Anne Riley Moffat

How to Solve the US Farmworker Shortage, According to Congress As the Trump administration prioritizes immigration enforcement, representatives from farming districts say they need a creative solution to their labor problems, and fast.

As the Trump administration prioritizes immigration enforcement, representatives from farming districts say they need a creative solution to their labor problems, and fast. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Floyd Mayweather’s Latest Side Hustle? Supplement Salesman The highest-paid boxer of all time says every new investment is about building generational wealth.

Inside a kind of bizarre boat ride with Floyd Mayweather: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

An Investor’s Guide to Africa Africa is changing fast—and the competition to invest is heating up.

Global investors are looking at the 54 nations that make up Africa with fresh eyes. In Bloomberg Businessweek’s Investor’s Guide to Africa, we lay out some of the continent’s top risks and opportunities: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

It’s Like Uber Eats But for Israeli Arabs Without Home Addresses Startup Haat gets pizzas to shoppers in traditionally underserved neighborhoods, and they’re still hot. It’s a model it plans to take global.

Pulling off a successful meal-delivery app means overcoming a host of challenges, from leaky containers to tepid food. But that’s nothing compared to what Hasan Abasi’s startup Haat deals with: Many of his Israeli Arab customers don’t have home addresses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Buldak’s Spicy Ramen Is Riding TikTok Fame to the Top The South Korean company’s ridiculously spicy instant noodles have been around for more than a decade, but the growth just keeps on coming, thanks to their repeated online fame.

You might not know much about Buldak, but I promise you that your Gen Alpha kid does: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @bloomberg.com

Drilling Frenzy Arrives in Canada’s Pristine Wilderness As countries around the world scramble to secure fuel to run their power plants, natural gas has attracted energy producers to Canada’s westernmost province.

Drill, baby, drill—but this time in Canada’s wilderness. British Columbia is transforming into a hydrocarbon powerhouse, thanks to the world’s almost insatiable demand for natural gas www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @bloomberg.com #LNG

Trump’s Global Trade Chaos Creates an Opportunity for African Farmers The continent is positioning itself as a pivotal player in the future of global agriculture, and investors are taking notice.

Long viewed through the lens of subsistence farming and postcolonial land rights, African agriculture is rapidly becoming a proving ground for global investment. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Din Tai Fung Became America’s Top-Earning Restaurant Chain The dumpling restaurant was started in Taiwan half a century ago. Now there are 17 always-packed locations in the US, including one in Disneyland.

Twenty-five years ago, a 19-table outpost of a popular Taiwanese restaurant set up shop in a suburban Los Angeles strip mall. Today—with 17 US locations and more on the way—it’s the top-earning restaurant chain in America.

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American Farmers Are Feeling the Pain of Trump’s Policies US agricultural communities that had expected Trump to have their backs have found themselves flung into a second trade war. If the situation continues, it could put loyalties at risk.

American farmers aren't alright. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How RFK Jr. Is Pushing the CDC to the Brink A small but vocal contingent has long been demanding changes at the agency. With an ally in RFK Jr., it’s finally getting what it wants—to the horror of the scientists he’s sidelined.

In the months since RFK Jr. took over the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, the agency has been thrown into disarray. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Your Paycheck in Stablecoins? That’s Local Banks’ Worst Nightmare The tokens have entered the conversation as a mainstream financial instrument, thanks to the support of the Trump administration. For the community lenders that fund American homes and businesses, the...

Stablecoins are coming. Local lenders are worried. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Ironman CEO Wants to Turn the Race Organizer Into a Lifestyle Brand If you can swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run a marathon back to back, then Scott DeRue think you’ll like what he’s selling.

Runners (and bikers, and swimmers) can be obsessive about their sport all year round, not just at race time. That’s where Ironman Group hopes to come in: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Technicolor’s Last Frame: The Collapse and Liquidation of a Hollywood Legend An icon from the Golden Age of Hollywood adapted and grew for more than a century before things abruptly fell apart.

Creditors that had backed Technicolor for years through several liquidity crunches are set to recover next to nothing. How did it all fall apart for this Hollywood icon?https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-technicolor-collapse/ via @bloomberg.com

Novo Has High Hopes That Ozempic Pill Can Also Fight Dementia From obesity and diabetes to heart and liver disease, the applications for GLP-1 drugs have multiplied since Ozempic arrived on the scene seven years ago. Now, Novo is testing their effect on Alzheime...

