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Myanmar’s leader needs to lead

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s iconic leader, is sacrificing her moral authority for political expediency. By failing to speak out against repression — and, more broadly, by not doing enough to help her country grow and prosper — she risks losing both her power and her reputation. Suu Kyi, whose years leading the resistance to the Burmese junta earned her ...

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Maybe cities are actually the future of suburbs

I recently had a discussion with my Bloomberg View colleagues Conor Sen and Justin Fox about whether cities or suburbs are the future in the US, this turns out to be a very popular and contentious topic. Richard Florida, the noted urbanist, recently bemoaned the death of the great urban revival that saw young Americans flocking to city centers during ...

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Sunsets can save HK’s dual-class share vision

Imagine buying a home when the previous owner continues to live in it and call the shots, indefinitely. Imagine running a market that matched such sellers with buyers. That’s the dilemma facing Hong Kong and other financial hubs such as Singapore and London as they consider accepting the dual-class shareholding structure used by US-listed tech giants like Facebook Inc. and ...

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