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Where Does Spirit Airlines Go When It Dies?

2

The Seniors Against Senior Housing

3

The Diamond Industry’s Old Guard Wants You to Buy ‘Natural’

4

Studio Ghibli Doesn’t Really Care What’s Coming Next

5

China’s New Cultural Export to US? 90 Second Microdramas

6

The Enchanted, Steamy, Booming Romantasy Business

7

The Next Spotify—Or an AI Music Slop Machine?

8

Candy Crush's Sweet Success

9

India’s Long-Shot Attempt to Become an iPhone Manufacturing Powerhouse Is Paying Off.

10

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

11

The Company That Wanted to Make Exactly 10,011 Pairs of Jeans

12

What Florida’s Ultra-Right Campaign Means for the Future of MAGA

13

Curing Concrete

14

Department of Cerberus

15

The Menopause Gold Rush Is Leaving Women Behind

16

How Eli Lilly Got Huge by Making Us Thin

17

Cyberbullying Group 764 Torments Teenagers as Blood Sport

18

Caveat Injector

19

How a Tiny British Island Fell Into an International Gambling Scandal

20

When an ICE Camp Comes to Town

21

The Broken Backbone of America’s Healthcare System

22

How Funding Cuts Left the World Vulnerable to Ebola

23

What Trump Delivered for Amazon

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

James Patterson’s Authorship Operation Welcomes Viola Davis and MrBeast

30

Introducing: Bloomberg This Weekend

31

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

32

The Making of MAHA’s Biohacking King

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

The Startup Making Human Embryos With AI-Assisted Robots

37

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

38

India’s Digital Dream, Hacked

39

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

40

The Gizmo Empire

41

Kid Rock, MAGA Man

42

The Chatbot Delusions

43

Finish Him, Brother

44

Allow Zohran Mamdani to Reintroduce Himself

45

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

46

How Generations of Selective Breeding Created Miserable Chickens

47

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

48

Confessions of a Professional Insomniac

49

Jollibee Is on a Quest to Conquer American Palates

50

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

51

The Battle Over the Legacy of Soviet Food

52

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

53

The AI Pioneer Who Wants to Replace Teachers With Algorithms

54

Paramount’s New Top Gun

55

Enron: The Satire

56

Can MrBeast Grow Up?

57

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

58

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

59

The Mushroom Murders Saga Is Far From Over

60

Becoming Ms. Rachel

61

How a Global Car Company Stalled Out

62

Why Does Your Dish Soap Smell Different?

63

Arundhati Roy Confronts Her Fiercest Subject

64

The Return of the Rich American Smuggler

65

The Fight Over Delhi's Street Dogs Is Dividing India

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

National Parks Are America’s Final EV Frontier

70

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

71

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

72

The United States Is Southern Now

73

The US is Run By Lawyers, and China by Engineers

74

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

75

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

76

Teach Your Kids Poker the Easy Way

77

The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan's Nuclear Plans

78

In Defense of Cheating at Golf

79

What Happens When AI Schemes Against Us

80

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

81

Have We Finally Reached Peak Doodle?

82

Luke Farritor Goes to Washington

83

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

84

India Is Turning to 'Financial Astrology' for Stock Tips

85

She Gave Away Her Inheritance. Now What?

86

Inside America’s North Korean Workforce

87

Someday We’ll All Love Ocean Vuong

88

Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?

89

What Scientists Learned Scanning The Bodies of 100,000 Brits

90

Hims Won't Let Go of Its Wonder Drug

91

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

92

My Year of Aging Dangerously

93

How American Universities Became So Vulnerable to Government Threats

94

Pistachios Are Everywhere Right Now, Not Just in Dubai Chocolate

95

What Fine Dining Looks Like With Absolutely No Plastic

96

To Restore America, Start With Honor

97

The 'Enhanced Games' Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition

98

Apple Test-Drives Big-Screen Movie Strategy With F1

99

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI

100

Silicon Valley's 'Tiny Team' Era is Here

101

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

102

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

103

The Quest to Fix the Gap

104

Professional Athletes Can’t Get Enough of Chess.com

105

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

106

The Next Reality TV President?

