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Department of Cerberus

2

The Menopause Gold Rush Is Leaving Women Behind

3

How Eli Lilly Got Huge by Making Us Thin

4

Cyberbullying Group 764 Torments Teenagers as Blood Sport

5

Caveat Injector

6

How a Tiny British Island Fell Into an International Gambling Scandal

7

When an ICE Camp Comes to Town

8

The Broken Backbone of America’s Healthcare System

9

How Funding Cuts Left the World Vulnerable to Ebola

10

What Trump Delivered for Amazon

11

Been Sanctioned by the US Government? There’s a Guy for That

12

Andy Jassy’s Plan to Launch Amazon Into The AI Age

13

The $10 Billion Startup Training AI to Replace the White-Collar Workforce

14

‘God, It’s Terrifying’: How the Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines

15

How a Die-Hard Libertarian Is Negotiating Lower Health-Care Costs

16

James Patterson’s Authorship Operation Welcomes Viola Davis and MrBeast

17

Introducing: Bloomberg This Weekend

18

The Georgia Pastor Accused of Defrauding the VA of Nearly $24 Million

19

The Making of MAHA’s Biohacking King

20

Drug Cartels Are Embracing Crypto and Freelance Money Launderers. Cops Can’t Keep Up

21

UPS’s Missteps Have Put the Company on a Shaky Path Forward

22

Carvana’s Red-Hot Growth Runs on a Cycle of Borrowed Money

23

The Startup Making Human Embryos With AI-Assisted Robots

24

Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon

25

India’s Digital Dream, Hacked

26

Can Target Be Cool Again, and Would That Be Enough?

27

The Gizmo Empire

28

Kid Rock, MAGA Man

29

The Chatbot Delusions

30

Finish Him, Brother

31

Allow Zohran Mamdani to Reintroduce Himself

32

Lucrative ICE Detention Centers Bring Money—and Anger— to an Alaska Native Community

33

How Generations of Selective Breeding Created Miserable Chickens

34

A Shipwreck Killed 41 Crew and 5,900 Cattle. The Brutal Business Behind It Goes On

35

Confessions of a Professional Insomniac

36

Jollibee Is on a Quest to Conquer American Palates

37

Can the UN Be Saved? Lessons From a Cold War Diplomat

38

The Battle Over the Legacy of Soviet Food

39

What Reliving the 1929 Crash Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market

40

The AI Pioneer Who Wants to Replace Teachers With Algorithms

41

Paramount’s New Top Gun

42

Enron: The Satire

43

Can MrBeast Grow Up?

44

India Finds Out How Hard It Is to Build a Finance Hub From Scratch

45

At World Cup 2026, the US Risks a Diplomatic Own Goal

46

The Mushroom Murders Saga Is Far From Over

47

Becoming Ms. Rachel

48

How a Global Car Company Stalled Out

49

Why Does Your Dish Soap Smell Different?

50

Arundhati Roy Confronts Her Fiercest Subject

51

The Return of the Rich American Smuggler

52

The Fight Over Delhi's Street Dogs Is Dividing India

53

How Alcaraz and Sinner Skipped the Line in Men’s Tennis

54

The Cracks in America's Rule of Law Are Getting Deeper

55

The Outcasts of the Yacht Club Are Changing Sailing’s Image

56

National Parks Are America’s Final EV Frontier

57

Swimming Joins the After-Work Routine at London’s Canary Wharf

58

When the Dead Are Missing, These Dogs Know Where to Look

59

The United States Is Southern Now

60

The US is Run By Lawyers, and China by Engineers

61

Bessent on Tariffs, Deficits and Embracing Trump’s Economic Plan

62

So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who’s Going to Restore it?

63

Teach Your Kids Poker the Easy Way

64

The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan's Nuclear Plans

65

In Defense of Cheating at Golf

66

What Happens When AI Schemes Against Us

67

Gwyneth Paltrow Has Always Been Selling What Money Can't Buy

68

Have We Finally Reached Peak Doodle?

69

Luke Farritor Goes to Washington

70

Japan’s Newest Theme Park Is on the Front Line of the US-China Rivalry

71

India Is Turning to 'Financial Astrology' for Stock Tips

72

She Gave Away Her Inheritance. Now What?

73

Inside America’s North Korean Workforce

74

Someday We’ll All Love Ocean Vuong

75

Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?

