Big Take

Oil and Gas Made the University of Texas Rich. Can Green Energy Make It Richer?

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With more than $50 billion under management, Harvard has the largest college endowment in the United States. But the University of Texas is not far be...

After US-Japan Trade Deal, What’s Next in Trump’s Trade War

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Zoellick and Mike Froman spent years crisscrossing the globe as US Trade Representatives for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, respectively. They h...

Trump’s Tariffs Force Europe to Rethink Ties With China

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, top European Union leaders are traveling to Beijing for a high-level summit which could set the tone for the relationship between the EU an...

What Worries Former Pentagon Chief Robert Gates

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over many decades of public service, Robert Gates has served as secretary of defense for two presidents and the director of the CIA.On today’s B...

Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams didn't run in the Democratic primary. But he'll be on the ballot in November, running as an independent against Zohran ...

How Locked Shelves Broke Shopping

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve been to a store like CVS, Walgreens or Target in the last few years, you may have noticed a trend: more and more essentials are locked...

What Is Jane Street? And Why Are Regulators Watching It?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Street is one of Wall Street’s most profitable and secretive firms. And when Indian regulators accused it of market manipulation earlier th...

Murder on Rainbow Mountain

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At over 16,000 feet, Peru’s Rainbow Mountain is hard to reach — and its bright colors are hard to miss on social media. After a community ...

The Leaked Phone Call that Plunged Thailand Into Crisis

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A leaked phone call between Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodia's Hun Sen has ignited a significant political crisis in Thai...

How Copper Tariffs Affect Everything You Touch

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, President Trump sent markets into a tizzy, when he proposed tariffs on one of the world’s most valuable commodities: Copper.  On...

America’s Flood Mitigation Math Problem

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s Big Take podcast, we examine what the disaster in Kerr County, Texas reveals about the growing risk of flooding across the country as...

Wall Street Banks Are Battling for Japan’s Top Young Talent

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Japan’s hottest banking talent is in high demand as Wall Street goes all out to woo new hires with fancy dinners, strong-arm tactics and higher ...

OPEC+ Makes a Big Bet on Oil Demand

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OPEC+, a coalition of some of the world’s top oil producers, surprised markets over the weekend with plans to boost production by more than half...

China's Plans to Make AI a Utility

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a remote part of China's northwestern Xinjiang region, dozens of data centers rise from the desert. A Bloomberg analysis of investor and tax docume...

The White House Wanted ‘90 Deals in 90 Days.’ There’s One Day Left

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In late April, shortly after President Trump’s announcement of sweeping reciprocal tariffs sent markets reeling, the White House announced a 90-...

A Farewell to an American Icon: The Penny

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, the penny has cost more to produce than it’s worth. Now, the US government is finally stopping production of the one-cent coin for ...

With Tax Bill, Trump Ushers in New Era of Executive Power

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After weeks of legislative wrangling, the House passed President Trump’s signature tax bill, sending it to his desk just before his July 4 deadl...

The Great Car Buying Bonanza Is (Probably) Over

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The auto sector saw buyers race to dealerships after President Trump announced 25% tariffs on car imports and parts from outside the US. And according...

The American Toymaker Suing Trump Over Destructive Tariffs

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump’s trade war has thrown American businesses, which source everything from aircraft parts to baby strollers from China, into chaos. Now some...

Cruises Are So Back — And Straining Port Cities

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The cruise industry is an outlier right now. Even as US summer travel is down, cruise companies are setting sail with record numbers of passengers thi...

For $10 Billion Dollars, the Lakers' Buss Family Steps Off the Court

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Late last week, the Buss family, longtime owners of the Los Angeles Lakers, announced that they would sell the franchise for a record-breaking $10 bil...

Gap's Quest to Stay Cool Just Hit Its Latest Roadblock: Tariffs

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the start of 2025, Gap was cool again. The legacy American brand had started to turn around sales and rebuild its image. It was in the middle of a ...

Where the China-Iran Relationship Goes From Here

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China is Iran’s biggest trading partner, and sources about 14% of its oil from the country. Between China’s economic relationship with Ira...

Lead Negotiator of Previous Iran Deal on the Odds of Another

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump lashed out at Iran and Israel today over concerns that a ceasefire between the two was already breaking down. But going from a fragile...

There’s War in the Middle East. Why Are Oil Prices Falling?

