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  1. Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills

    Hardly anyone nowadays seems to carry much cash, never mind carrying around a bunch of $100 bills. So why does the amount of physical cash in circulation — especially big denominations like the $100 bill — keep increasing? There's a pretty

  2. Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense

    Our guest today is Colonel Sanders. More precisely, we speak with Wayne Sanders, a retired US army colonel who is currently senior defense research analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. During his military career, Sanders specialized in cyber

  3. What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields

    Global bond yields are at their highest level since 2008, with the 30-year US Treasury touching 5% just before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a surprise increase of his department's bond buyback program and Fed Chairman Kevin Wa

  4. Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed

    Kevin Warsh gave a hawkish speech at this year's annual Kansas City Fed Symposium in Jackson Hole, but that doesn't mean the challenges are over. Will the Fed actually pull the trigger on rate hikes? What happens if the central bank doesn't

  5. Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy

    The implications of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech are pretty clear: Traders expect a rate hike given the hawkish hints littered in his address, largely focused on inflation. There are still a number of open questions and Warsh

  6. Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating

    Inflation remains high and the 2% target is farther away than it was this time last year. There are signs all over that the economy is overheating — the strange labor market where hiring and firing remains low, while GDP is growing, but mos

  7. Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era

    We are back in Jackson Hole! And this year's Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium on monetary policy might be one of the most interesting editions in years. It marks the first under new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, and Fed observers a

  8. The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy

    Earlier in August, it was reported that Nigeria's Dangote Refinery secured a $1 billion underwriting for its upcoming stock market listing, which is set to become Africa's largest IPO. Indeed, the whole the continent has seen lots of econom

  9. Jasmine Sun on What the AI Industry Got Wrong About the Public Backlash

    Within the AI industry, even the builders of it have been very anxious about the technology. They've talked for years about its potential to create destabilizing job losses. They even spend a lot of time thinking about rogue AI that could l

  10. Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems

    The philosopher Nick Bostrom was one of the first thinkers who mapped out the existential risk of AI. In his 2014 book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, he delved into various scenarios — like the now-famous “paperclip maximiz

  11. What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Really Tells Us About AI Danger

    Scenarios that used to be the domain of sci-fi writers are coming true. We have machines that can talk. We have machines that are capable of ignoring the intent of their creators. And we have machines that are capable of planning and coordi

  12. A Historic El Niño Is Coming That Could Cost the World Trillions

    Every few years, weather nerds and agriculture analysts will talk about an upcoming El Niño, and then they mostly pass by with relatively few headlines. But sometimes El Niños end up being massively destabilizing -- leading to

  13. Trucking Is Booming Again, And Drivers Aren't Happy About It

    In the last year, freight companies have seen a significant upturn in the business. Volumes are up. Billing is up. And in addition to growing demand, we've also seen new constraints on the supply side, with the administration cracking down

  14. NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on Running a Media Brand in the Age of AI

    In the last decade, the New York Times has remade itself many times over. It has done that through acquisitions (The Athletic, Wirecutter, and the ever-popular Wordle) and by navigating all the different challenges that have emerged in the

  15. Introducing: Our Town

    Our Town from Bloomberg’s Big Take podcast follows residents of Gainesboro, Tennessee, after a group of far-right Christians moves in with plans for a radical social experiment. Listen to Episode 1 on the Big Take. See https://omnystudio.co

  16. How a Sardine Gets From the Ocean to a Can

    Just a decade ago, tinned fish was hardly a premium product. Most Americans likely associated cans of tuna with thrift. But that has changed a lot in recent years. The category took off during Covid and now shoppers are shelling out for hig

  17. Brad Setser on the US's Unusual Japanese Yen Intervention

    Last week, the US joined forces with Japan to try to stop the yen’s slide. It’s the first time the two sides have intervened in the Japanese currency in 15 years, and in many ways it was an unprecedented and unusual move, with Treasury Secr

  18. The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War

    Bloomberg Opinion columnist David Fickling tells us you can think of tungsten mining as “a century old prediction market for war.” As he writes in a recent piece (https://bit.ly/4ySeGpo), tungsten is “a super-element that can determine the

  19. Why Private Credit Got Entangled With Insurance

    Insurers have quietly become a major driver of the private credit boom, with numerous private equity shops striking deals with insurance companies or buying them outright. But the entanglement with private credit is also changing the insura

  20. How the Iranian Economy Actually Works

    After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the country's new leaders — religious and political — promised to redistribute the country's wealth and made moves to make Iran independent from western influence and business interests. In the decades

  21. Branko Milanovic on What Comes After Globalization

    It's pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuring out what to call this new era. Branko Milanovic's chosen phrase is "national market lib

  22. How Financial Advisors Can Grow During the Great Wealth Transfer (Sponsored Content)

    Over the next two decades, more than $100 trillion will change hands in the greatest wealth transfer in history. This is a massive opportunity for financial advisors, both new and established. This conversation provides detailed, research-b

  23. How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy

    When the fast food industry began booming in the 1950s, it did so via a new business model known as the franchise. This model allowed independent operators to license trademarks from a business like McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts, and it soon

  24. Why Apple Is Heading Into a Pivotal Moment

    There used to be a time when the latest product release from Apple was a huge deal. But lately, it's been kind of 'meh,' and a lot of the hype in the tech world has been directed at companies doing things with AI. For better or worse, Apple

  25. The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World

    2026 has been, in terms of software, the year everyone is talking about Claude Code. Indeed, Anthropic's coding agent incited a market scare — and helped usher in the era of vibe coding — through its promise of streamlining software develop

  26. Lev Menand and Nathan Tankus on Why Fed Independence Is Now Hanging by a Thread

    Last August, President Trump made the unprecedented choice of moving to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. The administration claimed she was being terminated with cause, citing an ongoing investigation in alleged mortgage fraud committed by Cook

  27. Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading

    American sports fans have long been comfortable talking in the language of stats and analytics. Soccer embraced the 'moneyball' revolution later; the sport was once perceived as too complex to model analytically — there were too many player

  28. NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium

    On July 14, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on new large data center projects in the state. It's the nation's first such pause at a time when anti-data center politics is on the rise around the country. But Ho

  29. Why AI Might Actually Create More Work for Lawyers

    It seems obvious that among the many industries that AI might disrupt, the legal profession might face some of the most adverse outcomes. When clerical, research-based tasks like searching through databases and reading contracts are automat

  30. The Korean Levered ETFs Shaking Markets All Around the World

    Retail participation in the stock market is booming. And of course the biggest story in markets is the AI trade, which has created an incredible amount of demand for chips and memory. These two broad themes have come together in the form of

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