76

What Scientists Learned Scanning The Bodies of 100,000 Brits

77

Hims Won't Let Go of Its Wonder Drug

78

Why the US's New Shipbuilding Strategy Is Unlikely to Work

79

My Year of Aging Dangerously

80

How American Universities Became So Vulnerable to Government Threats

81

Pistachios Are Everywhere Right Now, Not Just in Dubai Chocolate

82

What Fine Dining Looks Like With Absolutely No Plastic

83

To Restore America, Start With Honor

84

The 'Enhanced Games' Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition

85

Apple Test-Drives Big-Screen Movie Strategy With F1

86

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI

87

Silicon Valley's 'Tiny Team' Era is Here

88

China’s Spiritual Economy Is Booming as Gen Z Turns to Tarot

89

Japan Is Cracking Down on Host Clubs Where Men Flirt for Money

90

The Quest to Fix the Gap

91

Professional Athletes Can’t Get Enough of Chess.com

92

The Stress of Wall Street Is Sending Men to Pelvic Floor Therapy

93

The Next Reality TV President?

94

A Unesco-Protected Site in Mali Is Becoming a Burden for Locals

95

American Mid

96

Stop Taking Safe Vacations and Start Really Exploring

97

In Defense of Monograms

98

The G-7 Just Isn't What It Used to Be

99

Chasing Big Money With the Health-Care Hustlers of South Florida

100

Bill Ackman Is Tweeting Through It

101

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant

102

YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It’s Coming for the Sitcom

103

Wall Street’s Favorite Game Has a Long and Uncomfortable History

104

India Is Gripped by a Spiritual Tourism Boom as Faith Becomes Fashionable

105

Greg Nobile Is Big on Broadway. Now He Wants to Go Small

106

Barry Diller Credits His Success to His Closeted Homosexuality

107

Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?

108

Polo Clubs Are Booming in the Hamptons of South America

109

The Price of Oil is Both Personal and Political

110

Once a Symbol of Apartheid, Rugby Is Now Helping Unite South Africa

111

Can Anthropic Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul?

112

Nadella’s Paradox: The Microsoft CEO on His AI Balancing Act

113

AI’s Most Promising Alien Hunters

114

Is China Winning?

115

The Cartoon Network’s Last Gasp

116

‘No Marriage, No Children’ Is China’s Ticking Timebomb

117

How One Little Barge Explains the History of Globalization

118

Trump Is Triggering a Brain Drain That Could Cost the US for Years

119

Lady Liberty

120

America’s Greatest Living Composer Has a Bone to Pick

121

Breaking Up With Multi-Level Marketing Is Harder Than It Sounds

122

A Deadly Parasite’s Return Threatens US Ranchers Too Young to Remember It

123

How to Improve the Process of Picking a Pope

124

A ‘Miracle’ HIV Drug May Not Reach the Women Who Need It Most

125

Norway Is on a 100-Day Mission to Test Military Limits in the Arctic

126

The Evolution of the Alpha Male Aesthetic

127

A New Holy Trinity of Watch Brands for the Non-Billionaire Class

128

Why Don't More Fathers Take Paternity Leave?

129

Scott Bessent’s Tightrope Walk

130

Off-Key

131

Live Wire

132

Caviar Has Become the Costco Rotisserie Chicken of Fine Dining

133

Why AI Is Better than Doctors at the Most Human Part of Medicine

134

What Kind of Business is X Now?

135

Loyalty Points Aren’t Worth What They Used to Be

136

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Likes Talking About Chips, But Not AI

137

A Danish Supermarket Hits Back at Trump's Tariffs

138

Notes from Underground: A New Memoir Settles Scores in the Restaurant Industry

139

Once an Economy Switches from Rules to Deals, It’s Hard to Switch Back

140

How Greenland’s Sled Dogs Entered a Diplomatic Row

141

Can LA Build Back Better?

142

The Billionaire's Town

143

The Severance Season Finale Is a Culmination of Workplace Angst

144

The Challenge of the Satire-Proof Presidency

145

What Beer Drinkers Can Tell Us About China's Economic Woes

146

Is This the End of Google Search?

147

A Convenient Place to Launder Money

148

Can America Make Drones

149

Trump Tariffs Aren't Scaring Off Car Collectors

150

The 21st Century Math of Renting vs. Buying a Home

151

Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

152

How America Got Hooked on H Mart

153

What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones

154

South Africa's Post-Apartheid Justice is Under New Scrutiny

155

To Save the Planet, We Need to Sacrifice Some of It

156

An All-American Finance Empire Drew Billions—and a Regulator’s Attention

157

Heat Pump Enthusiasts Invite Strangers to Tour Their Homes

158

How Do You Write a Constitution in Today’s Conditions?

