| 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. Sometimes a chart is just a chart. Sometimes, when you're looking at Tesla Inc. and BYD Co. Ltd. in early 2025, it's a striking squiggly metaphor. Tesla, the biggest US electric-vehicle maker, has shocked the world this year with its overt politicization and slumping sales and stock price. BYD, its great Chinese rival, just shocked the world by announcing its newest model can recharge in five minutes. The symbolism, capturing the lead that China has taken in EVs compared with a US still fighting with itself about the relative wokeness of EVs, could hardly be clearer.
Read the whole thing. Kids Are Spending Too Much Class Time on Laptops — Michael R. Bloomberg Canadians Are Extremely Confused Right Now — Francis Wilkinson Pete Hegseth Is Closing a Pentagon Office That Wins Wars — Hal Brands What Spooked the S&P 500? It Wasn't the Trade War — Nir Kaissar The US Economic Outlook Is Becoming More Uncertain — Mohamed A. El-Erian Gen Z Is Taking 'Micro-Retirement.' Don't Laugh — Erin Lowry USAID Ruling May Be Beginning of the End for Musk — Noah Feldman Nike Killshot Is the Next Adidas Samba — Andrea Felsted Tech Giants, Stop Trying to Build Godlike AI — Parmy Olson More From Bloomberg Opinion | - Donald Trump thinks his tariffs will create more jobs for men. Allison Schrager says he's wrong.
- Is it time to abolish the House of Lords? Rosa Prince says we should scrap the "best club in London" and kick the aristocrats out of UK politics.
- Apparently it's not enough to provide a product or service anymore; workers must also produce a feeling. If it doesn't happen organically, companies will just mandate it, says Beth Kowitt.
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