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Adrian Wooldridge

ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE IS THE GLOBAL BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR BLOOMBERG OPINION. A FORMER WRITER AT THE ECONOMIST, HE IS AUTHOR, MOST RECENTLY, OF “THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT: HOW MERITOCRACY MADE THE MODERN WORLD". @ADWOOLDRIDGE

Now, genetic screening allows parents to test for a wide range of genetic predispositions, while advances in the technology of in-vitro fertilisation allow couples who have no problem conceiving to avail themselves of embryo screening.

Today’s eugenics is much more dangerous

Successful family businesses often look for ways to secure a pipeline of talented family members. Ferrari chair John Elkann, the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, had to prove himself by working incognito in several different family-related businesses.

Europe’s best family firms have a secret weapon money can’t buy

Karol Nawrocki is a former boxer, whose presidential campaign featured videos of him in the boxing ring and shooting range.

Why are today’s strongmen so obsessed with muscle?

Containers at the Port of Los Angeles.

Tariffs got you down? Brush off the 1930s playbook

Do long queues for baguettes in London on a Friday morning speak of growing British enthusiasm for aspects of French culture?

Why are the British becoming so French?

Both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq now demand that a majority of directors are independent, and directors undergo professional training in business schools.

DEI may not survive. But shareholder activism will

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Business Roundtable quarterly meeting with Business Roundtable Chair and Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
THE BROAD VIEW

US CEOs need to find their missing backbones

Maga supporters at a rally in January. The idea that Trump will act as a booster of small business is hardly plausible, says the writer, considering that his first administration proved better at delivering on its promises to dynastic fortunes.

Maga wants to end capitalism as we know it

Migrants on a boat arriving at the Canary island of El Hierro. Tens of millions of people are likely to flee Africa and Latin America in the coming years, driven by political and economic challenges and climate change.

How has the 21st century gone so wrong?

Argentina's President Javier Milei and Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, in New York City, September 2024. They could be all thumbs when it comes to the public sector.

Musk and Milei belong to the same cult of disruption

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