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A Joe Biden took office pledging to “resolve the cascading crises of our era,” from the ongoing pandemic and its accompanying economic devastation to festering racial injustice and the existential threat posed by climate change. But even as his first 100 days have brought bold legislative proposals, they also laid bare the partisan divisions that make challenges like immigration reform more daunting. Here, Bloomberg Opinion columnists take the long view and offer metrics by which to judge the new president moving forward. We’ll track them in the coming months. Confirmed Covid Cases...

© Beachcomber Resort & Spa How business travel will look in the post-pandemic world is one of the great unanswered questions, says Conor Sen on Bloomberg. At the same time, many people are looking forward – or at least planning to book – their first big post-lockdown holiday. That’s where the concept of “bleisure” comes in. “Our growing comfort with remote and flexible work arrangements may open up an even bigger category of travel that combines both business and leisure.”  Particularly in the summer months, when the schools are out and work is slow, it may become normal to w...

The Chart of the Matter These days we measure everything: steps, likes, gender-reveal destructive capacity. But our measures of presidential performance are woefully primitive. Approval ratings, jobs and stock prices? Please. Save it for the kindergartners. Actually, uh, those are still pretty good measures. But Bloomberg Opinion writers swim in deeper data waters. To mark President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, they have hauled up from the abyssal depths 17 shiny metrics that will tell a much fuller story of the next 1,366 days of Biden’s term. From  Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe’s gender-wag...

The jobs are here. Where are the workers? The Week Staff Today's best articles Daily business briefing A surprising labor shortage represents the next economic conundrum, said Peter Coy at Bloomberg Businessweek. At last tally, 6 percent of the population, or 9.7 million Americans, were unemployed and actively looking for work. But many businesses say they are finding hiring extraordinarily hard. The National Federation of Independent Businesses reported earlier this month that 42 percent of "small businesses surveyed said they had jobs they co...

SPACs and Coins May Break Our Bones The good thing about mystery boxes is that you don’t know what’s in them. There could be something great inside, like cash or a puppy. Unfortunately, that’s also the bad thing about mystery boxes. There could be something lame inside, like socks. Then there are the mystery boxes known as SPACs — blank-check companies into which you pour money hoping a pleasant surprise comes out. Sometimes a SPAC will even tell you what’s inside the box, but you still don’t get what you expected. This is looking like the case for a company called Canoo, a ca...