Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What did Maria Corina Machado present to President Trump?
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met today with President Trump at the White House and she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to the president. Here is Machado speaking earlier to reporters.
I presented the president of the United States the medal. 200 years ago, General Lafayette... gave Simon Bolivar a medal as a sign of the brotherhood between the United States, people of the United States and the people of Venezuela in their fight for freedom against tyranny.
That is Maria Carino Machado, the opposition leader of Venezuela. And she went on to say that Venezuelans are counting on President Trump for the country's freedom. The meeting comes as U.S.
Chapter 3: How does the US-Taiwan trade deal affect tariffs and investments?
forces seized a sixth oil tanker near Venezuela earlier today. The U.S. and Taiwan have agreed to a trade deal. It will lower tariffs to 15 percent from the previous 20 percent, and U.S.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Taiwan's semiconductor investments in the US?
tariffs on goods from Taiwan are now on par with both Japan and South Korea. Also, as a part of this deal, Taiwan's semiconductor companies will make at least $250 billion in direct investments toward American energy and artificial intelligence operations. Here is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard.
It's been a top priority for officials there in Taipei, but also here in Washington, because Taiwan is such a crucial source of the chips that go into artificial intelligence and AI data centers across the U.S. and around the world. And they wanted to make sure they get this locked into place and that they can have some assurance that supply lines to the island are really in a good place.
That is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard.
Chapter 5: How is China impacting high-frequency trading in the US?
China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders. We are told commodity futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those ordering local brokerage firms to shift their servers for clients out of data centers run by the exchanges. Now, this change will affect the speed advantage for high-frequency firms, including Citadel, Chain Street and Jump Trading.
Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan is being investigated after she organized and appeared in a video with other Democrats urging military service members to resist illegal orders. Slotkin said the office of the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., run by Jeanine Pirro, reached out asking to interview her.
Now, this brings the number of lawmakers who have publicly confirmed contact with federal prosecutors to five. Here is Slotkin.
Senator Mark Kelly, who's being investigated on the military side, is now countersuing Secretary Hegseth. I think, look, there's congressional action that we can take from the Judiciary Committee. We're going through the whole laundry list of things that we can do.
But ultimately, I think there has to be pushback on these frivolous, politicized lawsuits, or else they're just going to continue, get bigger, and affect a bigger number of people.
That is Michigan Senator Alyssa Slotkin speaking earlier to Bloomberg's balance of power. By the way, President Trump and his aides have labeled this video as seditious. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is not interested in becoming Fed chair. He told that to David Rubenstein during a U.S.
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Chapter 6: What health care reforms is President Trump proposing?
Chamber of Commerce event. Dimon also reflected on JPMorgan's new headquarters in New York City.
If you look at what we have, we spend $40 billion a year on people, which is important, $4 billion a year on real estate. We want to have great real estate. The old building wasn't fit for purpose. It was too small, couldn't handle our trading floors. I looked everywhere. I looked downtown. I looked at Hudson Yards. I looked at buying Vanderbilt. But we could tear that building down.
We could buy Air Rights. I thought it was the best location and the best city.
Chapter 7: How will the Great Health Care Plan affect drug prices and insurance premiums?
And then we should build it there. We're quite happy we did. It's beautiful.
You can catch the entire interview with Jamie Dimon on the David Rubenstein show, Peer to Peer Conversations. It airs January 21st, 9 p.m. Wall Street time on Bloomberg Television. New York City is suing the food delivery technology provider Motoclick for withholding pay from workers.
The city says Motoclick failed to pay the required minimum rate and the company deducted canceled and refunded orders directly from workers' paychecks. Here is New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
City Hall does not desire to have an adversarial relationship with any business operating in our city. We cannot tell the story of the city without also telling the story of business. To those, however, who think they can make a profit while stealing from their workers, while breaking the law, make no mistake, we will have those workers' backs each and every time.
New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. President Trump is asking Congress to pass legislation to implement health care reforms aimed at lowering drug prices and insurance premiums. That story from Bloomberg's Amy Morris in Washington.
The Trump plan calls for codifying voluntary deals with drug makers to lower some prices and make more medicines available over the counter, as well as sending subsidies directly to consumers to buy health insurance. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt.
The Great Health Care Plan will fund a cost-sharing reduction program for health care plans which will save taxpayers at least $36 billion and reduce the most common Obamacare plan premiums by over 10 percent, and that's according to to the Congressional Budget Office.
The move by the White House aims to address a political liability, health care, ahead of the midterms. In Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.
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