An Optimist’s Guide to a Chaotic World
Plus: Crypto joins the establishment, electricity demand is surging, and the Property Brothers suggest delaying renovations.
Illustration: Chris Harnan for Bloomberg Businessweek
The January issue of Bloomberg Businessweek is dedicated to The Year Ahead. In his Remarks column published here, Editor Brad Stone writes about reasons to look forward to 2025. Plus: Crypto gets its way, AI has an insatiable demand for energy, and the Property Brothers are concerned about tariffs. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .
Proponents of scientific expertise, international cooperation, free trade—as well as anyone hoping for a calm, measured competence emanating from Washington, DC—are probably viewing 2025 from under the dining room table with something close to all-consuming dread. On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will reassume the US presidency, and most of the cabinet appointments that have so unsettled the political establishment in the weeks leading up to that date will be embraced by the Republican-controlled Senate.