Bloomberg -Opinion - Most Popular by Brooke Sample -February 8, 2025

 

This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership. Trump Is Testing Our Constitutional System. It’s Doing Fine. — Noah Feldman The Trump administration is subjecting the US constitutional system to a stress test. We’re on the treadmill, with instruments recording everything that’s happening. Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America Nearly every day since taking office, Trump has done something unlawful that makes the treadmill go a little faster. He has purported to ban birthright citizenship; fired 17 inspectors general; briefly frozen federal spending; and, most recently, taken steps to shutter the US Agency for International Development. When these stressors are introduced into the system, the courts swing into action and block Trump’s executive overreach. Congress protests — or is supposed to — that the president can’t override federal laws that direct spending or establish agencies. If those things happen, the system equilibrates. Instead of degrading, the stress test shows the system works and what might need some fixing. How long will the stress test continue? No one knows for sure. It’s been two weeks and Trump still seems able to come up with a headline-capturing power grab every day or two. What is certain is that the president can’t sustain this rhythm forever.  Read the whole thing. How Stupid Is This Trade War? Let Me Count the Ways — John Authers Trump Lost the Trade War He Started With Canada — Patricia Lopez So Much for Susie Wiles Containing Trump’s Chaos — Nia-Malika Henderson Tesla Is a Car Company. Its Stock Is a Meme. — Liam Denning Trump’s Bullying Trade Tactics Will Backfire — Karishma Vaswani Xi Has Squandered His Most Powerful Trade War Weapon — Shuli Ren Trump’s Resource Grab in Ukraine Is a Price Worth Paying — Marc Champion Why Norway’s Political Crisis Is a European Energy Problem — Javier Blas Trump and Musk Are Vandalizing the World — Andreas Kluth More From Bloomberg Opinion Does Volvo’s Chinese ownership pose a US national security risk? Chris Bryant checks it out. Don’t let the data fool you: The US is failing working women, says Kathryn Edwards. Using DEI as a blanket term just gives ammunition to anti-woke forces. Instead, Costco should tell us more about its actual policies, says Beth Kowitt. Hungry for more weekend reads? Sign up for Bloomberg News’ Weekend Edition newsletter for big ideas and open questions in the fascinating places where finance, life and culture meet.