On the u. S. China trade war. Steve theyre doing it as they 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 a
Megan murphy. The lead in the finance section is on bitcoin. We have been talking about the so much in the last week. Politics, i than think we have talked most about the coin. Over the past year, let alone several years, we have seen volatile moves and price. One of the things we want to show this is a staggering statistic. Less than 1000 people hold 40 of the worlds bitcoin. With the markets being as volatile as it is with the price , going up so much, some of the people we know, when one of these big owners, when they sell, it can cause an extreme drop in the price quickly because of the concentration of ownership in the hands of relatively few. What we are looking at with cryptocurrency, forget the broader debate about bitcoin. This is a real problem for the market transparency. This is a situation where people dont know who the owners of the who the owners of bitcoin are. It is exasperating that that authority there. Julia we are going to see exchanges like the cme introducing fut
Political corruption that exists in brazil. Tell us how you guys took decades of corruption and synthesized it into this really good piece. We wanted to show that even decades of corruption is actually sentries old in brazil and sort of deal back the layers as of the carwash scandal, which is this latest scandal thats been enveloping brazil. It takes us back to the president before her and its enveloping in the existing president and has the roots in the structure of brazil generally, one of the last countries in western america to have a monarchy that was departed in 1889. But if you go back that far and see the sequence of scandals they have grappled with, its a natural outgrowth of how the government was set up over not just decades, but centuries now. I think when de la rue set when rousseff was ousted, it brought a lot of hope that the carwash scandal was behind them. Thats not the case. When you are looking through this and when your reporters are assessing this, how do they figu
Political corruption that exists in brazil. Tell us how you guys took decades of corruption and synthesized it into this really good piece. We wanted to show that even decades of corruption is actually sentries old in brazil and sort of deal back the layers as of the carwash scandal, which is this latest scandal thats been enveloping brazil. It takes us back to the president before her and its enveloping in the existing president and has the roots in the structure of brazil generally, one of the last countries in western america to have a monarchy that was departed in 1889. But if you go back that far and see the sequence of scandals they have grappled with, its a natural outgrowth of how the government was set up over not just decades, but centuries now. I think when de la rue set when rousseff was ousted, it brought a lot of hope that the carwash scandal was behind them. Thats not the case. When you are looking through this and when your reporters are assessing this, how do they figu
Political corruption that exists in brazil. Tell us how you guys took decades of corruption and synthesized it into this really good piece. We wanted to show that even decades of corruption is actually sentries old in brazil and sort of deal back the layers as of the carwash scandal, which is this latest scandal thats been enveloping brazil. It takes us back to the president before her and its enveloping in the existing president and has the roots in the structure of brazil generally, one of the last countries in western america to have a monarchy that was departed in 1889. But if you go back that far and see the sequence of scandals they have grappled with, its a natural outgrowth of how the government was set up over not just decades, but centuries now. I think when de la rue set when rousseff was ousted, it brought a lot of hope that the carwash scandal was behind them. Thats not the case. When you are looking through this and when your reporters are assessing this, how do they figu