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>> we are they headquarters in new york or a >> this weeks issue come online and understand. rnc identity crisis. >> redefining insider trading. >> all of that ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ leader with the editor-in-chief of bloomberg businessweek. what's the company industry section, you guys talk about mr. fix it in the auto industry. now, he has to fix mitsubishi. >> he first picked -- fixed rent , and nownissan
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mitsubishi with fixing their admission standards correctly. he has been brought in to try to help fix that. it is all because nissan has invested in mitsubishi motors. >> makes him so good at doing this? >> the picture that you have with him, he looks like wolverine. >> he does. i bet you he will like the picture. in france, they called him across killer. he knows how to cut costs, how to make auto industries, auto companies working together share platforms, etc. he knows how to do it for less. looking at venture capital, let a circle's, no surprise the internet is a subject of a lot of venture capital investment. what can we take away? >> my favorite part is it looked at the recipients of venture capital and where they went to school. the most prevalent was dropping
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out of school. you have a lot of entrepreneurs who are taking the advice of some of the people on silicon valley, peter thiel among them, saying you don't need to go to college. not a big surprise, the next most popular school was stanford. in the backyard. >> interesting, all the students go to schools, racking up all of the student debt, ultimately, you don't have to go to college. >> if you are very smart. that is a lesson. carol: in the global economic session, you talked about puerto rico with a lot of problems. there is more than easter be done. they had to fix their economy. >> they do. the problem is they don't have an economy. they relied heavily for a while on the pharma industry. a lot of pharma companies wanted to do business there because there were tax advantages. longerax advantages no exist. the pharma companies over time have left. they have also attracted finance people because they have tax advantages for finance people.
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that has created resentment because people live there don't have the same advantages. it is what is puerto rico going to be able to live on? >> pharma companies have left, a lot of people have left. >> one of the stats we have is the rate at which doctors are leaving. it is a lot of doctors leaving. of course, they are all citizens of the u.s.. all they have to do is get on a plane. david: no passport needed. the cover story, the head of the republican national committee is facing a tough task, uniting this party line presented nominee donald trump. >> at first, there was a lot of speculation whether the party would reunite behind trump. the job to figure out how to make that happen. david: the reporter who wrote that piece, josh green. >> initially, the worry is that trump would get beaten and go awol and run a third-party bid. all of these professions of loyalty were originally meant to cap trump in the fold. what has happened instead as he is locked up the nomination and now is turned to consolidate the
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party. it has fallen to previous and the gop establishment costs who had wanted a different nominee to come together and try to keep everybody on board. >> it is interesting, too. when he came on board to help reshape the republican party after mitt romney lost, what has changed in terms of the vision, the core of the republican party since he took over until today? vision, i think it was a smart one beard after romney lost, there were all sorts of her criminal nation's and backstabbing -- recriminations and backstabbing. he very responsibly one out and took people and did a big study of all that had gone down. the so-called republican autopsy. also looked at how the party ought to refashion itself and be able to compete in the 21st century. the conclusion they came to is that the party needs to soft and its tone and moderate. change the primary calendar a
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little bit. make an effort to attract nonwhite voters, women, and minorities. i think the anguish that a lot of republican elected officials feel in having trump as the nominee is that he is a wrecking ball to that idea. he has a very different style. trump, as he told me, has a different vision of where he thinks the republican party ought to go. david: you sat down with donald trump in the trump tower. what did he say about his vision? -- trumpnterested me won the nomination doing all of us the opposite of what previous -- the republican bigwigs had proposed after 2012. clearly, he is doing something right from the standpoint of winning republican voters. i asked him how does the envision the party changing? what he told me as he is going to put the trump stamp on the republican party in the same way he stamps the trump name on his buildings. what we ought to expect five years from now, he told me, the republican party will be more of
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a worker's party. it won't be talked to right-wing -- hawked to conservative right wing ideology. he will do a lot of the things he talked about on the campaign stage. some things republicans will be fine with. he has put out a list of conservative justices. then there are other things like building a wall and the porting and endingpeople trade deals, renegotiating trade deals that aren't going to fly very well with a lot of conservatives. i think that is why you have seen a lot of resistance twos -- to trouble along the conservative intellectual class. you would have to does him with truth serum and even then i'm not sure he would tell the truth. what he says is they speak every day. trump was very kind toward him. two months ago, when it looked as though there were be a contested convention, trump essentially was issuing veiled
