Who do you call when you want to pick a trade fight? A centimillionaire with a fondness for tariffs and a penchant for naps.
November 12, 2018 Issue
Features
The company has been battling its store owners for years. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.
CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the search engine should be willing to work with Chinese censors. Will employees go along with the plan?
The Bloomberg View
Washington will benefit from bipartisan rule and executive oversight.
Remarks
The president is in the bull’s-eye.
Facing U.S. sanctions and tariffs, Moscow and Beijing are finding lots of common ground.
Will the European Union—like the continent’s old empires—also be swept away?
Business
Crustacean economics was a textbook study in supply and demand until Chinese buyers lost their appetite.
Technology
Investors weren’t just being skittish. They were reacting to the new reality.
The company is offering artists a best-in-class cut of their streaming royalties, but its program is a work in progress.
The country’s mobile game makers are losing out to Chinese and Korean companies.
Finance/The Debt Boom
Investors are searching high and low for better returns, and that’s led them into markets beyond familiar stocks and bonds.
The returns are high, but a flood of deals means credit standards are slipping.
YieldStreet wants to make exotic bets available to individual investors online.
Economics
Investors are betting on Paulo Guedes—maybe too much.
With property values up 50 percent since 2013, politicians want to limit flat-sharing.
Politics
Making sure they stick around is the way to get real change.
Solutions/Business Schools
Customer satisfaction remains central to the project.
Bloomberg Businessweek's 30th-annual ranking combines U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia MBA programs in one list.
Immigration woes mean less diverse classrooms and less talent for U.S. companies.
Pursuits
Don’t let your loved ones suffer among everyday objects. These gifts take luxury to a higher plane.
Last Thing
The government’s efforts to bail out businesses have been weak at best.
