Jessica Karl

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jessica Karl

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a paper trail of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. In the small Connecticut town where I grew up, we used to laugh about how many banks we had. Could we possibly need all those safe-deposit boxes? But there were only three gas stations. And when one of those gas stations closed, what replaced it? A bank, of course!

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jessica Karl

And just like that, the S&P 500 gained back 71% of what it lost since President Trump’s “Liberation Day.”This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a mythical salamander of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. Oh, to be Matt Levine: He sent his newsletter at 1:17 p.m. ET — one minute prior to President Donald Trump’s 90-day tariff pause announcement at 1:18 p.m. ET. Absolutely brutal timing! But c’est la vie, a trade war will do that.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jessica Karl

7 hours agoAsked about the spat, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue." WASHINGTON — Elon Musk on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, as a "moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" in a spat …

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jessica Karl

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a sinkhole of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. Sometimes it takes multiple mental leaps to understand Gen Z’s latest slang. Like, who would know that “she just turned 19 in Poland” means “she is serving” without the context that in Poland, that’s the age you take a test to see if you’re fit to serve in the military? Nobody! Nobody at all.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jessica Karl

Not everyone is amused by Trump’s dubious chart of percentages on a poster board. This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a wall of pain of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. I really wish I had recorded my desk mate John Authers while he watched President Donald Trump’s “Make America Wealthy Again” speech in the Rose Garden yesterday. His reaction was a crescendo of grunts, huffs, mumbles, exasperated sighs and eventual yells — “Oh no.