$200 Billion, Four Heirs And One Mighty Indian Empire
Gautam Adani, the controversial Indian billionaire, gathered his two sons and two nephews for a family lunch one day and asked them a bombshell question: Did they want to carve up the Adani Group’s sp...
4 Elo 202418min
Japan’s Small Businesses Have a Problem. They Don’t Know How to Raise Prices
Costs are rising in Japan and small businesses risk being squeezed into oblivion if they don’t figure out how to raise their prices. After decades of deflation, many small Japanese companies are out o...
29 Heinä 202416min
K-Pop's Big Bet on Becoming Less Korean
Is K-pop even K-pop without the K? A Bloomberg analysis of song lyrics shows that for the first time, almost half of K-pop songs released this year have majority English lyrics. On today’s podcast, h...
23 Heinä 202414min
Why This Nobel Prize Winner Faces Life Imprisonment in Bangladesh
Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered micro loans as a tool to fight poverty. Now prosecutors in Bangladesh have linked him and his colleagues to a dizzying number of crimes, in...
16 Heinä 202415min
The Chinese Coffee Chain Beating Starbucks
China’s Luckin Coffee is the nation’s top coffee retailer, overtaking even Starbucks. That would be notable itself, but less than 4 years ago the company filed for bankruptcy, making its comeback even...
9 Heinä 202415min
Why China’s Investment Bankers Are Breaking Up With Capitalism
One after another, bankers at China International Capital Corporation — China’s premier investment bank – are pledging loyalty to the Communist Party, underscoring a new reality for Wall Street-style ...
2 Heinä 202415min
The Dirty, Deadly Price We Pay for Clean Cars
Indonesia’s nickel business is booming. The metal is a key component in electric car batteries, but its success has a dark side: the country’s nickel mines and processing plants have a history of fata...
17 Kesä 202417min
