The Hottest New Trade Is Your Own Electricity
Energy consumers are used to a pretty simple transaction with utility companies: get electricity to power your home, pay up every month. Now, more consumers are stockpiling their own energy using sola...
3 Sep 17min
Deadly Flooding in Nepal Highlights Asia’s Climate Vulnerability
Hundreds of hydropower workers remain missing in Nepal after a glacial collapse caused catastrophic flooding. The disaster laid bare the rising climate risks across Asia and the danger of building in ...
2 Sep 16min
CIA Director Visits Moscow As Ukraine Stares Down a Dangerous Winter
Russia escalated attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv this past weekend. It’s the latest signal that Ukraine could face a brutal, decisive winter in this conflict. Meanwhile, the CIA director paid...
1 Sep 14min
TikTok Experimented With Users’ Algorithms. One Died By Suicide
Meta has agreed to pay a $17 billion settlement over a range of claims related to the safety and privacy of its platforms, including youth use of social media. The outcome, announced last week, could ...
31 Aug 23min
Our Town Chapter 4: All Metal Mode
A 12-foot grim reaper becomes a neighborhood war cry, and the preacher-podcaster crosses the street.Today on The Big Take: Chapter 4 of Our Town, a limited-run series from Bloomberg and The Big Take, ...
28 Aug 43min
US Fed Chair Warsh Takes the Mic
With Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh set to deliver the biggest speech of his tenure on Friday, anticipation is spreading well beyond bankers and traders. Bond yields are rising, as global economies send up ...
27 Aug 18min
How Two-Minute Microdramas Became a Billion-Dollar Industry
Microdramas — mini soap operas designed to be watched on your phone — have become one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment in the world. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oanh Ha spea...
26 Aug 20min
The Mormon Church’s Real Estate Empire
After amassing US land for more than a century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has recently started turning unused tracts into big suburban housing developments. On today’s Big Take p...
25 Aug 17min
