach Us About Recovery

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why Europe Finds It Hard to Break Chinese Supply Chains

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Covid-19’s fracturing of supply chains has left businesses and governments questioning the prudence of networks that crisscross the planet. Pandemic...

Introducing Foundering

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Stiglitz, Roubini and the Post-Pandemic Future of Capitalism

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 capi...

Covid-19’s Fresh Injustice for Black-Owned American Businesses

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As protests against racial discrimination and police killings continue across the U.S., another injustice is ripping through American cities: Black-ow...

Black Joblessness Shows Fed Must Look at Inequality

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Protests all across America following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, have put yet another spotlight on the deep...

Madrid’s Restaurants Face a Hard Road in the Post-Covid World

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Europe is emerging after weeks of lockdowns that kept shops and businesses shuttered, and residents safe at home. On this week’s episode, Bloomberg ...

A 70,000 Year View on the Covid-19 Crisis

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Covid-19 is the biggest threat to our physical and economic health in recent times, but on this week’s episode, Columbia University professor Jeffre...

For the Coronavirus Economy, This Time Truly Is Different

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rich Nations Face a Post-Covid World Without Cheap Migrant Labor

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Romanian home-care workers in Italy. Indian construction crews in Dubai. Filipino maids and cooks in Singapore. The world’s wealthy economies depend...

How the Pandemic Jobs Bust Will Hurt Some More Than Others

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 acro...

Waffle House Signals U.S. Reopening, But It Won’t Be Simple

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

China’s Uneven Reopening Shows Fear Might Hold Back Economies

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The IMF’s Chief Economist on Lessons From the "Great Lockdown"

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mid-April is when the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their spring meetings, where finance ministers and central bankers gather to...

Governments Try to Spend Their Way Out of Coronavirus Shock

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For years, a small band of economists pushed an unorthodox approach to government spending (particularly in the U.S.), arguing that concern about defi...

How the Coronavirus Has Broken the Global Economy

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 repor...

Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harnessing Bloomberg's reporting from every continent, Bloomberg's daily Prognosis podcast brings the news, data and analysis you need for living in t...

Thomas Piketty's New Book Is About a Lot More Than Capitalism

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Global Virus, Global Trade—Global Impact

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Stephanomics concludes its second season with a preview of Bloomberg Markets’ special trade issue, along with a look at what could stop t...

Three Perspectives On the Biggest Issues at Davos

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

How One U.S. State Is Trying to Close the Huge Education Gap

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 le...

Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Too Much Education Can Be Bad for Your Economic Health

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 episo...

The Global Economic Preview for 2020

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 electi...

How the Trade War Is Putting Christmas In a Brand New Light

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ec...

How Chile's Unrest is Affecting the Economy

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Tory Landslide, Now What? (Bloomberg Westminster Bonus Episode)

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this special bonus episode, Stephanie Flanders joins the Bloomberg Westminster podcast to discuss the dramatic British election night.The Conservat...

Remembering Paul Volcker

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

More Than Just Brexit

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Superyachts: The Key to the Global Economy

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Driving the New Economy

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s episode of Stephanomics comes to you from Beijing, where Bloomberg hosted the second annual New Economy Forum, bringing together global ...

Is It Curtains for the U.S.-China Economic Relationship?

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Beneath the tariffs, counter-tariffs and on-again off-again negotiations between the U.S. and China over trade policy, a deeper confrontation is brewi...

What the Sanders or Warren Wealth Tax Means for Inequality in the U.S.

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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....

How the Trade War Is Reshaping Supply Chains From Los Angeles to Vietnam

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Economies represent the ultimate sum of millions of people and businesses making millions of decisions. And if enough of those businesses are frozen o...

Washington Talks, the World Listens

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future for international institutions like the International Monetary Fund - and what, if anything, can it do to help Argentina? These are...

Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

A Newly Minted Nobel Laureate on Making Economics More of a Science

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The macroeconomic kind of economist tends to get the most attention - talking about growth, inflation and whether interest rates should go up or down....

The Baby Bust and the Global Economy

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Growth has been slowing around the developed world — not just in recent months but for decades. One potential reason is that women are having fewer ...

The Trade War Has Already Caused a Recession for America's Factories

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Flanders returns with a new season of Stephanomics, bringing on-the-ground insights from Bloomberg's reporters and economists into the force...

