Amanda Mull
@amandamull
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senior reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek. i write Buying Power, a column on consumer culture. ex @theatlantic. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
The worst guy you know just chatGPT’d how to play Padel
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Lot of these sports outlets must be so happy to have Pablo Torre doing investigations that they can aggregate so they can look like they’re reporting news and scandals without ever having to answer why they don’t fund their own writers to do the same things
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From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, I wrote about how and why American culture has gotten so southern. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.
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From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, I wrote about how and why American culture has gotten so southern. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.
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I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a change in how trends are produced and why they catch on. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.
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Interesting interview from the man Trump wants to put in charge of Social Security COLAs: Social Security must be sunsetted, we need to have a generation of people who pay social security taxes but do not receive benefits.
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Some new details out from the Cuomo campaign on his "Zohran's law" proposal to means-test rent stabilized tenants. But the way this is phrased makes it sounds like he wants tenants to be rent burdened.
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i really needed this piece, and it's comforting to learn my confusion is not just from getting older https://t.co/xRmFBBm9N8
I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a change in how trends are produced and why they catch on. Gift link:
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I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a change in how trends are produced and why they catch on. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.
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This @BW story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just...all of it! It's so good. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
Goldendoodles, labradoodles and bernedoodles are everywhere. Have we finally reached peak doodle?
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a cockapoo should really be a cockadoodle tbh. missed opportunity.
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This @BW story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just...all of it! It's so good. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
Goldendoodles, labradoodles and bernedoodles are everywhere. Have we finally reached peak doodle?
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For my Georgia folks: a significant part of the story takes place in Macon
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Really love this @BW story about the world's largest zipper-maker, YKK, by @viajoshhunt. It's fascinating in too many ways to get into in a tweet. Gift link:
bloomberg.com
The world’s largest zipper manufacturer has spent decades mastering the global supply chain. Now it has to weather the Trump-tariff era.
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You are not alone in hating shopping in the age of locked shelves. On today’s Big Take podcast, @amandamull walks host @sarahsholder through the surprising costs of putting products behind lock and key.
bloomberg.com
On today’s Big Take podcast, why retailers started locking their shelves, and why some of them have started to reconsider that strategy.
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The past few years, retailers started locking more and more essentials on their shelves as an anti-theft measure. But there has been little evidence that it’s worked. @amandamull joins @sarahsholder on the Big Take podcast to discuss the causes and consequences of the retail
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Nothing I'd read about the bad job market for new college grads felt quite right, so I did some digging and found what I think is a more comprehensive explanation for why these workers are having a tough time and what it means. The issue isn't AI! Gift:
bloomberg.com
A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.
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New episode! Powell v Trump, Travel v Staycation, witches v natural science. Featuring @amandamull @marthagimbel @svaneksmith SUBSCRIBE!!
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In this week’s episode of Everybody’s Business, we discuss how markets and the economy would react to an attempted ouster of the Fed Chair.
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