Iceberg lettuce is no longer head of the class

Follow Us Paid Post The Madness Every earnings season, thousands of analysts  spend 40% of their time manually entering identical  numbers into nearly identical spreadsheets. Hundreds  of funds already use Canalyst's 4000+ fundamental  models and seamless earnings updates to get ahead.   Canalyst America Has Lost Its Taste for Iceberg Lettuce — Justin Fox It is quite possible 2020 will be remembered as a turning point in American history, a moment after which the country became irretrievably different from what it had been before. Yes, that's right, this could be the year consumption of romaine and other leaf lettuce finally surpasses that of head lettuce, which is mostly iceberg lettuce. Then again, it might not be. The 2019 data, released in September, actually show lettuce heads doing slightly better against lettuce leaves than in 2017 and 2018 (ahead by 0.3 pounds instead of 0.1). Perhaps New Yorker magazine food correspondent Helen Rosner's August 2018 manifesto, "It's Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce," turned the tide. Still, it's been quite the comedown over the past three decades for America's lettuce. Read the whole thing. The Crisis of Conservatism — John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge 'Long Covid' Makes the Pandemic Even Scarier — Andreas Kluth Republicans Are Setting Up a Nuclear Winter — Jonathan Bernstein Covid-19 Hits the Old Hardest, But the Healthy Longest — Therese Raphael China Is Loading Up a Five-Year Warning Shot to the U.S. — Anjani Trivedi A Dangerous Libertarian Strategy for Herd Immunity — Tyler Cowen A Horrifying Covid Chart Still Frightens Months Later — Max Nisen Too Many Ships Could Swamp America's Military — James Stavridis Covid-19 Is Big Oil's Asteroid Strike — Julian Lee This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership.   Like Bloomberg Opinion Today? Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more. You'll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can't find anywhere else. Learn more.   You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022