Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014, and you had spent 22 years at the nba offices before that. Before that, you were a graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination Duke University and the university of chicago law school, right . [laughter] adam which you happened to go to as well. David right. So you cannot do any better than that. Lets start with the nba today and how it is doing. Honestly, since you have been commissioner, revenues are up. Ticket sales are up. The owners value of their teams is up by about three times. So are you adequately paid for the job youre doing, do you think . [laughter] today, the nba seems to be at its peak. Right now, it is very popular all over the world. Why do you think it is that nba basketball is so popu
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 and maybe even remember what
You cant trade this stuff right now. Fundamentally, i dont think it centers a whole lot around he policy war. You almost have to ignore it and keep investing the way you would. We are focused on the fed, we are focused on the underlying fundamentals. For me, trade is the big thing. Tariffs. The trade deal with china, the negative Interest Rates affecting the markets. What the market is focusing on still, they would like to see some sort of resolution on trade. That will be important. Jonathan joining me around the table in new york city is george rusnak, Michael Collins, plus Luke Hickmore. Luke, i want to begin with you, it is something ive heard all week. I want to focus on the policy and not the politics. It hasnt stopped anybody trying to work out what the politics means for policy. Have you been thinking about hat this week . Luke the thing that worries me is our experience of politics over here in the u. K. Is, the messier they get, the more risk it puts in the general economy. W
Journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014, and you had spent 22 years at the nba offices before that. Before that, you were a graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination Duke University and the university of chicago law school, right . [laughter] adam which you happened to go to as well. David right. Right. So you cannot do any better than that. Lets start with the nba today and how it is doing. Honestly, since you have been commissioner, revenues are up. Ticket sales are up. The owners value of their teams is up by about three times. So are you adequately paid for the job youre doing, do you think . [laughter] david today, the nba seems to be at a peak. Right now, it is very popular all over the world. Why do you think it is th
And joins us from on board the hornet. Reporter the festivities are just about to begin here on the uss hornet. A lot of these people have not talked about 50 years it turns out it takes a whole village to pull this off and get those astronauts to the moon its estimated at 400,000 people worked all across the country on the apollo 11 mission. Some of them right here in the bay area. To understand why nasa chose to touch down on this particular spot on the moon in a place known as the sea of tranquility and why it designed the lunar lander the way that it did, we have to go deep deep into the bowels of the nasa Research Center in Mountain View and into one of the worlds premier hyper velocity impact testing sites. Welcome to the ranger. Reporter charles is the facility manager and explains the device built in 1966 is basically a gun range on steroids. We use this gun to shoot at targets and a blue chamber. A very high speeds to simulate what happens when meteors and asteroids impact a p