107

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

108

American Mid

109

Stop Taking Safe Vacations and Start Really Exploring

110

In Defense of Monograms

111

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

112

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

113

Bill Ackman Is Tweeting Through It

114

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

Barry Diller Credits His Success to His Closeted Homosexuality

120

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

121

Polo Clubs Are Booming in the Hamptons of South America

122

The Price of Oil is Both Personal and Political

123

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

124

Can Anthropic Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul?

125

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

126

AI’s Most Promising Alien Hunters

127

Is China Winning?

128

The Cartoon Network’s Last Gasp

129

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

130

How One Little Barge Explains the History of Globalization

131

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

132

Lady Liberty

133

America’s Greatest Living Composer Has a Bone to Pick

134

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

135

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

136

How to Improve the Process of Picking a Pope

137

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

138

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

139

The Evolution of the Alpha Male Aesthetic

140

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

141

Why Don't More Fathers Take Paternity Leave?

142

Scott Bessent’s Tightrope Walk

143

Off-Key

144

Live Wire

145

Caviar Has Become the Costco Rotisserie Chicken of Fine Dining

146

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

147

What Kind of Business is X Now?

148

Loyalty Points Aren’t Worth What They Used to Be

149

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

150

A Danish Supermarket Hits Back at Trump's Tariffs

151

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

152

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

153

How Greenland’s Sled Dogs Entered a Diplomatic Row

154

Can LA Build Back Better?

155

The Billionaire's Town

156

The Severance Season Finale Is a Culmination of Workplace Angst

157

The Challenge of the Satire-Proof Presidency

158

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

159

Is This the End of Google Search?

160

A Convenient Place to Launder Money

161

Can America Make Drones

162

Trump Tariffs Aren't Scaring Off Car Collectors

163

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

164

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

165

How America Got Hooked on H Mart

166

What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

Heat Pump Enthusiasts Invite Strangers to Tour Their Homes

171

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

172

What the Blue State Covid Fighters Got Wrong

173

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

174

How the UAE Became the Global Center of Cricket

175

Japan’s Hottest Export Is About to Be Its Cool

176

Every Day  Low Problems at Walmart

177

Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings

178

How Lorne Michaels Keeps SNL Humming

179

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

180

Trump Will Force the Supreme Court to Face Its Biggest Fear

181

Grand Theft Auto Real Life

182

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

183

Guantanamo Bay Is the Poisonous Fruit That Tempts All Presidents

184

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

185

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

186

The Cosmic Con

187

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

188

Why The China Bubble Still Hasn’t Popped

189

To Combat Shoplifters, Retailers Are Hiring Them to Steal

190

The Case for Keeping Obsolete Apps Around on Your Phone

191

Masayoshi Son’s Next Bet May Finally Secure His Legacy

192

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

193

Can an EV Ever Really Be a Muscle Car?

194

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

195

The LA Wildfires Should Change the Way We Live

196

There's a Coach For That

197

It’s On

198

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

199

Bollywood’s Divorced Power Couple on Their Movie About Marriage

200

Pour One Out for Alcohol

201

How Journalism Will Adapt in the Age of AI

202

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

203

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

204

The Business of History Is Booming

205

Can Gucci Find Its Cool Again?

206

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

207

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

208

Roblox’s Pedophile Problem

209

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

210

In ‘The Brutalist,’ the Suffering Is the Point

211

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

212

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

213

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

214

Chili Peppers Are Losing Their Heat as the World Gets Warmer

215

Citizenship Looks More Like a Privilege Than a Right

216

Syrian Refugees Are Conflicted About Returning Home

217

The Egg

218

Before You Write a Wall Street Memoir, Listen to This

219

When Ozempic Insurance Coverage Runs Out

220

The Problem with the Portfolio Career

221

Pushed to Play

222

The Quest to Turn Human Waste Into Medicine

223

Why Are Women Less Likely to Use AI?

224

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

225

Andre Agassi Loves Pickleball and Is Betting Asia Will Too

226

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

227

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

228

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

229

Diehard Gamers Are Fueling Demand for Esports Hotels in China

230

The Pandemic Hunters

231

How AI Could Break the Career Ladder

232

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

233

Air Jaylen

234

FedEx Turns the Page

235

Bury Your Troubles

236

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

237

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

238

At Bars and Comedy Clubs, Taiwan Processes a Trump Victory

239

Listen Now: US Election Coverage on Bloomberg Podcasts

240

Yes, Running Marathons Can Make You a Better Person

241

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

242

The Peculiarly American Roots of Trumpism

243

The Tartarian Candidate

244

How to Think About the Price of Food

245

Could Political Betting Swing the US Election?