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threats toward republican leaders about how they were going to try to steal a nomination at a rate convention. his tone has changed. he has even given him a friend a nickname. he now calls him mr. switzerland. it is to make peace between trump and the elements of the party to find him obnoxious. see what he can stands for if he stands for if you read this rnc autopsy. it is not what the republican party is today. it is not really what trump stands for. although he is being a good soldier and doing his best to help trump when the white house and get republicans back in power. >> howdy you illustrate the job ryan primus has? on the cover, ryan previous, head of the rnc, familiar to a lot of people. how do you decide to go with this photo? >> we had a fair amount of time
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with him which is great. we got a lot of different options. we had some options that are more traditional where you see his face and he is standing on a white wall. eagles. [laughter] >> read right and blue. >> -- read, white, and blue. >> and we had pictures of his office which is kind of what you imagine it to look like. he took a phone call. he had a little moment there. we thought that it was a very authentic moment of him at work. we had to talk about whether it was weird to have someone be the cover subject for not show his face. momentend, without the was so great and spoke to the situation right now with the republican party that it was the right way to go. >> you look at the cover and realize the frustration going on inside him internally. do ever think about when you do a cover like this how the
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subject is going to feel when they see it on the newsstand? >> we thought about that. >> it wasn't -- it is by no means purposely unflattering. this is something we all experience in our daily life. >> it tells the story really well. natural moments, i would say. it was not pose or planned out. david: i imagine part of the calculus is some people who know him -- you can disguise the face of bill clinton and that silhouette would be known to a lot more people than this one. where you thinking about that? >> we were a little bit. as an image, there is something interesting about how mundane it is, that it is not a celebrity scene in a different way. when we have situations like that, we take care of it with the language and we make sure to mention his name, the fact that he is remaking the republican party and headlined the hardest job in america speaks to the photo. carol: when you did this, did
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you do other things like he is standing, and you just decide we are going to put him behind his desk? >> personally, when i saw the photo, i fell in love with it. we tried a bunch of cover lines, we tried when it played against it which was funny, the joy of being the rnc chair which we like for a while. we felt the photo was so great that the type needed to stand aside. david: up next, trump redraw the map in terms of campaign ad spending. that has tv executives scared. carol: plus, could janet yellen be replaced by an algorithm? what central bankers are saying about ai. >> the future of tv. >> all of that ahead on bloomberg businessweek.
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1200, and bay area 960. at the free publicity donald trump has gone from the news media and social media. tvt's what that means for executives planning on campaigning advertising dollars that have not materialized. >> you have millions of followers, and he tweets something out and it is free advertising essentially, to millions of people. often times, he says something so incendiary a gets picked up on local news or cable network tv and a goes viral and we're all talking about it in ways that paid advertising doesn't really breakthrough. he has a strategy with working with the media and it is -- he is a master at pulling the strings to generate coverage. one estimate is that he is received almost $3 billion worth of free media or earned media which is a staggering amount and far exceeds any of the other
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republicans in the primary and exceeds what the democrats are getting, as well. to break through that, we have seen his competitors have to spend a lot of money to try to even get the kind of attention he is getting. it hasn't been successful. we look at the super pac right to rise usa which backed jeb bush, spent an estimated $70 million on tv advertising, and he didn't win. that raises the question of how candidates are going to do going forward. are they going to continue spending? are you inclined to think what the candidates are going to do going forward? quacks not everybody is donald trump. you look at a candidate like hillary clinton. even she gets a lot of media attention. she is not leaving anything to chance, or at least, her supporters are not. they super pac backing her has reserved $100 million worth of tv advertising between now and
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the election. a staggering amount and it is probably an amount that will only grow as we are closer. --y would argue that republicans waited too long and it too little to combat trump. they want to get a good head start on it. also, if we look down ballot, we see hot senate races and gubernatorial races. thosecutives think that candidates are going to have to spend a lot to break through, get their message out in a hot political season. perhaps try to differentiate themselves from the top of the ticket on the republican side or even on the democratic side. carol: up next, the new technology determining how valuable a professional basket ballplayers shoulder might be. david: the machine that may -- someday be running the world's central banks. carol: all of that ahead on bloomberg businessweek.
