Therese Raphael

Now Is the Moment to Pressure Putin, Not Appease Him As the US grows frustrated with peacemaking efforts, Europe needs to step up its support for Ukraine’s defense.

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Welcome the Driverless Trucks After much experimentation, autonomous big rigs are now making real deliveries. Policymakers should start rolling out the red carpet.

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DOGE’s Damage Makes Way for Serious Government Reform Policymakers can no longer ignore the bureaucracy’s deficiencies.

After DOGE, what? Today's editorial from @opinion.
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America Needs to Be Strong. Why Weaken Its Banks? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has picked the worst possible moment to consider loosening a crucial financial system safeguard.

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White House Is Right to Back Off the Fed Challenging the central bank’s independence poses enormous economic risks.

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Farewell to Pope Francis, Exemplar of a Humble Faith By embracing the poor and marginalized, the 266th pope proved to be a consummately countercultural force.

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A Severe Test Lies Ahead for the Federal Reserve Before much longer, its hard-won credibility will be on the line.

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RFK Jr.’s Measles Message is Too Little, Too Late More Americans could die without a clear and authoritative directive encouraging them to get vaccinated.

After a 2nd child died of measles, RFK finally said vaccines are the best way to prevent it--then undid that bare minimum of good by praising "healers" in TX. His pattern of sandwiching medical facts between unproven treatments & junk science will cost lives. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com 🎁 link:

University Funding Should Be Reformed, Not Reduced Simpler accounting for administrative costs would be a step in the right direction.

Hi, here's today's editorial -- on right-sizing indirect costs in university funding without slashing innovation -- from @opinion.bloomberg.com
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‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Won’t Make America Wealthy Companies aren’t about to invest in the US without knowing how high import barriers might be next month or next year.

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Handouts Aren’t the Answer to US Shipbuilding Woes Stifled by protectionism, the industry was atrophying long before competitors seized market share. It’ll take more than money to revive it.

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The War on Government Statistics Has Quietly Begun What the elimination of an obscure advisory committee on economic data says about the administration’s commitment to relevance and accuracy.

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WHO Should Embrace Change and Get Back to Work The stakes are too high to forgo US funding.

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Heathrow Expansion Would Show Britain Is Ready to Take Off If this government is serious about overcoming stagnation, it must deliver on infrastructure projects like the airport’s expansion.

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Talking to Putin Won’t Be Enough to End Ukraine War The Russian leader says he’s ready to meet. He won’t negotiate seriously until the costs of fighting are steeper.

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‘Debanking’ Dispute Highlights a Real Problem Fixing anti-money-laundering rules can reduce the burden on banks and limit the harm to innocent customers.

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Trade Blackmail Will Backfire on the US Planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico have been suspended, but the economic damage has been done.

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The Fed’s Best Bet Is Patience as Confusion Reigns The outlook for economic policy is anybody’s guess. The central bank can’t afford to speculate.

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Extending the 2017 Tax Cuts Would Be Fiscally Reckless Much of the law was sensible — but with public debt on its current path, simply extending it is unaffordable.

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The Best Way to Oppose Trump Is Repair, Not Resist Building a coalition to restore normal politics and good government should take precedence over a scorched earth effort aimed at defeating political enemies.

"On issue after issue — immigration, taxes, government spending, tariffs, DEI — Trump’s plans reflect genuine popular concerns but propose seriously misguided answers. His agenda cries out for a stiff dose of restraint and common sense."
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DeepSeek’s AI Triumph Shouldn’t Deep-Six Chip Curbs US export controls are meant to slow down Chinese progress in AI, not halt it altogether. They’re still valuable.

Today's Editorial from @opinion.bloomberg.com (and beneath it a bonus -- column from my colleague Clive Crook on how "repair" rather than "resist" is the best answer to Trump:
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How Trump Can Slash Red Tape and Enrich America, Too America's tax system for citizens abroad is a disaster. Changing it is one of the president’s better ideas.

NGL, today's @opinion.bloomberg.com editorial is especially close to my (expat) heart.

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The UK Needs a Growth Strategy Markets Can Like Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules haven’t erased questions about the government’s plans.

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Trump Leaving WHO Puts US at the Back of the Line in Global Health With its withdrawal, the US cedes its outsize influence in the global health organization to countries like China and puts lives at risk.

Leaving the WHO puts the US on the outside looking in when it comes to global health. Not a great start to that promise to Make America Healthy Again. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

H-1B Visa Lottery Is Shutting Out Top Talent. Replace It A merit-based system will return the policy to its intended purpose.

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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance Homeowners in increasingly risky areas can’t obtain adequate coverage as insurers flee the state to avoid losses.

"Policymakers need to decide when to let the rising seas or expanding deserts take over land where people used to be and build new, affordable housing for those people in safer areas." - @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Britain Has Failed Vulnerable Children for Too Long A dormant but shocking scandal has regained the public’s attention. The UK needs to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse.

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America Needs to Break Its Debt Addiction — Crisis or Not Bloomberg Opinion’s fiscal hawk takes on its market optimist in a debate about whether the US is on a path to financial ruin.

The @opinion.bloomberg.com series of articles on the US debt -- how worrying is it really, and what should be done? -- are worth reading if you missed it in the end-of-year rush. Here's a great back and forth with colleagues Robert Burgess and Clive Crook.
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Will Scott Bessent Be a Loyalist or a Moderating Voice? Trump’s choice of Treasury secretary is capable and qualified. That will make following the president-elect’s instructions quite a challenge.

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