At some point Michael Bloomberg was unemployed. He first lost a job in finance, then he became "unemployed" again even though he was working. How? Upon losing his job, Bloomberg essentially created an all-new industry defined by endless information that could be had via eponymous terminals. Out of this the name Bloomberg became a verb.
John Cowperthwaite, Hong Kong’s legendary financial secretary, would have understood Bloomberg’s prosperous evolution from unemployed to, well, unemployed.
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