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 d...
14 Elo 55min
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...
13 Elo 46min
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 differ...
10 Elo 59min
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 ...
9 Elo 1min
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 a...
7 Elo 57min
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 unpreceden...
6 Elo 42min
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, tungsten is “a super-element that can...
3 Elo 44min
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 pr...
31 Heinä 51min