246

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

247

How Market Forces Came For the Dinosaurs

248

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

249

The UK Is Losing the Race Against Devastating Floods

250

The Battle for EV Dominance

251

Long Shot

252

Kids in a Candy Store

253

OpenAI v. Open AI

254

Who's Afraid of Lina Khan?

255

The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

256

Understanding Kamala Harris

257

Nike Drops the Ball

258

And You Thought the DMV Was Rough

259

The Practical Economics of Reaching Net Zero

260

Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts

261

Dodge City

262

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

263

Parks and Degradation

264

Instant Reaction: Meta Reports Earnings

265

Instant Reaction: Jay Powell Talks Fed Policy

266

Roblox’s Predator Problem

267

The Businessweek Trump Interview

268

The Yass Man

269

The House of Arnault

270

The Dirty, Deadly Forges of Sulawesi

271

Fixing Pixar

272

Genohype

273

Tesla's Nordic Rebellion

274

Sextortion

275

How Matzo Is Made

276

Bluey, Take a Bow

277

An Empire Divided

278

The Vincuñas and the $9,000 Sweater

279

Everywhere All at Once

280

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?

281

That New Contract Smell

282

Pausing Menopause

283

The Legal Netherworld of Deepfakes

284

Master of the Deep

285

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

286

Foxconn's EV Drive

287

The Swiss Solution

288

How to Build the Next BTS

289

Continental Rift

290

Law Enforcement’s Most Troubling Shortcut Is Google

291

Is Working Here the Worst Retail Job in America?

292

Bankman, Fried & Son

293

Another Shot

294

A Fortune in Crypto, Stolen With a Phone

295

The Maddening Mystery of a Murdered Billionaire

296

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

297

How Many Points Is a Shot of Wegovy?

298

Jacked

299

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

300

America’s Long, Tortured Journey to Build EV Batteries

301

Tripped Up

302

City of Peace, City of War

303

The Coke Can Liner Caper

304

Weight Loss Drugs Have a Cost Problem

305

Welcome to Chappelleville

306

The Gambler Who Beat Roulette

307

Breaking the Curse

308

What Happens When Sexting Chatbots Dump Their Human Lovers

309

Tick Tock, TikTok

310

Keepers of the Flame

311

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

312

The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI

313

The Billionaire Bomb Scare

314

The Richest Fanboy in Wrestling

315

American Coyote

316

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

317

Cocaine Boats

318

Misfits Goes Mainstream

319

The Tragedies of TikTok

320

The Last Petrostate

321

The Very Last of Lehman Brothers

322

Steamed

323

Gentlemen, Start Your Revenue Streams!

324

Is IVF Next?

325

A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant

326

What Could Go Wrong?

327

Traffic Jam at 400 Feet

328

"Don't Forget an Exit Plan"

329

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

330

"I Don't Really Care Much About Money"

331

The Amazon Election

332

The Spy's Diary

333

Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

334

The Crypto Story, Part 2

335

The Crypto Story, Part 1

336

The Crypto Story, Part 3

337

The Crypto Story, Part 4

338

Have You Plugged In a Ford Lately?

339

Chris Paul's Playbook

340

The Intellectual Father of Baby Bonds

341

Colonized From Within

342

The Abortion Pill's Exile in Obscurity

343

Big Hot Sauce Wants More Hot Sauce

344

Biden's Year 2 Test

345

The Fall of a Russian Cyberstar

346

The Most Broken Business in America

347

Wall Street's Make or Break Trade

348

Now Crypto Is Barking at Me

349

UPS Is Winning the Delivery Wars

350

Cheese Without Cows

351

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

352

How Far Will Workers Go?

353

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

354

Boomtown in the Evacuation Zone

355

Wall Street’s Toughest Turnaround

356

How to Persuade White Lawmakers to Protect Black Hairstyles

357

De-radicalizing the Extremists

358

Define 'Stable'

359

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

360

Too Big. May Still Fail

361

The Dinosaur Cowboy's Long Ride

362

A Man and His Wall

363

The Xbox Cheat

364

The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master

365

Will a Strongman Relent?

