Section. Carol i enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is this weeks cover story. Bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber joint is now. Joins us now. Private equity touches us in so many ways. Joel we couldnt keep listening to jason go on and on. When we got together about the different ways private equity touches us, we realize there was a bigger story here, which was in the last decade, since the financial crisis, nobody won this decade as much as private equity. Jason now weve got questions and thats how this story shaped up. You posed them to a lot of us in the newsroom. Joel we realized there was a lot of different places we want to go. The fact d. C. Has carried interest. So far, thats bit untouchable. If things change in d. C. , we might see that change. Carol we did see lobbying in terms of private equity firms. They are spending tons of money. Joel tons of money. Also returns. Everyone wants big returns. A World Without yield anywhere, how do i get roi . Private equity promises th
Carol welcome to Bloomberg Businessweek. I am carol massar inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. This week, political troubles on both sides of the atlantic. A formal impeachment inquiry is opened on President Trump. Therefore today, i am announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Carol plus, a defiant Boris Johnson dragged back to parliament to explain why he broke the law. We take a look at what a hard brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. This is one of the hallmarks of businessweek, these strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keep
Dragged back to parliament to explain why he broke the law. We take a look at what a hard brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. This is one of the hallmarks thesesiness week, strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keeps going up under the ceo. In the past six months, he has really doubled down on tech. Carol that is something that i did not realize. He has made a bunch of acquisitions in ai, Voice Recognition technologies. Earlier this month was his latest. What we are seeing is mcdonalds transitioning from being a Fast Food Company to looking more and more like a tech company. There are c
We take a look at what a hard brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. This is one of the hallmarks of businessweek, these strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keeps going up under the ceo. In the past six months, he has really doubled down on tech. Carol that is something that i did not realize. He has made a bunch of acquisitions in ai, Voice Recognition technologies. Earlier this month was his latest. What we are seeing is mcdonalds transitioning from being a Fast Food Company to looking more and more like a tech company. There are cameras at drivethrough that can scan your license plate
Highprofile alumni who continue to shape the Business Community including Morgan Stanley chairman and ceo james gorman. Im very surprised at where rates are. Id expect by the end of the year, the 10 year would be 3 . I was dead wrong. Jason we will hear more from james gorman in other chats and many topics are also covered in this weeks issue. Carol that included a top story, the u. S. China trade war. As goodwill lifted financial markets, financial editor peter coy warns of consequences. Peter in a way, it is as if the u. S. And china seem intent on dividing the world into two separate spheres, which is really globalization in reverse, and to use a more recent analogy, it is more like the period after world war ii and the cold war when there was a soviet bloc and the western countries. And not doing very much commerce with each other. Very separate, and that was not good for prosperity for anyone, and risk is we will go that way now. Carol we have smart conversations at the Columbia B