159

What the Blue State Covid Fighters Got Wrong

160

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

161

How the UAE Became the Global Center of Cricket

162

Japan’s Hottest Export Is About to Be Its Cool

163

Every Day  Low Problems at Walmart

164

Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings

165

How Lorne Michaels Keeps SNL Humming

166

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

167

Trump Will Force the Supreme Court to Face Its Biggest Fear

168

Grand Theft Auto Real Life

169

How Much Should Authors Get Paid to License Books to AI?

170

Guantanamo Bay Is the Poisonous Fruit That Tempts All Presidents

171

Bill Gates’s ‘Source Code' Is a Thank You Letter to Lax Parenting

172

The Last of Us Mushrooms, Prized as Sex Aids and More, Have Created a Multibillion-Dollar Market

173

The Cosmic Con

174

LA Needs More Than a Comeback — It Has to Move Forward

175

Why The China Bubble Still Hasn’t Popped

176

To Combat Shoplifters, Retailers Are Hiring Them to Steal

177

The Case for Keeping Obsolete Apps Around on Your Phone

178

Masayoshi Son’s Next Bet May Finally Secure His Legacy

179

Survivors of Bhopal’s Gas Leak Await a Cleanup, 40 Years Later

180

Can an EV Ever Really Be a Muscle Car?

181

Why Running Is One of India’s Fastest-Growing Sports

182

The LA Wildfires Should Change the Way We Live

183

There's a Coach For That

184

It’s On

185

How ‘Disaster Girls’ Are Cashing in on the Digital Economy

186

Bollywood’s Divorced Power Couple on Their Movie About Marriage

187

Pour One Out for Alcohol

188

How Journalism Will Adapt in the Age of AI

189

Fighting for a Share of a $1 Trillion Market in Borneo

190

Chick-fil-A's Robots Help Cut 10,000 Hours of Work

191

The Business of History Is Booming

192

Can Gucci Find Its Cool Again?

193

Japanese Companies Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Attract Young Workers

194

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

195

Roblox’s Pedophile Problem

196

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

197

In ‘The Brutalist,’ the Suffering Is the Point

198

Visiting Seoul's Royal Palaces? Don't Forget Your Hanbok

199

China’s Housing Rescue Falls Short in City That Signaled the Crisis

200

The ROI Rules of AI: Procuring Success (Sponsored Content)

201

Chili Peppers Are Losing Their Heat as the World Gets Warmer

202

Citizenship Looks More Like a Privilege Than a Right

203

Syrian Refugees Are Conflicted About Returning Home

204

The Egg

205

Before You Write a Wall Street Memoir, Listen to This

206

When Ozempic Insurance Coverage Runs Out

207

The Problem with the Portfolio Career

208

Pushed to Play

209

The Quest to Turn Human Waste Into Medicine

210

Why Are Women Less Likely to Use AI?

211

The Box-Office Flop Is Becoming a Thing of the Past

212

Andre Agassi Loves Pickleball and Is Betting Asia Will Too

213

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

214

What I Learned About Luxury at the Rolls-Royce School For Chauffeurs

215

A New World Order Is Here And It Looks A Lot Like Mercantilism

216

Diehard Gamers Are Fueling Demand for Esports Hotels in China

217

The Pandemic Hunters

218

How AI Could Break the Career Ladder

219

India's Ban on 'The Satanic Verses' Gets a Rushdie-esque Twist

220

Air Jaylen

221

FedEx Turns the Page

222

Bury Your Troubles

223

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

224

Donald Trump’s Billion-Dollar Windfall After Election Is Just the Start

225

At Bars and Comedy Clubs, Taiwan Processes a Trump Victory

226

Listen Now: US Election Coverage on Bloomberg Podcasts

227

Yes, Running Marathons Can Make You a Better Person

228

The Epicenter of China's Gold Craze Is a Former Fishing Village

229

The Peculiarly American Roots of Trumpism

230

The Tartarian Candidate

231

How to Think About the Price of Food

232

Could Political Betting Swing the US Election?

233

Japan’s Train Enthusiasts Are Snapping Up Shares in a Beloved Metro

234

How Market Forces Came For the Dinosaurs

235

China’s ‘Professional Children’ Want to Buy Less and Experience More

236

The UK Is Losing the Race Against Devastating Floods

237

The Battle for EV Dominance

238

Long Shot

239

Kids in a Candy Store

240

OpenAI v. Open AI

241

Who's Afraid of Lina Khan?

