Opinion: Saudi Is Wrong Partner For IPL - The Price Is Too High

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Thursday November 16, 2023

This year, Saudi Arabia's expansion into global sports has disrupted professional golf, upended the soccer business and garnered the kingdom the 2034 World Cup. Now it's turning to cricket.

Opinion: Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos Spat Reflects Bad Space Policy

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Wednesday June 16, 2021

Last week, the Senate passed a measure that would allot $10 billion over five years for NASA to develop two new lunar landers.

Opinion: How Panipat Lost An Important Front To China

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 16, 2018

For decades, the donation bin has offered consumers in rich countries a guilt-free way to unload their old clothing. In a virtuous and profitable cycle, a global network of traders would collect these garments, grade them, and transport them around the world to be recycled, worn again, or turned into rags and stuffing.

Opinion: As Many Die At Everest, An Old Problem: Too Many Climbers, Deadly Congestion

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Wednesday May 25, 2016

This year more than 400 climbers and sherpas decided to try their luck at summiting Mount Everest during the spring climbing season. Tragically, at least four have died so far and more than 30 others are reported to be suffering from severe frostbite and other ailments caused by prolonged exposure to Everest's brutal conditions.

Opinion: Apple's 'Error 53' Could Upend A Lucrative Business

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Tuesday February 16, 2016

Imagine if Ford remotely disabled the engine on your new F-150 pickup because you chose to have the door locks fixed at a corner garage rather than a dealership. Sound absurd? Not if you're Apple.

Opinion: Why Apple's Old Phones Make Sense For A New India

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Thursday February 04, 2016

Roughly 80 percent of India's population lacks access to the Internet. Apple, purveyor of some of the world's most expensive smartphones, has a solution. As the Indian Express reported last week, the U.S.-based company hopes to import used, refurbished Chinese iPhones into India and sell them cheaply. Later, it plans to build factories to refurbish iPhones in India it...

Opinion: Two-Child Policy for China is Too Little, Too Late

Adam Minter, Bloomberg | Tuesday October 27, 2015

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country's economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies. According to reports in Chinese media, the government may be ready to relax the notorious "one-child" policy, in existence since the late 1970s, and allow Chinese parents to have two kids.