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Bloomberg
30-04-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
Singapore and Australia Vote for the House
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a welcome evolution of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here. This morning I came across a delicious cookie variety I'd never heard of at my local coffee shop: an Anzac biscuit. I asked the barista where the name came from, and she vaguely told me that it had 'something to do with war.' According to Wikipedia, women made Anzac biscuits (not to be confused with ANZAC wafers) for their husbands in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I.
Bloomberg
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Scott Bessent, What Was That?
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a drastic policy shift of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here. Tuesday afternoon, Lorde told fans to meet her in the park at 7 p.m. Which park, though? It had to be in New York — she's recently been spotted at a Nicks game and Paul Mescal's play. Sleuths determined she'd be at Washington Square Park, where she'd made a TikTok a few weeks prior. By dusk, a massive crowd had assembled in front of the arch, with some fans sprinting down sidewalks and scaling trees to get a better view. But when the clock struck seven, the singer posted on Instagram that the NYPD had shut down the show. Disappointed hoards of fans were seen singing her songs on the street.
Fox News
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Larry David mocks Bill Maher's meeting with Trump as 'My Dinner with Adolf' in NYT satire
Comedian Larry David parodied HBO host Bill Maher's cordial dinner with President Donald Trump in a New York Times satire piece describing an "authentic" and "human" dinner with Adolf Hitler. The "Real Time" host angered many members of the liberal media by not only meeting with the president but describing him as "gracious and measured" despite their political differences. "Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists. Because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent at least on this night with this guy," Maher said earlier this month. He added, "I've had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people who don't look you in the eye, people don't really listen because they just want to get to their next thing… None of that was him, and he mostly steered the conversation to 'What do you think about this?' I know, your mind is blown. So is mine." David's article on Monday took a similar approach, depicting a fictional dinner between himself and Hitler in 1939 and reflecting that "if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion." "Suddenly he seemed so human," David wrote. "Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I'd seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning." New York Times Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy defended the paper's decision to publish the story in the Opinion Today newsletter, despite its "really high bar for commenting on today's world by invoking Hitler." He argued the article was not about comparing Trump to Hitler but about "seeing someone for who they really are and not losing sight of that." "Larry David, in a provocation of his own, is arguing that during a single dinner or a private meeting, anyone can be human, and it means nothing in the end about what they're capable of," Healy wrote. Fox News Digital reached out to Maher's publicist for a comment. Washington Post columnist León Krauze wrote a similar piece last week comparing Maher's comments about Trump to flattery others have given to Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong over their private interactions. "By agreeing to meet with Trump, allowing himself to be privately charmed by a charismatic leader and then sharing his softened new take on the president, Bill Maher has made the task of holding Trump accountable that much more difficult," Krauze concluded.
Bloomberg
16-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
This Economy Isn't Making Anybody Comfy
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a global contagion of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here. The tragedy hit in the year 2008. In retrospect, all the signals were there. Spending was spiraling out of control. Up to one in every 12 Americans was caught up in it. What was being sold as security left everybody fleeced. Slick marketing promised us flexibility, but we ended up trapped inside our investments. We all wanted a comfort zone, but many were left in the cold. And the results were hideous:
Bloomberg
15-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
‘Drill Baby Drill' and Other Economic Delusions
Save I'm Jonathan Levin and this is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a luxurious collection of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here. A few months back, the buzz was that Donald Trump's second presidency would generate boom-like conditions across the US economy. Booming consumption! Booming energy production! Booming financial markets! Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal
