Michael Bloomberg: a master of many guises

Michael Bloomberg launched his financial data company after getting fired from Wall Street. Could the billionaire media magnate and former New York mayor now become president? 

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Bloomberg: a reputation for smarts, sharp edges and occasional crassness
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"No-one is more closely associated with New York City's 21st century renaissance than Michael Bloomberg," says The New York Times. Despite some personal flaws "crankiness, a tin ear" and a few "policy fiascoes", the Boston-born technocrat and self-made multibillionaire (worth $54bn) was a transformative mayor between 2002 and 2014. "Crime plummeted, schools improved, racial tensions eased, the arts flourished, tourism boomed and city coffers swelled."

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.