242

The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

243

Understanding Kamala Harris

244

Nike Drops the Ball

245

And You Thought the DMV Was Rough

246

The Practical Economics of Reaching Net Zero

247

Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts

248

Dodge City

249

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

250

Parks and Degradation

251

Instant Reaction: Meta Reports Earnings

252

Instant Reaction: Jay Powell Talks Fed Policy

253

Roblox’s Predator Problem

254

The Businessweek Trump Interview

255

The Yass Man

256

The House of Arnault

257

The Dirty, Deadly Forges of Sulawesi

258

Fixing Pixar

259

Genohype

260

Tesla's Nordic Rebellion

261

Sextortion

262

How Matzo Is Made

263

Bluey, Take a Bow

264

An Empire Divided

265

The Vincuñas and the $9,000 Sweater

266

Everywhere All at Once

267

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?

268

That New Contract Smell

269

Pausing Menopause

270

The Legal Netherworld of Deepfakes

271

Master of the Deep

272

Elon Musk's Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery

273

Foxconn's EV Drive

274

The Swiss Solution

275

How to Build the Next BTS

276

Continental Rift

277

Law Enforcement’s Most Troubling Shortcut Is Google

278

Is Working Here the Worst Retail Job in America?

279

Bankman, Fried & Son

280

Another Shot

281

A Fortune in Crypto, Stolen With a Phone

282

The Maddening Mystery of a Murdered Billionaire

283

Actors and Writers Think They've Landed in a Terminator Reboot

284

How Many Points Is a Shot of Wegovy?

285

Jacked

286

How a Huawei Mole Got Caught Trying to Swing a $200 Million 5G Contract

287

America’s Long, Tortured Journey to Build EV Batteries

288

Tripped Up

289

City of Peace, City of War

290

The Coke Can Liner Caper

291

Weight Loss Drugs Have a Cost Problem

292

Welcome to Chappelleville

293

The Gambler Who Beat Roulette

294

Breaking the Curse

295

What Happens When Sexting Chatbots Dump Their Human Lovers

296

Tick Tock, TikTok

297

Keepers of the Flame

298

FBI Documents Show Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian Grilled for 1MDB Secrets

299

The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI

300

The Billionaire Bomb Scare

301

The Richest Fanboy in Wrestling

302

American Coyote

303

Can Ron DeSantis Ride ‘Woke’ to the White House?

304

Cocaine Boats

305

Misfits Goes Mainstream

306

The Tragedies of TikTok

307

The Last Petrostate

308

The Very Last of Lehman Brothers

309

Steamed

310

Gentlemen, Start Your Revenue Streams!

311

Is IVF Next?

312

A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant

313

What Could Go Wrong?

314

Traffic Jam at 400 Feet

315

"Don't Forget an Exit Plan"

316

"It's a Massive Crime, Probably the Largest Art theft in History"

317

"I Don't Really Care Much About Money"

318

The Amazon Election

319

The Spy's Diary

320

Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

321

The Crypto Story, Part 2

322

The Crypto Story, Part 1

323

The Crypto Story, Part 3

324

The Crypto Story, Part 4

325

Have You Plugged In a Ford Lately?

326

Chris Paul's Playbook

327

The Intellectual Father of Baby Bonds

328

Colonized From Within

329

The Abortion Pill's Exile in Obscurity

330

Big Hot Sauce Wants More Hot Sauce

331

Biden's Year 2 Test

332

The Fall of a Russian Cyberstar

333

The Most Broken Business in America

334

Wall Street's Make or Break Trade

335

Now Crypto Is Barking at Me

336

UPS Is Winning the Delivery Wars

337

Cheese Without Cows

338

Can 8.8 Million DNA Spit Tests Add Up to a Cancer Breakthrough, or Just a Privacy Nightmare?

339

How Far Will Workers Go?

340

The Hidden Ways the Ultrarich Pass Wealth to Their Heirs Tax-Free

341

Boomtown in the Evacuation Zone

342

Wall Street’s Toughest Turnaround

343

How to Persuade White Lawmakers to Protect Black Hairstyles

344

De-radicalizing the Extremists

345

Define 'Stable'

346

"Most Americans today believe the stock market is rigged. And they're right"

347

Too Big. May Still Fail

348

The Dinosaur Cowboy's Long Ride

349

A Man and His Wall

350

The Xbox Cheat

351

The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master

352

Will a Strongman Relent?

353

Six Days in Suez

354

How Airbnb Makes Nightmares Disappear

355

Welcome to the Trump Coast

356

The Gospel of Cathie Wood

357

In Recognition of Global Domination

358

Hype Man

359

Bloomberg Businessweek's Pandemic Vacation

360

Perfect Time to Start an Airline!

