Opinion: An $18 Big Mac Meal Is Bad For America

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Monday February 19, 2024

The American burger owes its iconic status, above all, to being inexpensive.

Opinion: Vivek Should Know Nikki Is An Indian Name And American, Too

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Wednesday September 13, 2023

In a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates who will say anything, no matter how absurd, for attention, Vivek Ramaswamy stands apart as a spouter of strategic silliness.

Opinion: Can Satya Nadella Sell Cricket In America?

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Friday July 07, 2023

When I first heard that a Texas billionaire was bankrolling a new cricket league in America, my first thought was, "Oh, no ... I'm not falling for that one again."

Q&A: How India Can Find Its Way Out Of Covid Nightmare

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Monday May 03, 2021

India is suffering the world's worst Covid-19 crisis. The daily infection rate is more than 300,000; the daily death toll, in excess of 2,000, is very likely an undercount.

Opinion: Kerala's Remittance Rush From Abroad May Be Over For Good

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Tuesday July 07, 2020

"Gone to Gulf." That phrase came up a lot in conversations among grown-ups that I overheard as a schoolboy in Kerala during the early 1980s. My father, who managed a lobster-export business in the port of Kochi, was constantly griping about workers who quit on short notice - or none at all - to take up jobs in the Gulf cities of Muscat, Doha or Jeddah.

Opinion: Important Lessons For Saudi Crown Prince In Past Few Months

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Monday June 08, 2020

His hand over his heart - a gesture as common to the Middle East's princes as to its paupers - Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might admit that he bears at least as much responsibility as the coronavirus pandemic for the state of Saudi Arabia's economy. It is, after all, the combination of his ill-timed oil war against Russia with the Covid-19 crisis that has left th...

Opinion: Saudi Prince, On Phone With Trump, Asked Aides To Go. What Happened Next

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Tuesday May 05, 2020

There came a moment during Donald Trump's April 2 phone call to Mohammed bin Salman when Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, apparently stunned by what the American president had just said, asked his aides to leave the room. No courtiers were present when their master, no slouch at intimidation himself, was apparently bullied into submission.

Opinion: These Four Deaths Will Transform The Middle East

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg | Thursday August 23, 2018

There is now a consensus that any political transformation of the Middle East - a long-cherished goal of both U.S. policymakers and millions who live there - will not be achieved by revolution, foreign intervention or civil war.