Can Bloomberg buy the US election?

Friday, 14 February 2020

If you turn on a television set in America for even a short amount of time you will see an advertisement for Bloomberg’s presidential campaign.

There he is working with Barack Obama to tackle gun violence. There he is touting his success at shutting down coal-fired power plants. There he is declaring, without a hint of doubt in his voice, that he will beat Donald Trump in November.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.