Tether is what’s come to be known in financial circles as a stablecoin—stable because one Tether is supposed to be backed by one dollar. But exactly how Tether is backed, or if it’s truly backed at all, has always been a mystery.

Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "Anyone Seen Tether's Billions?"

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Brazil’s crops have been scorched, frozen and then dried out by the worst drought in a century, upending global commodity markets. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "The Country That Makes Breakfast for the World Plagued With Fire, Frost, Drought."

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For anyone hoping to see light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel over the next three to six months, scientists have some bad news: Brace for more of what we’ve already been through. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Pandemic's Next Six Months Will Pit Vaccines Against Variants."

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The children of 9/11, some 3,000 in number, are grown up now and chasing their own dreams. A few dozen have sworn an oath, like the parents they lost once did, to serve New York as firefighters or police officers. And a few dozen have followed the ones they lost onto Wall Street — some into the very same investment firms. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Generation 9/11: Following Parents They Lost Onto Wall Street"

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For years, America’s most upbeat retailer funded surveillance to make inner cities safe—for some. Now it’s trying to convince people of color that it’s changed.

Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "Target’s Cozy Police Legacy Leaves Black Americans Wary."

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In the complicated new math of climate solutions, villagers clearing brush in southern Africa can end up redefining networks of global commerce worth billions of dollars. Environmental projects stand as shadow partners to emission-heavy energy trades happening far away. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "How to Sell ‘Carbon Neutral’ Fossil Fuel That Doesn’t Exist."

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Restricted information flows can mask political and regulatory problems as well as potential fraud and corruption, raising the risks of doing business — particularly in more volatile emerging markets where good-quality information may already be scarce. Yet in an era when environmental, social and governance investing is increasingly in the spotlight, press freedom is still low on most investors’ list of concerns. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Investors Are Ignoring a Dangerous Crackdown on Press Freedom"

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Children have to get vaccinated for less urgent threats—and it works. So why not with Covid? Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "Vaccine Mandates for Kids Could Be the Next Big Back-to-School Fight"

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Brazil’s rainforest is being stolen and cleared at an accelerating pace, and the Bolsonaro government is fanning the flames. Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return." 

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After calamity and years of restrained ambition under cost-obsessed executives at Boeing, the company that was once a factory of dreams is losing workers to SpaceX and Amazon. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Boeing’s Talent Exodus Threatens Turnaround"

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