Is there anything Ozempic can't do!? We're about to find out. Novo is testing the effect of GLP-1s on Alzheimer’s, with results due out this fall. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @bloomberg.com

Korean Companies Pay Employees Huge Sums to Have More Kids The country’s powerful boardrooms are adding their own incentives on top of existing government efforts to avert a demographic collapse.

So if one were to, say, move to Korea with a two year old and join this company, would one also be able to accept the $72,000 retroactive cash? Asking for a friend. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Monchhichi Makes a Comeback Amid Labubu Craze Gen Z’s obsession with fluffy keychains and stuffies for adults is breathing new life into a 51-year old Japanese character.

The last time this Japanese monkey went viral was decades ago. Now Monchhichi is back, thanks to a big bump in overseas sales.

Monchhichi Makes a Comeback Amid Labubu Craze Gen Z’s obsession with fluffy keychains and stuffies for adults is breathing new life into a 51-year old Japanese character.

Japan’s Monchhichi brand is undergoing a demand surge rivaling that of the toy’s original heyday in the 1970s and ’80s. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Bombas Built a Fancy Socks Empire With $500 Million in Sales More than a decade after their Shark Tank appearance, the company’s co-founders have successfully pushed into T-shirts, slippers and undergarments.

How Bombas built a fancy socks empire with $500 million in sales: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

J.Crew Survived Bankruptcy. Next Up: Cultural Relevance? CEO Libby Wadle, who took the helm in 2020, says the company is “back in the conversation”—and not readying itself for a sale.

I remember when J.Crew was the coolest. Can it earn its way back to Americans' closets? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Artificial Dyes Are Disappearing Inside the Welch’s Fruit Snacks Factory A painstaking initiative to eliminate synthetic food dyes from the lunch box staple pays off at just the right time.

More than 100 packs of Welch’s Fruit Snacks are consumed every second. See how they’re made (now artificial dye free) here: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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How Taylor Swift Turned a Glitter Freckle Maker Into a Sensation A beauty company’s signature product went viral at a Chiefs game last fall. Private equity firms have been knocking on its 29-year-old co-founders’ doors ever since.

Sometimes, I edit stories about something that's going viral and I just don't get it. On this one, I can see the appeal. I mean, who doesn't love a little glam??

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Godzilla Conquered Japan. Now Its Owner Plots a Global Takeover Tokyo’s biggest filmmaker, Toho, is looking to expand its prehistoric “atomic-breathing” creature into games and attractions around the world.

Loved Godzilla Minus One? Shin Godzilla? Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Jujutsu Kaisen or My Hero Academia? Well, have I got some news for you: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #anime #manga #movies #japan

Raquel Urtasun, CEO of the autonomous trucking startup Waabi, says the industry’s R&D stage is about to give way to commercial prime time. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Double rainbow

Rainbow over Hudson

Rainbow under bridge

Commuter art exhibit 🌈🌈

Thailand’s Changing Cannabis Rules Leave Farmers in a Tough Spot With the Southeast Asian nation moving to recriminalize the drug after just three years, the mountainous communities that grow it are bracing for real pain.

Thailand legalized cannabis in 2022, ushering in a new age of marijuana tourism. Now, the government has reversed course, and the local agricultural communities growing the plant are bracing for real pain ahead.

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Now THIS is a story near and dear to my over-caffeinated heart. | Anne Riley Moffat Now THIS is a story near and dear to my over-caffeinated heart. Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter of coffee, has long grappled with coffee bean thefts by petty criminals and organized...

Overall cargo thefts have dropped in Brazil from a peak of more than 25,000 in 2017 to about 10,000 last year, the lowest since records began in 2015, Ministry of Justice and Public Security data show. But #coffee bean thefts just keep going up. www.linkedin.com/posts/anneri...

America’s Overheated Landfills Have Been Making People Sick Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers of trash juice.

America has a hot garbage problem.
(Not that hot garbage problem. A different one.)
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a chart showing Kospi beating S&P500

Everyone's talking about the S&P 500 these days, but it's South Korea's stock market that's really having a moment. Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SNAP Cuts in Big Tax Bill Will Hit a Lot of Trump Voters Too More than 40 million people relied on the food-assistance program in 2024, or about 12% of the population. Many are located in red districts represented by legislators who support gutting the aid.

Trump’s allies love to talk about the food we’re eating: too sugary, too processed, too artificially dyed. What they’re not talking about is how many don’t have enough of it, healthy or not. And that number is only going to go up. #taxbill @deenashanker.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...