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David Gura
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Anchor and Correspondent, Bloomberg News | [email protected] | Opinions are my own.
Brutal.
No offense @davidgura.bsky.social, but I’m paying more attention to Chelsea-Barcelona
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Agreeing Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismisses the James Comey indictment without prejudice.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Shortly after he married fellow Harvard University Professor Elisa New, Larry Summers and his wife flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane to the Caribbean, and spent part of their honeymoon on Epstein’s private island, The Harvard Crimson reports.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
After he interviewed Jensen Huang, Ed Ludlow joined us on “The Big Take.”
Nvidia Silences AI Skeptics (For Now)
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November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein,” The Harvard Crimson reports.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Reposted by David Gura
After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills.

"Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
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November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills.

"Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The White House is readying the Sharpies. The end of the longest government shutdown in history is in sight.
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Reposted by David Gura
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An update on the “American dream,” from NPR’s Scott Horsley:
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“The average family in the US currently pays $6,850 annually for health insurance, and the average annual payment for employers is $20,143,” Apollo’s Torsten Sløk writes, in a new note. “That is a total annual cost for health insurance per family of $26,993.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline, according to AAA, is $3.084.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’m flying between Brazilian cities, and the flight attendant ends her introduction with a warning about the spread of measles.

“Vaccines save lives,” she says.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Next week’s cover of The New Yorker, “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez:
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Days after CBS cancelled John Dickerson’s show, and he announced his departure from the network, Dickerson was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award:
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by David Gura
“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.

Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”

Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.

I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:
How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Government Shutdown, Day 30
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
After the Trump-Xi meeting, it was time for the Liu-Murray-Gura meeting:
Trump Got an ‘Amazing’ Meeting. China Got Much-Needed Time
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October 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When ProPublica tried to get comment for its profile of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court:
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our latest:
Is the Fed Flying Blind?
Podcast Episode · Big Take · 10/29/2025 · 18m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NVIDIA’s market cap exceeds $5 trillion:
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The president of the United States is “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10%” because he worries the nine justices on the Supreme Court could be swayed by a 30-second commercial.
October 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.

Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”

Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.

I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:
How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM