Tag: Bloomberg View
Conservatives sour on colleges, understandably
Despite decades of talk radio hosts complaining about pointy-headed liberal academics, Republicans in 2010 were still pretty fond of higher education. Fifty-eight percent of...
Remote work not just about convenience
When I peered in the window at 140 Hawthorne St. in San Francisco, the place looked deserted. Maybe Automattic, the company that owns WordPress,...
Alarm over consumer debt overblown
There is no shortage of worrisome articles about consumer debt. And expect to see such concerns continue now that household debt surpassed the peak...
No bull market for finance jobs
The subject of Wall Street employment came up via my colleague Josh Brown, who mused that this may be the first bull market when...
Fossil fuels won’t vanish
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s latest New Energy Outlook points the way to a sunny, windy future for the global, electric power industry. That doesn’t...
How you know when the CEO is a goner
After a string of scandals and embarrassments, Uber’s embattled CEO Travis Kalanick was forced to resign. The assumption is that he was pushed out...
A warning sign for the economy?
Many economists and pundits take it on faith that weak business investment is a bad thing. It’s well-known that over the course of the...
Where America gets its electricity
The way the U.S. generates electricity has changed a lot over the past decade.
Solar, for example, is gaining fast and in a few places...
The downsizing of retail
Despite record highs in the markets, bad news about consumers has been relentless: malls are closing; consumers have accumulated too much debt; incomes are...
Tourism holding its own
People in the travel business have been warning that President Donald Trump’s administration’s isolationist rhetoric and tougher border controls – as evidenced by the...