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♪ carol: welcome back to bloomberg businessweek. david: this week's global howomic session -- section, advances in artificial intelligence could make janet yellen have to look for a new job soon. carol: manufacturing isn't -- ai isn't being applied to our -- manufacturing anymore. >> machine learning is the dominant subfield in artificial intelligence. it refers to the technology that allows a computer to acquire knowledge or skills without being explicitly programmed for that skill. >> we see amazon and netflix already doing this. amazon does -- has their algorithms. analyzing what we are doing in terms of purchasing. maybe they can suggest something that we are in a -- we may be likely to buy. netflix does it with movies. >> when you go on netflix, they are applying machine learning to everything and knows about you and people like you to make a
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prediction about what kind of movie you might want to see. >> financial firms are doing the same thing in terms of its protective ability. >> there are several hedge funds that are employing machine learning to one extent or another to try to help them make picks, stock picks, or other security picks. to talk a lot about what they are doing. there is a lot of secret sauce involved. there are several hedge funds involved in the kind of work. >> what is tricky, it is one thing if they are checking my buying patterns and telling me you might like this book or this product. when you are dealing with something like the fed, the whole idea that whether or not this is going to be ultimately thisto go through all of information and predict what the fed can do, that is a giant leap, correct? >> it is massively complicated. the world economy is a much more a group oftem then
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customers for a company, or even the stock market. the number of variables that are involved in the uncertainty involved makes it a harder task. scientists --uter i spoke with andrew lowe, a well-known ai specialist at m.i.t., who believes we are getting very close to the point where the technology will be good enough to match humans. and then, not to further down the road, to surpass the ability of humans. >> the bank of england is in play with us a little bit, already, right? >> within the world and central banking, from what i can gather, although central banks are quite shy, i've found, to speak about this, from what i can sense, the bank of england is out in front of other central banks. is veryief economist keen on this topic. a new unitet aside
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called their advanced analytics unit that is already building and testing algorithms for solving certain problems including those within macroeconomic forecasting. they are not using it quite yet to brief their policymakers, to advise their policymakers. they are getting there. the head of that unit told me he thinks that within five years, it will be used to some extent in meaningfully helping their policymaking. >> speaking of sport machines, any magazine, there is a profile of a company whose visual search technology is being used by the fbi and mba. >> it is kind of like you see in a jason bourne movie. a lot of us thought this was already out there and easy to do. you cut and paste, or drag-and-drop what you want to find. it could be a person's face, a white pickup truck, a logo. you say find it and give it the source material, whatever it is. , ars of surveillance video
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game broadcast. you say find this within that. it scans the pixels and within a matter of seconds, feedback the results. >> you could do it quickly. talk about the guy behind the saw. you is he and how did he come up with all of this? buffalo native who has been doing machine learning stuff since college. he is a deeply knowledgeable geek about this stuff. he had done a couple of -- worked at companies and started one that did -- codified facial expressions to look for -- for signs of deception. that wound up having an advertising used because now, when you look at a video screen at an airport, they know who is looking at it by using this kind of technology. anyway, he had done that kind of stuff and new from network that intelligence agencies were buried in surveillance video. actually, it wasn't that sophisticated. a lot of times, it was people staring at it for hours and try
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to find threats, or they would have this technology that needed rooms full of servers to work. just because it is a comic in the process. he set about trying to assemble fire. knows, for instance, when jones come back from their flight, sometimes, they have 12 hours of high residue. they put that up against the nerve system to find out what's there. , you goalk in the story through a whole yankee season quickly. >> seconds. that is hundreds of hours. depending on how data rich the many queries how you want to do, it is seconds. i asked him to do a brief search of three hours of cnn for hillary and trump at night. they sent me a clip of them pressing go in the results. it is literally just -- bang, they'll pop up. it is out of hollywood. where they wary at all about
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getting into what they do? >> they develop the technology themselves. they decided to fund themselves until they had a thing they could sell. while they can't say and don't even know what the government exactly is doing, they are at liberty to talk about their technology. i was curious about whether as this becomes affordable and more widespread, do you want everybody to be able to do this? for them, and a way, they are selling it. carol: up next, the big money china is spending onto territoriality. >> plus, the courts redefined and -- insider trading. ♪
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available online. a new era for insider trading. carol: coal is the new hot coffee. it is all ahead on bloomberg businessweek. we are here with editor alan pollack. there are so many must reads in the magazine. you talk about south africa, growth slowing down in the country. fore is some momentum president zuma to step down. >> the story is interesting because it compares the situation in south africa where india where the reporter who wrote the story used to be stationed. whethers question about the african national congress can keep going and staying the dominant party in talks about how they have installed all the problems in this growing discontent. it means that down the line, if possible, they will start losing so
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