When a Small Town Gets a Big Data Center
The Hopeful Primitive Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, has been standing for two hundred years. Now, with a huge, private equity-backed data center coming to town, it will soon be surrounded b...
27 Feb 202516min
Xi Has Embraced China’s Tech Titans Once Again. Will It Last?
Four years after launching a regulatory crackdown that plunged the tech sector into turmoil, China’s President Xi Jinping sat down publicly with Alibaba Group’s co-founder Jack Ma, whose firm bore the...
26 Feb 202515min
Inside Walmart’s Next Chapter With CEO Doug McMillon
Doug McMillon has been running Walmart since 2014. He’s credited with pushing the company into the digital age and successfully steering it through the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he’s turning his attenti...
24 Feb 202516min
Why Eggs Are So Expensive Right Now
The price of eggs was up 15% in January, driving overall inflation higher. The cause? Bird flu. We’re joined by farmer Jim Hayes, as well as the hosts of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Joe Weisenthal a...
21 Feb 202516min
Undocumented Workers Helped Build Elon Musk’s Tesla Gigafactory
Over the last four-and-a-half years, the footprint of Elon Musk’s Texas business empire has undergone rapid expansion. It now includes SpaceX facilities and a sprawling Tesla gigafactory outside the s...
19 Feb 202519min
How Amazon Rival Temu Got Sucked Into Trump’s Trade War
Since its US launch in 2022, Chinese marketplace Temu has rapidly risen to become America’s biggest e-commerce platform after Amazon, thanks to ultra-low prices on almost every product imaginable. On ...
18 Feb 202516min
How a Libertarian Island Experiment Became an $11 Billion Nightmare
Prospera is a city-state operated by a private company on the Honduran island of Roatan. It offers businesses single-digit tax rates and the ability to choose their own regulations. Its proponents hav...
17 Feb 202519min
It’s Not You. There’s a Dating Recession Happening Right Now
This Valentine’s Day, as many as 13 million more Americans are single than before the pandemic. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg reporter Ben Steverman shares what he’s learned about the cause ...
14 Feb 202515min
