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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 202415min
Hong Kong: Five Years After Anti-China Protests
Four years after Beijing imposed a national security law on the city, Hong Kong continues to serve as an important financial hub connecting mainland China with the rest of the world. But beneath the s...
25 Jun 202418min
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 Jun 202417min
A New Breed of Scammer Is Targeting Asia's Ultra-Rich
Reports of alleged imposters are cropping up more and more in the family office frenzy in Singapore and Hong Kong. The ultra wealthy use family offices to manage their finances and affairs. Today on T...
11 Jun 202417min
