Bloomberg The woman most likely to become Sweden’s next prime minister began her tenure as leader of the ruling party by taking a dig at Wall Street bankers. In her first speech to the Social Democratic Party after her election, Magdalena Andersson recalled encounters with “grinning bankers” who said her country’s welfare model was doomed after Sweden’s financial crisis in ...

Bloomberg US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s struggle to deliver on President Joe Biden’s two biggest policy priorities has illustrated the distrust and divisions within her party at a time Democrats desperately want to show they can govern. Democrats eked out a victory on a $550 billion public works bill after months of wrangling between moderates and progressives. As soon as ...

Bloomberg Chile’s conservative candidate Jose Antonio Kast would beat both of main leftist contenders in a presidential runoff, according to one of the final polls released ahead of the highly-contested election. Kast got 44% of support while leftist rival Gabriel Boric got 40% in a second-round vote, according to a survey by Cadem. Kast would also edge out Yasna Provoste ...