366

Six Days in Suez

367

How Airbnb Makes Nightmares Disappear

368

Welcome to the Trump Coast

369

The Gospel of Cathie Wood

370

In Recognition of Global Domination

371

Hype Man

372

Bloomberg Businessweek's Pandemic Vacation

373

Perfect Time to Start an Airline!

374

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

375

Harassment Allegations and Fear Haunt the European Investment Bank

376

Under New Management

377

The Man Who Keeps the Far Right Online

378

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

379

Nice Guys Finish Last

380

Vaccine Passports—the New Golden Ticket

381

How About a Covid Pill?

382

Swab Story

383

Tax Code So White

384

The $500 Billion Bias Problem

385

Vaccine Capitalism

386

Money, It's Gotta Be the Shoes

387

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

388

Tim Cook’s $2.3 Trillion Fortress

389

A Five-Point Plan to Stop the Next Pandemic

390

Never Rest

391

How I Helped My Dad Die

392

Help Is on the Way

393

A Match Made in China

394

The Cruise Ship Suicides

395

Business at Its Best

396

Go Burbward, Young Knowledge Worker

397

How to Heal a Building

398

The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19

399

Lysol Is Working on It

400

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

401

There in 15

402

Trumpism Isn't Going Away

403

Should Insurers Have to Compensate Businesses for Coronavirus Lockdowns?

404

Here. It. Comes.

405

An Audience of One

406

What Would Emily Oster Do?

407

We Can Still Pass This Test

408

His Numbers Don't Lie

409

Cruise Ship Zero

410

How the Republicans Are Losing Suburbia

411

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

412

Vaccine Nationalism

413

The Real Vaccine Billionaires of Maharashtra

414

The Cola Contest With 600,000 Winners

415

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

416

The Coming Baby Deficit

417

Hands of a God

418

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

419

The Front-Runner

420

The Case of the Empty Frames

421

Troubles in Quinn Country

422

Worst-Case Scenario

423

The Case for Quotas

424

The Pariah Ship

425

Stop Killing Black Men

426

Fallout

427

Please Rise for the King of Germany

428

Where Do We Go From Here?

429

All Eyes on Gilead

430

Instacart Wasn't Ready to Be Essential

431

North Korea's Man in Spain

432

The Humbling of Exxon

433

Wuhan Reopens

434

Just Try and Social Distance This

435

The Accidental Social Network

436

Meet the Resistance

437

How Do You Make More Masks Yesterday?

438

Who Really Owns a John Deere?

439

Milk Money

440

From Microcredit to Major Debt

441

When Trump Doesn't Love You Back

442

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

443

Elon Vs. the Shorts

444

Nobody Makes Money Like Leon Black

445

The Catholic Church's Bankruptcy Defense

446

Vanillanomics

447

The Hardest Fall

448

Yes. They're Listening

449

Google's Defense Dilemma

450

Riches From Rags

451

Where Streams Come True

452

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

453

The Walking City

454

Paying With Plastic

455

Move Fast and Vape Things

456

You Gotta Smash a Few Cars to Make an Autonomous Vehicle

457

'You Are Signing Up to Build Weapons'

458

Pat O'Gold

459

Populism in the Land of Genghis Khan

460

I'm Lovin' I.T.

461

Mary Barra Risks It All

462

What Was Bayer Thinking?

463

Battle of the Bubbles

464

Where's the Beef?

465

Protesting Like It's 2047

466

How to Hide From Silicon Valley

467

All Over But the Streaming

468

Elizabeth Warren Is Done Playing It Safe

469

The Zillion-Dollar Convenience Store

470

The Great Model Train Robbery

471

King of the Snitches

472

Hooked

473

Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Is Your Friendly Canadian Weed Guy

474

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

475

The New Red Scare

476

Towing Icebergs From Antarctica to South Africa

477

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

478

Miracle Cures in Our Genes

479

The Wealth Detective

480

The Rebel Economists of Beijing

481

They're Coming for Your Eyeballs

482

The Nadellaissance

483

The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

484

Climate-Fried Steak

485

'The Ear Is the New Wrist'

486

The Legend of Jacinto's Gold

487

Unicorn Season

488

The People’s Degustation Army