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Listen to the most interesting reporting from this week in the world of business, finance, tech, and politics. Over the weekend, we'll share a mix of essays, reviews and other stories from Bloomberg's new Weekend Edition.
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Listen to the most interesting reporting from this week in the world of business, finance, tech, and politics. Over the weekend, we'll share a mix of essays, reviews and other stories from Bloomberg's new Weekend Edition.
Language:
English
Episodes
In Defense of Cheating at Golf
8/3/2025
Bending the rules for beginners could make game play fairer, and faster.
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Duration:00:06:52
What Happens When AI Schemes Against Us
8/2/2025
Models are getting better at winning, but not necessarily at following the rules
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Duration:00:11:36
Gwyneth Paltrow Has Always Been Selling What Money Can't Buy
8/1/2025
In a new book, Amy Odell writes that the actress and businesswoman used her fame “to commodify her taste and lifestyle, and sell it back to us."
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Duration:00:08:52
Have We Finally Reached Peak Doodle?
7/30/2025
Doodles—labradoodles, goldendoodles, bernedoodles—are everywhere. They’re now also a high-stakes, billion-dollar business. By Allie Conti
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Duration:00:21:17
Luke Farritor Goes to Washington
7/28/2025
He could have been an artist, or a builder or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing. By Susan Berfield, Margi Murphy & Jason Leopold
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Duration:00:54:59
Japan’s Newest Theme Park Is on the Front Line of the US-China Rivalry
7/27/2025
Junglia is less than an hour’s drive from US military bases where marines train for jungle warfare.
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Duration:00:07:15
India Is Turning to 'Financial Astrology' for Stock Tips
7/26/2025
An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry.
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Duration:00:08:03
She Gave Away Her Inheritance. Now What?
7/25/2025
For Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn, exiting the 1% is about more than just money.
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Duration:00:08:35
Inside America’s North Korean Workforce
7/24/2025
Each year, thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with hundreds of millions in wages from blue-chip IT jobs. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s American pawns tells all. By Evan Ratliff
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Duration:00:50:30
Inside America’s North Korean Workforce
7/23/2025
Each year, thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with hundreds of millions in wages from blue-chip IT jobs. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s American pawns tells all. By Evan Ratliff
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Duration:00:50:22
Someday We’ll All Love Ocean Vuong
7/20/2025
Fresh off a tour for his second novel, the author is learning to live with being seen as a translator of the immigrant experience.
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Duration:00:16:33
Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?
7/19/2025
The history of nutrition science in the US suggests that MAHA would make more sense without the ‘A.’
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Duration:00:12:58
What Scientists Learned Scanning The Bodies of 100,000 Brits
7/18/2025
A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold.
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Duration:00:06:16
Hims Won't Let Go of Its Wonder Drug
7/14/2025
The shape-shifting telehealth company has spent the past year trying to cash in on GLP-1s, the hottest drug to hit weight loss in decades. It could all slip away. By Madison Muller and Devin Leonard
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Duration:00:38:17
Why the US's New Shipbuilding Strategy Is Unlikely to Work
7/13/2025
To succeed, Washington will need to look outward not inward.
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Duration:00:13:52
My Year of Aging Dangerously
7/12/2025
A quest for eternal vigor led to less drinking, more exercise and an epiphany about learning to let go.
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Duration:00:08:44
How American Universities Became So Vulnerable to Government Threats
7/11/2025
Military and medical science brought federal funding to campuses, but student tuition helped keep it there
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Duration:00:14:35
Pistachios Are Everywhere Right Now, Not Just in Dubai Chocolate
7/6/2025
Demand for the Instagram-friendly nuts have driven up margins for farmers.
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Duration:00:06:35
What Fine Dining Looks Like With Absolutely No Plastic
7/5/2025
A Washington DC chef is working to banish plastic from his restaurant entirely.
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Duration:00:05:29
To Restore America, Start With Honor
7/4/2025
The author of The Idea That Is America explains how the US lost its moral footing.
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Duration:00:21:24