West africa, the organization builds teaching hospitals, tends to the sick and reforms entire health care systems. Today partners in health makes 800. Thousand home visits per year. It provides checkups to a million women around the world. The goal, making sure whether we live or die is not turn on how much we have. On todays bloomberg Big Decisions , dr. Paul farmer. Welcome to blue berke bates decisions welcome to bloomberg Big Decisions. You have a career dedicated to charity and medical science paired which came first . Dr. Farmer probably charity. When i was a kid i thought i wanted to be a doctor. We did not have doctors in the family and i had never been to a doctor but i had this idea, probably from television. The charity part was something i learned from my parents who had limited means at a large family, but were involved in charity. My father, particular, was interested in what, in that day, was called retarded people are retarded citizens. And he drags all of his kids into
Washington. The fed signals it plans to rosalind the fed signals it plans to remain on pause. The consensus is no need for a rate move next year either. She said theres still risks to the downside, but they have lessened. Rosalind the worlds biggest ipo opens with a bang. Some major banks announced changes and cutbacks. They have to meet the ir efficiency targets they set. Rosalind the eu unveils a plan to go green that has some businesses seeing red. You see there is. Pushback. Taxation does nothing for the environment. Rosalind its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Rosalind hello and welcome. Im Rosalind Chin and this is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with the day by day look at the top headlines. Another week began without a trade deal between the u. S. And china, and fresh data releases d on the weekend showed the trade balance shifting between the two superp
Now, georgescu has a new mission. Having seen the worst socialism has to offer and what capitalism at its best can mean for those in need, hes urging corporations to return to pursuing the best for all their stakeholders shareholders, workers, customers and society at large. On todays big decisions, Peter Georgescu. Welcome to bloomberg big decisions. Great to have you here. Socialism these days. It strikes me you have a personal experience with socialism going way back in your childhood. Tell us about it. Peter well, i was prepared for socialism by being born in just as the Second World War started and i arrived in 1939 just as the war got to be big and real. I was born from romanian parents, both of them, one educated in london. My father became a petroleum engineer, came to romania, became general manager of the Largest Oil Field in romania which is owned by standard oil in new jersey. Exxon. The germans came into romania and the nazi supervising regime put him in jail. My father wo
David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of an interviewer even though i had a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Before we get into blackstone, i would like to talk about a couple of other things. You grew up in a middleclass environment in philadelphia, and now you are one of the wealthiest men in the world and one of the biggest philanthropists in the world. The last three president s have asked your advice on things. And you are very close to President Trump. When you were growing up in philadelphia, did you ever imagine this could happen . Steve no. Dave do you pinch yourself every day when you think about where you have achieved your status in life . Steve every day is an adventure, and every day is a privilege. David you have come to know President Trump quite well in recent years. Did you know him before he was president . Ste
He wants facebook and google to peak when lawyer s it comes to tracking user data. And later, bill gates on how being seriously hampered by u. S. China trade tensions. His comments from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. But we begin this hour with apple. The company made news on two fronts this week. The first president trumps visit wednesday to apples austin, texas factory. Cook at the president to discuss keeping macs and iphones free from tariffs. The other news involved the way apple tests software. It is changing after a series of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad operating system. Mark gurman and tom forte kicked off the conversation thursday. So, basically apples ios , software has been bugging the past few years. This particular release cycle, catalina, it mac os has been especially buggy. What apple is doing is going to make it so that engineers, earlier in the process, can determine what is working in order to hopefully come up with a much more stable operating system whe