American workers are growing increasingly confident about the labor market. The number of workers leaving their current place of employment, as a share of total unemployed, increased in March to 13.1 percent, the government's jobs report showed on Friday. That's the highest in nearly 17 years.
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Want to receive this post in your inbox every morning? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more. It was a week with headlines dominated by tariff wars, immigration and border tensions. Here's your roundup of some of Bloomberg's best
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A cyberattack that U.S. natural gas pipeline owners weren't required to report has lawmakers taking a closer look at how the industry is handling such threats, raising the prospect of tighter regulation. In website notices to customers this week, at least seven pipeline operators from Energy Transfer
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Then on Thursday, proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that GE dump KPMG as its accounting firm. Glass, Lewis & Co., another proxy advisory firm, had recommended similar action earlier in the week. KPMG has been GE's accounting firm for 109 years. GE stock closed at
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Recent threats to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, coupled with China's own retaliatory announcements have raised the prospects of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. But what is a trade war, and what would be the economic ramifications if there were one? Brad Setser, the
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