Britain has just completed the process of quitting the European Union, a major act of foreign policy that most of the world finds bewildering and considers ill-advised. It brought to mind comments at an Anglo-German conference some 15 years ago made by the then-chairman of Mercedes-Benz: "I want to tell our British friends how much we hope they will remain partners in the EU. Should they decide to leave, however, I hope you will not consider it impolite if I suggest that, in an age of giant trading blocs, you may find it cold out there." So why has Britain taken this leap into the unknown? Read the whole thing. Trump's Phone Call Is What Coup Fever Looks Like — Timothy L. O'Brien What a Senate Majority Means for Democrats — Jonathan Bernstein Bitcoin's Bulls Should Fear Its Other Scarcity Problem — David Fickling India's Vaccine Nationalism Is a Global Risk — Andy Mukherjee America Is Pumping Out Too Many Ph.D.s — Noah Smith Picking Stocks for 2021: Genomics, Electric Vehicles, Bitcoin — Matthew Winkler Singapore's Covid Success Isn't Easily Replicated — Daniel Moss The Politics of Covid Just Got Even More Hellish — Tyler Cowen The City of London's New Big Bang — Elisa Martinuzzi 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. |
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