361

How Robinhood Made Trading Easy—and Maybe Even Too Hard to Resist

362

Harassment Allegations and Fear Haunt the European Investment Bank

363

Under New Management

364

The Man Who Keeps the Far Right Online

365

Bill Hwang Built a Fortune, Then Lost It in Two Days

366

Nice Guys Finish Last

367

Vaccine Passports—the New Golden Ticket

368

How About a Covid Pill?

369

Swab Story

370

Tax Code So White

371

The $500 Billion Bias Problem

372

Vaccine Capitalism

373

Money, It's Gotta Be the Shoes

374

At 93, She Waged War on JPMorgan—and Her Own Grandsons

375

Tim Cook’s $2.3 Trillion Fortress

376

A Five-Point Plan to Stop the Next Pandemic

377

Never Rest

378

How I Helped My Dad Die

379

Help Is on the Way

380

A Match Made in China

381

The Cruise Ship Suicides

382

Business at Its Best

383

Go Burbward, Young Knowledge Worker

384

How to Heal a Building

385

The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19

386

Lysol Is Working on It

387

Who's a Good Business Model? It's you! Yes it is! You're SUCH a good business model! Yes you are!

388

There in 15

389

Trumpism Isn't Going Away

390

Should Insurers Have to Compensate Businesses for Coronavirus Lockdowns?

391

Here. It. Comes.

392

An Audience of One

393

What Would Emily Oster Do?

394

We Can Still Pass This Test

395

His Numbers Don't Lie

396

Cruise Ship Zero

397

How the Republicans Are Losing Suburbia

398

Narcotics Crisis: Made in Mexico, With U.S. Ingredients

399

Vaccine Nationalism

400

The Real Vaccine Billionaires of Maharashtra

401

The Cola Contest With 600,000 Winners

402

Google Dominates Search Ads More Than Ever, Is Working Through That

403

The Coming Baby Deficit

404

Hands of a God

405

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

406

The Front-Runner

407

The Case of the Empty Frames

408

Troubles in Quinn Country

409

Worst-Case Scenario

410

The Case for Quotas

411

The Pariah Ship

412

Stop Killing Black Men

413

Fallout

414

Please Rise for the King of Germany

415

Where Do We Go From Here?

416

All Eyes on Gilead

417

Instacart Wasn't Ready to Be Essential

418

North Korea's Man in Spain

419

The Humbling of Exxon

420

Wuhan Reopens

421

Just Try and Social Distance This

422

The Accidental Social Network

423

Meet the Resistance

424

How Do You Make More Masks Yesterday?

425

Who Really Owns a John Deere?

426

Milk Money

427

From Microcredit to Major Debt

428

When Trump Doesn't Love You Back

429

We Have Your Files—Send Bitcoin, or Else...

430

Elon Vs. the Shorts

431

Nobody Makes Money Like Leon Black

432

The Catholic Church's Bankruptcy Defense

433

Vanillanomics

434

The Hardest Fall

435

Yes. They're Listening

436

Google's Defense Dilemma

437

Riches From Rags

438

Where Streams Come True

439

A Fix for the U.S. Health-Care Crisis: Four Walls and a Roof

440

The Walking City

441

Paying With Plastic

442

Move Fast and Vape Things

443

You Gotta Smash a Few Cars to Make an Autonomous Vehicle

444

'You Are Signing Up to Build Weapons'

445

Pat O'Gold

446

Populism in the Land of Genghis Khan

447

I'm Lovin' I.T.

448

Mary Barra Risks It All

449

What Was Bayer Thinking?

450

Battle of the Bubbles

451

Where's the Beef?

452

Protesting Like It's 2047

453

How to Hide From Silicon Valley

454

All Over But the Streaming

455

Elizabeth Warren Is Done Playing It Safe

456

The Zillion-Dollar Convenience Store

457

The Great Model Train Robbery

458

King of the Snitches

459

Hooked

460

Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Is Your Friendly Canadian Weed Guy

461

What Bird Brains Can Teach Self-Driving Cars, Siri’s Cousins, and the Chip Elon Wants to Put in Your Skull

462

The New Red Scare

463

Towing Icebergs From Antarctica to South Africa

464

We Need a New Vision of Technological Progress. We've Got Options

465

Miracle Cures in Our Genes

466

The Wealth Detective

467

The Rebel Economists of Beijing

468

They're Coming for Your Eyeballs

469

The Nadellaissance

470

The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

471

Climate-Fried Steak

472

'The Ear Is the New Wrist'

473

The Legend of Jacinto's Gold

474

Unicorn Season

475

The People’s Degustation Army