Recognize that the shortterm in china kind of remains with policy adjustments, but theyre borrowing from their future. Jason more on that conversation later on. Lets begin with the cover story. Its all about General Motors. The ceo is eyeing a tech future, but her most pressing issue right now, she has a lot of workers on strike. Carol . She does and thats one of the deep dives into wellknown Global Companies in this weeks issue. Heres joel weber. Joel maybe youve heard of them, going through a bit of a labor strike right now, with a strike for strike in 12 years. But theres a bigger story. Thats what our cover story is about. Jason why now . Better to be lucky than smart, maybe, but youre very smart to deep dive, but nobody saw this coming. Joel we did a couple weeks ago. But is not about the strike. It provides a convenient news hook. We talk about strategies a lot and this is a strategy, a ceo trying to pivot her business and her Business Model and staff up with engineers and softwa
Jason first up, a private equity takeover of the finance section. Carol i enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is this weeks cover story. Bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber 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, ho
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