Bloomie

English Etymology From en Bloomberg -ie. Proper noun en informal A nickname for Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman, politician, CEO of Bloomberg L.P. and mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. en 2009-11-15 Fernanda Santos Fewer Hasidim Backed Mayor, Study Finds w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/nyregion/16orthodox.html Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was getting an earful. “He created this crisis so that he can take credit for fixing it and get our votes in exchange,” one commenter wrote on a Brooklyn blog, Vos Iz Neias, Yiddish for “What is News.” Someone else remarked, “I got to my store I got 2 tickets from the Sanitation police. I sure deserved it Bloomie. I will NOT vote for you.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240625153315/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/nyregion/16orthodox.html 25 June 2024 en 2020-03-02 w:Taki Theodoracopulos What makes Bloomie run? The Spectator (US edition) https://thespectator.com/topic/what-makes-bloomie-run-michael-bloomberg-2020/ Bloomie recently wrote that unlike Trump he did not inherit a fortune. That he did not. But nor, really, did The Donald. Transforming a Wild West town into a peaceful Swiss village takes a long time — eight years to be exact — and Bloomie was smart and opportunistic enough to keep Rudy’s people and structure in place. https://web.archive.org/web/20250823141952/https://thespectator.com/topic/what-makes-bloomie-run-michael-bloomberg-2020/ 23 August 2025 en informal The American financial and mass media company Bloomberg L.P., or any of its products (such as the Bloomberg Terminal) or divisions (such as Bloomberg News). en 2022-09-26 Craig Mathieson Ambition and moral bankruptcy is the currency in which this ferocious show trades w:The Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/ambition-and-moral-bankruptcy-is-the-currency-in-which-industry-trades-20220916-p5bisq.html The workplace was everything in season one of Industry, a chaotic open office of “Bloomie” (Bloomberg) terminals and territorial snarling. The characters barely existed outside the office. https://web.archive.org/web/20240420120157/https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/ambition-and-moral-bankruptcy-is-the-currency-in-which-industry-trades-20220916-p5bisq.html 20 April 2024 en 2022-12-20 Louis Ashworth Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement w:Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/c41495ac-0eff-454f-a6ea-2eef6b6f897f It’s a shock final (?) twist by Kuroda, who is stepping down in the spring and was expected by many to go quietly. Victims include Bloomberg, whose headline “BOJ to Sit Tight as Markets Weigh Post-Kuroda Path” survived a matter of hours (to be fair, the 47 economists Bloomie polled all reckoned today would be a non-event). See also en Bloomie's en Individuals Nicknames for individuals