Private Equity Is Coming for Your 401(k)
US President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that aims to allow private equity into a $12 trillion piece of America’s retirement market — 401(k)s. On today’s Big Take podcast, private equi...
7 Aug 202515min
Inside the Trump Family’s Money-Making Machine
Since President Trump kicked off his reelection campaign in November 2022, his net worth has more than doubled — to roughly $6.4 billion. No modern American president has positioned his family to make...
6 Aug 202518min
India Won’t Stop Buying Russian Oil. Now It’s Paying the Price.
President Trump has been cranking up the pressure on India, a country the US has courted as a strategic counterweight against China. Last week, Trump announced a 25% tariff on the country, a higher ra...
5 Aug 202514min
The World Trusts US Economic Data. Trump’s BLS Firing Could Change That.
For decades, the data collected by the apolitical Bureau of Labor Statistics was seen as a gold standard — informing decisions made by the Federal Reserve, global business leaders and even presidents....
4 Aug 202514min
Is Trump’s Trade War Strategy Working?
As President Donald Trump’s goalposts for his trade war continue to shift, Big Take host Sarah Holder sits down with Bloomberg’s global trade editor Brendan Murray to discuss where things stand and ho...
1 Aug 202513min
Why It’s So Hard to Buy or Sell a House Right Now
The US housing market just posted its slowest spring season in more than a dozen years. Experts are pointing to a combination of factors: high prices, elevated mortgage rates and economic uncertainty ...
31 Jul 202512min
The Promise of Stablecoin: A Cryptocurrency Meant to Be Boring
President Trump signed the Genius Act, the US’s first major federal cryptocurrency legislation, earlier this month. The law focuses on one type of cryptocurrency: stablecoins. So, what exactly is a st...
30 Jul 202518min
China Bets Big on a $167 Billion Tibetan Dam
China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and neighboring countries concerned. On t...
29 Jul 202514min
