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    Michael Bloomberg: Brexit is stupidest thing any country has done besides Trump

    Exclusive: Billionaire media mogul says it is ‘hard to understand why a country doing so well wanted to ruin it’
    by Graham Ruddick Media editor Oct 24, 2017 3 minutes
    Chief Executive Officer of media company Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg is seen at the launch of Bloombergs new European Headquarters in the City of London on October 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / Getty Images

    Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president.

    Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series of outspoken remarks made at a technology conference in Boston a fortnight ago.

    At that event, Bloomberg, 75, also warned

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