Weekend Listen: The Rise and Fall of an Alleged Scam Boss
By any account, Chen Zhi's ascent was meteoric. At a young age he founded a real estate company in Cambodia, which quickly became the sprawling Prince Group conglomerate. But beneath this legitimate f...
15 Maalis 19min
Your Streaming Subscription Could Be the Next Trade Battlefield
From online banking and social media to digital ads and AI subscriptions, digital services are the fastest-growing segment of global trade. Unlike physical exports, they’ve been subject to little regu...
13 Maalis 17min
Iran War Spotlights the Pentagon’s AI Strategy
In the first 24 hours of US attacks on Iran, the scale of firepower more than doubled that of the US’ initial assault on Iraq in 2003 — an expansion made possible by the Pentagon’s embrace of AI. Just...
12 Maalis 19min
Why So Many Private Credit Investors Want Out
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Brian Chappatta and Olivia Fishlow unpack the recent tumult in the world of private credit. How cracks formed in this $1.8 trillion market, how companies are t...
11 Maalis 19min
What a $100-Per-Barrel Oil Spike Does to the Global Economy
After oil soared to nearly $120 per barrel on Sunday, President Donald Trump began to signal that the US had already achieved victory in Iran and could wind down the conflict soon. There was an immedi...
10 Maalis 19min
Iran War Could Hinge on Who Runs Low on Munitions First
A major factor that could limit hostilities in Iran and the Middle East is munitions — what weapons each side is using, and how quickly they might run out. On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder ta...
9 Maalis 19min
The $240 Million Ad Campaign That Helped Get Kristi Noem Fired
President Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem from her role as head of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday. One of the reasons for Noem’s removal involved her oversight of a $240 million DHS ad...
7 Maalis 23min
The Sixth Bureau Episode 5: One Way In, One Way Out
In Episode 5 of The Sixth Bureau, a series from The Big Take, a spy from China’s Ministry of State Security travels to an overseas meeting with a valuable source. He has no idea he is walking into a t...
7 Maalis 33min