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The conventional wisdom used to be that war in the Middle East would send oil prices soaring. Not anymore.On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg...

What’s Next for Iran, Israel and the US

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The United States conducted airstrikes on three of Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend, marking a dramatic escalation of the US’s involv...

President Trump’s 12 Billion Dollar Tourism Wipeout

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Global tariff wars, multi-country travel bans, detentions and phone-seizures at the border. President Trump’s “America first” polici...

Doing the Math on Trump’s Tax Bill

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the debate about President Trump’s tax bill — known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — plays out among lawmakers in Wa...

How China Is Building a Powerful Army of Hackers

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Teams from China used to dominate international hacking competitions, until Beijing ordered them to stop attending and take part only in domestic tour...

Why Trump Ditched the G-7 Summit

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump was in Canada this week for the Group of Seven summit. But after dinner on Monday night, Trump left early, citing the conflict in the ...

Where Does the Israel-Iran Conflict Go From Here?

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conflict between Iran and Israel has been simmering for decades — but escalated rapidly in the last few days after Israel bombed key nuclear fac...

Live from Hong Kong: Why China Can Afford to Wait for a Deal, and the US Can’t

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the Big Take, we bring you a new episode of Trumponomics, straight from the live stage at Bloomberg’s Hong Kong Invest conference. Step...

Bloomberg’s Interview With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of next week’s G-7 Summit in Calgary, Canada, Bloomberg Weekend Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain sat down for an exclusive interview with Bri...

Everything We Know About the Air India Crash

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moments after taking off, an Air India flight bound for London from an airport in Western India crashed with over 200 passengers on board. Hundreds ha...

Fed Chair Scott Bessent? The Race to Replace Jay Powell

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump says his decision on who will succeed Fed Chair Jerome Powell “is coming out very soon.” And according to new reporting fr...

The US and China’s High-Stakes Diplomacy

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Representatives for the US and China are in London this week trying to hammer out a potential trade deal. But with US access to China’s rare-ear...

What Happens Next in Los Angeles?

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the Big Take, Bloomberg national immigration reporter Alicia Caldwell joins host David Gura from Los Angeles to discuss the protests over ICE...

The New Economics of Broadway

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Broadway has always been a high-risk, high-reward kind of business — but with costs to mount a production higher than ever, producers are leanin...

Looking for a Job? The World Desperately Needs Engineers

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a vital puzzle piece missing as rich nations aim to transform their electricity grids for the AI age: millions of skilled engineers.On today&r...

What’s Driving Europe’s Political Shift to the Right?

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poland’s election of a Trump-backed conservative nationalist president early this week is part of a larger shift to the right across the Europea...

Nintendo's Big Bet on Switch 2

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Nintendo Switch has generated some $100 billion in sales for the Japanese gaming giant since its launch in 2017, propelling the company’s sh...

A Turning Point in Trump’s Trade War

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re more than halfway through the 90-day pause on President Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs. That three-month delay was supposed to ...

The Dollar’s Dominance is Unwinding in Asia

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Donald Trump tries to remake global trade, the dollar’s historic dominance in Asia is under pressure. After Taiwan’s currency saw the b...

Where to Go If You Need a CEO

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, General Electric — the conglomerate known for making everything from trains to microwaves — was also known for churning out e...

The Financial Stakes of Trump’s Attacks on Harvard

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump administration has ramped up its attacks on Harvard University — threatening its tax-exempt status, federal funding and its ability to...

The MAGA-ification of Mark Zuckerberg

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been going through a bit of a MAGA rebrand, complete with a new look — gold chains, grown-out hair, custom boxy, bl...

They Bought Dream Homes in Tulum. Then Came the Nightmare

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tulum, Mexico has exploded in popularity since the early years of the pandemic. The area’s few Covid restrictions, picturesque beaches and laidb...

Are Current Beauty Trends Recession Indicators? It’s Complicated.

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2001, it was lipstick. After the 2008 financial crisis, it was DIY haircuts. In times of economic turmoil, consumers tend to change the way they sp...

Who Is the Mysterious Founder of China’s DeepSeek?

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the global hype around China’s DeepSeek, very little is known about the man behind it – Liang Wenfeng. On today's Big Take Asia Po...

