Tag: world views
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World Views | Google and Twitter are right. Workers should stay home
The more I read and hear about what offices will be like as they reopen, the more dystopian it sounds: empty desks, no meetings, everyone keeping their ... -
World Views | The coronavirus isn’t the end of your career
For the hotel chef who can’t afford his nine prescriptions, losing a job could be a matter of life and death. Even among the employed, ... -
World Views | Vast numbers of unemployed will undermine China’s recovery on NPC’s watch
Millions of Chinese people are being thrown out of work by the collapse in global demand and a slow restart of the domestic economy. A ... -
World Views | Reinventing holidays for the coronavirus era
The world’s biggest package-holiday company has given a glimpse of what vacations will look like as long as the novel coronavirus remains a potent health threat. ... -
World Views | Students can’t afford to take the whole summer off
Having slogged through weeks of unevenly administered distance learning, schools in the U.S. are preparing to shut down for the summer. Amid the stress of ... -
World Views | Half-time high school may be just what students need
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Bloomberg Opinion will be running a series of features by our columnists that consider the long-term consequences of the crisis. This ... -
World Views | Senators’ stock trades would make a poker cheat blush
One dispiriting story of the Covid-19 pandemic is that four U.S. senators sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in the days after getting ... -
World Views | Diamonds need some new best friends
It’s looking decidedly somber out there for the world’s favorite sparkly stone. Diamonds were ailing even before the coronavirus came along. Now, weeks into lockdowns ... -
World Views | Singapore proves there’s no textbook virus response
Once lauded as a beacon in the fight against Covid-19, Singapore reached an unenviable milestone this week: the most cases in Southeast Asia. Soaring infections ... -
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TAIWAN The founder of a bookshop specializing in texts critical of China’s Communist Party leaders was attacked with red paint in Taiwan yesterday, but suffered no ... -
World Views | A wealth tax isn’t the right way to pay for the pandemic
An epidemic is often referred to as a “great leveler” since viruses infect people indiscriminately regardless of their net worth. However, the economic consequences of the ... -
World Views | Why science won’t ace its Covid-19 test
A New York Times article published earlier this month proclaimed that, according to scientists, “never before have so many of the world’s researchers focused so ... -
World Views | Humans have themselves to blame for Covid-19
No one could have predicted the timing and trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic, triggered by a novel coronavirus leaping from a bat into a pangolin (apparently) and ... -
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SOUTH KOREA reported 32 additional cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, a continued downward trend in new infections in the country. The Korea ... -
World Views | China is reopening its wet markets. That’s good
Here’s one more issue to add to the bonfire of tensions with China brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The country is reportedly reopening its wet ... -
World Views | Cash and credit cards are dirty
Cash is dirty. Credit cards may be even dirtier. That’s a problem in this new germophobic world created by the coronavirus. There will likely be new ... -
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CHINESE officials say dry conditions, high temperatures and a sudden change in wind direction all contributed to the deaths of 19 people in a forest fire ... -
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PANDEMIC Bells tolled in Madrid’s deserted central square and flags were lowered in a day of mourning yesterday as Spain raced to build field hospitals to ... -
World Views | Coronavirus makes America seem like a civilization in decline
Crises such wars, depressions, natural disasters and pandemics can reveal differences in how effectively a society organizes itself. In the 1600s and 1700s, for example, ... -
World Views | Nike’s Workout App Beats the Coronavirus Blues: Andrea Felsted
As consumer groups grapple with how to cope with the unprecedented impact of Covid-19, Nike Inc., one of the world’s most successful brands, has given a ... -
World Views | Coronavirus has turned the Facebook narrative
The tension between the media and technology industries has long been characterized as a fight for users’ attention. The more of it they have, the ... -
World Views | A Look at Economies and Markets After Covid-19
The 1920s didn’t “roar” until viewed from the perspective of the depressionary 1930s. Similarly, in the aftermath of the serious global recession I believe the ... -
World Views | Face masks signal loud and clear
One of the curious little mysteries of the coronavirus pandemic is why Japan’s cases have increased so slowly. The country hasn’t implemented the widespread testing of South ... -
World Views | Big business has all the advantages in the pandemic
Even if fiscal stimulus is successful in getting the U.S. economy back on stable ground after the Covid-19 crisis, the economy will inevitably be transformed. When ... -
World Views | The economic myths US Democrats peddled at debate
At their debate in Ohio Tuesday night, Democratic presidential candidates emphasized what’s wrong with the economy. That’s not at all surprising: The party out of the ... -
World Views | Bank of England and UK show how to deal with virus
Despite losing an empire and the sterling as the world’s reserve currency, the U.K. managed for years to punch well above its weight on international economic ... -
World Views | The last place you’d think to hide in a meltdown
As if markets didn’t have enough trouble. With the coronavirus outbreak intensifying, and the first shots of an oil price war fired, investors seem to be ... -
World Views | Tech companies can track your panicky coronavirus searches
Two weeks ago, Sand Hill Road VC firm Andreessen Horowitz received some heckling after posting a “No Handshakes” notice on their front entrance. Coronavirus cases were still rare ... -
World Views | The world is a giant cruise ship called the Covid-19
I extended my hand to the woman with whom I’d been chatting for the past few minutes. “I’m Virginia,” I said. To my surprise, she responded ... -
World Views | Iran can’t be trusted to deal with coronavirus
If the leadership of the World Health Organization can spare a moment from their genuflecting to Beijing, they should direct their attention to another authoritarian state struggling ... -
World Views | China’s policy flip-flops are scaring investors
The Chinese public was caught off-guard Monday when Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, said it would ease a sweeping lockdown on the city, only ... -
World Views | The Trump effect on the economy is undeniable
Economists typically argue that the president has little effect on the economy. But it’s hard to think of a recent president for whom that is ... -
World Views | The economic hit from coronavirus is all in your mind
Hindsight can be an asset during an epidemic: Lessons from the past help steer public decision-making and avoid repeating mistakes. Unfortunately, rearview mirrors appear to be ... -
World Views | How to navigate your most dangerous decade
Losing a job is almost always traumatic. In your 50s, job loss can be devastating — and devastatingly common. More than half the workers who entered ... -
World Views | How the coronavirus could help Trump
There has been plenty of talk about how the coronavirus might affect politics in China, for example by eroding trust between the Chinese public and its leadership. In ...
