Carolyn Silverman

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | John Authers |Richard Abbey |Carolyn Silverman

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell has barely a year left to fortify his legacy. For all the plaudits he gets for steering an aggressive hiking cycle without crashing the economy, it will be forever tarnished by misdiagnosing post-pandemic inflation as transitory. That misjudgment proved costly to monetary policy credibility. For now, that’s water under the bridge.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | John Authers |Richard Abbey |Carolyn Silverman

NowBARCELONA, Spain — Protesters used water pistols against unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona and on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday as demonstrators marched to demand a rethink of an economic model they believe is fueling a housing crunch and erasing the character of their hometowns. State …

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Lisa M. Jarvis |Carolyn Silverman

The American public needs this research. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Trump administration’s waves of massive cuts to funding at the National Institutes of Health are framed as a recasting of research priorities and a way to save taxpayer money. Another way to frame it is an exercise in massive waste.  In terminating nearly 750 NIH grants over the past two months, the government dumped years of investment down the drain.

Mar 18, 2025 | bloomberg.com | Dave Lee |Carolyn Silverman

The billionaire leaders of social media giants have long been under pressure to quell the spread of mis- and disinformation. No system to date, from human fact-checkers to automation, has satisfied critics on the left or the right. One novel approach winning plaudits recently has been Community Notes.