At 83, Media Mogul Barry Diller Is Ready to Tell His Story

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After decades in the public eye, 83-year-old media mogul and Fox co-founder Barry Diller is finally ready to tell his story.  On today’s Bi...

Bloomberg’s Elon Musk Interview

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On stage at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday, editor at large for Bloomberg Weekend Mishal Husain conducted a nearly 40-minute, wide-ranging interv...

Did Apple Sleep Through the AI Revolution?

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past year, Apple has pulled out all the stops to tout shiny new AI tools: from big presentations at its Worldwide Developers Conference to ad...

What It Takes to Negotiate With China

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As of this week, the trade war between the US and China is on pause, with both sides hoping to agree on a new trade deal by early August. But question...

President Trump’s Plans to Monetize the Middle East

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump is wrapping a whirlwind trip to the Middle East — complete with a flurry of proposed investment deals , controversial gifts and ...

Small Towns Are Getting Hooked on ICE Detention

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Like a growing number of US communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking immigrants up. A lucrativ...

How India and Pakistan Averted War

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, India and Pakistan saw the worst fighting in half a century — and came close to an all-out war. But the conflict came to an uneasy an...

Is the US-China Trade War Over?

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a stunning turn of events, the US and China announced a dramatic reduction in tariffs, which President Trump portrayed as a “total reset&rdqu...

What's Behind the World's Matcha Shortage

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Japan has a matcha shortage despite record levels of production. Shops are selling out of the green tea powder as soon as they hit the shelves. On tod...

Big Tech Is on Trial. What That Means for the Future of the Internet

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google has lost two antitrust cases in the past year; Meta is currently in court over alleged anti-competitive behavior. Big Tech is in a moment of re...

Telemarketers’ New Trick to Sell Bare-Bones Health Plans

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A few years ago, a former sitcom writer came up with a weird way to sell Americans cheap health plans, using a loophole in the Affordable Care Act. Mo...

How a CEO’s Faked Results Led to a $300 Million Wipeout

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In late 2018, five years after launching fish-feeding company eFishery, Gibran Huzaifah found himself all out of cash. To save his business, the CEO s...

Warren Buffett Passes the Baton

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Warren Buffett shocked shareholders when he announced he’d be stepping down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. The 94-year-old business giant had bee...

Your Morning Commute Could Get Way Worse

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US government stepped in with aid to keep mass transit agencies afloat. But that money is running out and ...

Earnings Are In. Companies Can’t Hide From Tariffs Anymore

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One month after Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, Q1 earnings reports for a range of US companies are in.  On today’s epi...

How Goldman Sachs Is Thinking About Tariffs

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The uncertainty caused by Trump’s tariff policies has been spooking business leaders and roiling the markets. And according to Goldman Sachs CEO...

What a Liberal Victory Means for Canada and the Trade War

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In electing Mark Carney as prime minister, Canadians have given him and the Liberal Party a mandate. But it was a narrow victory — one that will...

Inside Trump’s First 100 Days

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump will celebrate 100 days back in office this week. The milestone comes amid a US-China trade war, ongoing conflict overseas and high-st...

Top Colleges Are Too Costly — Even for Parents Making $300K

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tuition at US colleges and universities is higher than ever. But an exclusive new Bloomberg analysis reveals that the cost of a four-year degree is pa...

The Americans With Disabilities Making Under Minimum Wage

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, workers, disability advocates and employers have debated a program called 14(c), a section of employment law that lets companies pay cert...

How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting Global Economic Growth

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The International Monetary Fund released a forecast this week projecting that global GDP will grow just 2.8% — down half a percentage point sinc...

The Chinese Toy Company Defying the Trade War

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese toy company Pop Mart is one of the hottest stocks this year thanks to the wild popularity of its Labubu dolls and other blind box toys. On tod...

Can Trump Tell Powell ‘You’re Fired'?

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just keep coming. Today on the Big Take, Bloomberg’s Michael McKee and Sa...

The Vibes Are Off. But Is It a Recession?

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid tariff whiplash, renewed inflation concerns and turbulence in financial markets, Americans are left wondering: Do the economic vibes match our ec...

Who Will Blink First in the US-China Trade War?

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the trade war between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping continues to escalate, economists around the world are asking who will blink first. On today&rsqu...