Introducing Stephanomics Season 2

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, returns to bring you another season of on-the-ground insight into the forces driving global growth an...

Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs

28 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this new season of Prognosis, we look at the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. You're probably more likely to hav...

Bretton Woods at 75 and the Other Mexico Border Crisis

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Under pressure from President Donald Trump, Mexico is cracking down on migrants coming from its own southern neighbor, Guatemala. But the hit to the l...

The View From Paris

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The yellow-vest protests that shook France last year may be over, but the forces of political and economic anger continue to ripple around the world. ...

In Spain, the Olive's Loss Is Aluminum's Gain

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s trade policies have created winners and losers around the world. Among the big losers so far, count Spanish olive farmers. Their expo...

Is Populism the End or Salvation of Liberal Democracy?

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we bring you a special conversation between host Stephanie Flanders and Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf. They try to make sense of the...

India: All Growth, No Jobs

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we focus on the two giants of the global economy: China and India. At first glance, China seems to be shrugging off the effects of U.S. tari...

Draghi and Diversity

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi earned the ire of Donald Trump this week with his farewell speech at a major annual conference. Editor Pa...

A Nobelist on the Future of Work

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Workers around the globe are in for a shock in coming decades as automation transforms the workplace and maybe destroys their jobs. But for Nobel-winn...

Four Days a Week

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you live in the U.K., your workweek could soon be a day shorter if the political winds tilt more heavily toward the left. Jess Shankleman reports o...

Trade War Footing

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's episode, former Obama administration official Wendy Cutler draws on her deep experience as a trade negotiator to offer her views on the...

Bloomberg Presents "What Goes Up"

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“What Goes Up” is a new show from Bloomberg that tracks the main themes influencing global markets. Hosts Sarah Ponczek and Mike Regan speak with ...

Bloomberg and Wondery Present: The Shrink Next Door

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A failing relationship. He needed someone to help h...

The Streak Down Under

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The longest economic expansion in the developed world may not be much longer for this world -- and that fear helped drive the shock election result in...

Reinventing Germany's Economy

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Germany's engineering prowess has driven the nation's economic success for decades. Now that model is being questioned thanks to rising protectionism,...

China's Millennials Are Changing the World

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Where are there more millennials than in North America, Europe and the Middle East combined, who are vastly different from their parents' generation? ...

Introducing: Business of Bees

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee pollination. And the economic value of insect pollin...

Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Working)

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many older Americans are living longer and are happy to keep working. Others can't afford to retire. Those are just a couple of the reasons why people...

Can Free Markets Revive Brazil?

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Will a dose of free-market policies -- from a populist politician, no less -- finally bring Latin America's biggest economy back to life? On this week...

Can Technology Actually Save Jobs?

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Of the many forces driving the wave of hiring across the U.S. in recent years, technology is typically not on the list because automation and artifici...

Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek speak with expert guests each week about the main themes influencing global market...

This Country Is Winning the Trade War

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The trade war between the U.S. and China is taking a toll on growth in the world's two largest economies, but there's another nation where the tariff ...

The Fortnite Economy

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fortnite may be the biggest video-game phenomenon with more than 200 million registered players. It's also a good place to start if you want to unders...

Coming Soon: Stephanomics

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's head of economics, takes you on location each week to bring the global economy to life. From Asia's factories to Brazi...

A Message For Benchmark Listeners

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's senior executive editor for economics, has some exciting news about what's coming in the Benchmark feed.See omnystudio...

Introducing "Works For Me," A New Podcast From Bloomberg

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Francesca Levy and Rebecca Greenfield navigate the productivity industry by way of their own experiences. In ea...

Big Data's Lens Into the U.S. Economy

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Most U.S. economic data, such as jobs and consumer spending, is based not on actual data, but on surveys of Americans and businesses. What if you coul...

What Climate Change Means for the Global Economy

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Wildfires and hurricanes are causing increasing destruction, part of how climate change is reshaping economies around the world. There are also busine...

The Global Economy in 2019 and Beyond

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With power-shifting elections, emerging-market turbulence and a trade war making waves, how does it all add up for the world economy in 2019? Catherin...

Why The Global Labor Market Is Shrinking

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Look beyond headlines on unemployment and job creation and you'll see a bigger transformation. The global market for labor was boosted for three decad...