for the price when it comes to strategy and revenue growth growing with customers and volumes is the right picture. brags it probably the most unwise decision for decades. ramy: willie divided willie divided government have an effect on markets will a divided government have an impact on markets? bit think you have a little more of a mixed message in their. we have an atmosphere in washington is not good. ramy: it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. hello and welcome. i am ramy inocencio and this is bloomberg best. your weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, and interviews around the world. let s start with a day by day look at headlines. on monday, china opened its first international import fair in shanghai. investors watched closely for in xito the trade issues jinping s address. xi jinping is promising further tax cuts on imports to affect trade imbalances. this will be at the import expo in shanghai for calling on inclusive risk
the price when it comes to strategy, revenue growth. customers and volumes is the right thing to do. it is probably the most unwise business decision in decades. ramy: will a divided u.s. government have an impact on markets? investors size of political developments. up political developments. this will not have a big impact on washington or who we are. he got more of a mixed message. we have an atmosphere in washington it is not good and you can t change that overnight. ramy: that is all ahead on bloomberg best. ramy: hello and welcome. yours bloomberg best, weekly review of business, news, analysis from bloomberg television around the world. let s start with a look at the top headlines. opened itschina first international import fair in shanghai. chinese president xi jinping, sink tax cuts on imports in efforts to decrease trade imbalances. growth.d for inclusive in a world of deepening economic cooperation, practices like the law of the jungle and wi
at the end of the day, we are here to make a difference for the people that we represented. a think it is important that you have to work with folks on both sides of the aisle. on some of the bigger issues of the day you see some dysfunction. day in and day out you see opportunities in illinois where both republicans and democrats were together to try to get something done. the bill you just mentioned, the opioid bill where we allow people to get a medical marijuana card is a piece of legislation that is a bipartisan piece of legislation advocated by high ranking democrats and the general assembly and signed by a republican governor. you have a good amount of republican cosponsors. we try to find ways to work together but i think we are no difference different than washington. since 2015,served how long do you plan to serve in state politics? i will notl people, serve in this job forever. i enjoy what i do right now. i am wrapping up my first full term. my second term overa
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audience members please turn off your cell phones now. everybody take a second to make sure your cell phone is off. so we have two wonderful boston globe columnist here, kevin cole in in your penitentiary, and we asked him if he would like to attend but when the phone didn t ring we knew it was him. [laughter] shelley and i have covered, first of all, shelley grew up in dorchester very close to the south boston line. she went to south boston high. my entire maternal side is in south boston so we would have grown up knowing, learning about whitey bulger by osmosis. everybody where we grew up where we were from knew he was a hoodlum, a and a very dangerous guy. approximate the same time the different newspapers, we were paying attention to him and writing about him. and, obviously, what really made whitey just a remarkable story is while he was the most powerful gangster in boston his brother that was the most powerful politician in massachusetts. he was the long serving, lon