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I agree -- the Economist is the exact opposite of what Bloomberg is pointing out. They provide a few scant (or no) examples, and then oddly jump to extrapolating what we should do about the universe. They don't seem to build credibility within an article to make you think they should know what should be done on some specific issue.

Sorry to fall back on a stereotype, but they come off as Oxford students sitting in college, pontificating on the world they've read about.

Maybe I'm mostly thinking about their pseudo-opinion pieces. It just got to the point I didn't enjoy reading them, and no longer do.



It looks like the Bloomberg editor in chief is actually the former editor of The Economist, though he switched 5 years ago

Learned this in one of the articles in this thread:

Shortly after his return, he hired a new editor-in-chief -- John Micklethwait, of The Economist https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/07/bloomberg-fires...




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