This Cryptocurrency Wants To Scan Your Eyeball
Bloomberg’s Hannah Miller is back today to explain why Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is collecting iris scans in exchange for crypto tokens. Read more: Worldcoin’s Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Dream Is Under Thre...
27 Sep 202320min
US Companies Pledged To Improve Workplace Diversity. And They Have
After the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests in 2020, corporate America made bold promises to address racial disparities in the workplace. And they delivered. Bloomberg’s Jeff Green and Re...
25 Sep 202325min
NYC Tries Supervised Release Instead Of Jail. Other Cities Are Watching
Hundreds of thousands of people charged with crimes in the US each year are incarcerated while they await trial. Often it’s because they can’t afford to pay bail. New York City’s pretrial supervised r...
25 Sep 202320min
Big Take News Wrap: UN General Assembly. US-Iran Prisoner Swap. UAW Strike
Catch up on some of the week’s biggest stories from the US and across the globe. Bloomberg’s Rosalind Mathieson, Mario Parker and Ben Sills join this episode to talk about the major issues on the tabl...
22 Sep 202322min
Geopolitics Is Shaking Up Economic Alliances
Bloomberg’s Shawn Donnan and Maeva Cousin join this episode to explain how rising political tensions around the world are leading to a re-ordering of trade and commerce into rival economic blocs. Read...
21 Sep 202329min
Here's How Workers Describe Dollar General. Brace Yourself
The Dollar General retail chain has 19,000-plus locations, more than Walmart and Wendy’s combined. Its business model is to open in towns too small to support bigger retailers, sell necessities at low...
20 Sep 202324min
It’s Tough Being A Blue City In A Red State
Bloomberg Businessweek national political correspondent Joshua Green joins this episode to describe a political phenomenon that’s emerging in parts of the US: red states encroaching on blue cities. In...
19 Sep 202325min
What Do Striking US Auto Workers Want?
On Friday, US auto workers started an unprecedented strike against all three of the legacy Detroit carmakers. If the standoff isn’t resolved quickly, it could ripple through the US economy. Bloomberg...
18 Sep 202320min