A Rubber Company Supplying Top Tiremakers Faces Troubling Accusations

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For years, a rubber and palm oil company that supplies some of the world’s top tiremakers has been dogged by allegations of sexual coercion at i...

Inside the Explosive Feud That Rocked Singapore’s Richest Family

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, Singapore’s Kwek family, owners of one of the city’s biggest developers, looked to be the model of a successful family-run bu...

America Is Pumping The Brakes On EVs. GM Is Doubling Down.

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a tough year for electric vehicles: Since President Trump took office for a second term, the US has started a complete 180 on its inve...

Forget the S&P or CPI. Meet the Bacon Egg and Cheese Index

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to measuring economic pain, the cost of a humble breakfast sandwich might not be top of mind. But Bloomberg has an index that tracks the...

What a Trade War Means for Your Money

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a bewildering time for retail investors trying to make sense of global markets. In the week since President Trump unveiled sweeping ta...

What the Heck Just Happened in the Bond Market?

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a rollercoaster of a week for global markets. As President Trump goes back and forth about the size and scope of his tariffs, Bloomber...

Why Asia Was Hit Hardest by Trump’s Tariff Onslaught

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

US President Donald Trump shocked the world -- and global markets -- with tariffs that exceeded expectations last week. But there was one region that ...

The Trump Trade War’s First Casualty? The Bull Market

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a volatile few days across global markets.  As the equity sell-off has deepened, a growing number of market strategists have revised do...

DNA and Bankruptcy Collide With 23andMe

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, after years of slowing sales, legal trouble, and a declining stock price. And now, ...

Trump Announces Sweeping New Tariffs. What’s Next

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump announced the steepest American tariffs in more than a century, with a 10% tariff on all exporters to the US and even higher duties on some 60 n...

As India’s Stock Market Surged, So Did Investment Scams

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

India’s historic stock market surge sparked a retail-investing frenzy that minted millionaires. But the boom also became a breeding ground for f...

Princeton’s President Responds to Attacks on Higher Education

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump administration is targeting higher education. Colleges and universities across the United States are faced with the threat of funding freeze...

What We Know About Trump’s Planned Tariffs

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Donald Trump is calling April 2nd “Liberation Day” — that’s when the president says the world can expect the biggest...

Levittown Episode 6: Warp Speed

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the series finale, our reporters try to crack the secretive companies behind nudify apps that let users create deepfakes in minutes. And a new case...

Levittown Episode 5: The Vigilantes

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kayla faces down her harasser in court. In New Zealand, an investigator summons a global army of hackers.   Levittown is a real-life horror story...

Levittown Episode 4: 'How Is That Not Illegal'

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An arrest in Levittown kicks off the next phase of an investigation. The central question for the prosecutors is: Is any of this a crime? And they&rsq...

They Bought Dream Homes in Tulum. Then Came the Nightmare

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tulum, Mexico has exploded in popularity since the early years of the pandemic. The area’s few Covid restrictions, picturesque beaches and laidb...

Elizabeth Warren Wants Democrats to Fight

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been shaping US policy for years. She helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the 2008 financial cri...

Private Equity’s New Pitch: Investing Your 401(k)

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Private equity is looking for new ways to raise capital. The industry has its eye on a  $12 trillion piece of America’s retirement market. ...

Googling in the ChatGPT Era

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Search is the most lucrative part of Google’s business. So when ChatGPT launched in 2022 and offered to answer users’ every question, it p...

Levittown Episode 3: The Hunter

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not just Levittown. The website hosting the doctored photos is the nexus of campaigns to harass women across the world. A victim in New Zea...

Levittown Episode 2: ‘I’m Also on the Website’

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Months after Kayla’s discovery, dozens of women in Levittown, a New York suburb on Long Island, learn they, too, are subjects of faked porn. Mos...

Levittown Episode 1: Me... But Not Me

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW DESCRIPTION New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website...

Another Space-Obsessed Billionaire Has Entered the Chat

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The International Space Station’s time in the stars will soon come to an end. NASA has said that the ISS is scheduled to be decommissioned in 20...

The World Is Paying for Trump’s China Tariffs

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trump's tariffs on China are causing a lot of pain around the world. Products that would've gone to the US are now pouring into other countries, leadi...

Decoding the Fed With Randy Quarles

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a busy week for the Federal Reserve, between Trump’s nomination of a new vice chair for supervision on Monday and an anticipated rate...