yvonne: and jim chanos shares an exclusive investment insight. >> call me a cynic, but i think thereight be a little disappointment ahead of us. yvonne: it is all straight ahead on "bloomberg best." ♪ yvonne: welcome. i'm yvonne man. this is "bloomberg best," a weekly review of the most important business news, analysis, and interviews from bloomberg television around the world. it was a momentous week in politics and policy across the globe, starting with a closely watched election in germany. ♪ >> angela merkel has won a fourth term as chancellor, but her victory was marred by surging support for the populist alternative for germany party and a clear rebuke to her open door policy on refugees. afd has 13%. one of her main coalition partners decided they now want to be part of the opposition. who will she build a coalition with? >> she has got to build a coalition with the liberals and greens. that is her only choice after the social democrats have said they will no longer participate in the government, but go to the opposition. >> it is untested at the national level, making it mor

. ♪ yvonne: still ahead, as we review the week on "bloomberg best," exclusive insight from jim chanosan explanation on why one is bullish on cryptocurrency. plus, inflation baffling central bankers. up next, more of the week's top business stories. it has been a week of controversy for american football and college basketball. >> i think the fbi is doing ncaa's dirty work. yvonne: this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ yvonne: this is "bloomberg best." i'm yvonne man. we are continuing our global tour of the top business stories. in japan with a political gamble from the prime minister. ♪ >> politics dominated the economic outlook and outlook for equities in japan. the prime minister shinzo abe is holding a commanding lead in opinion polls. this with his coalition partners. he is seeking an $18 billion economic package, what are the economists saying it will mean for the japanese economy? >> by historical standards, the headline number does not look that big. you may recall a year ago, the government announced a package worth 28 trillion yen, 14 times as big as this one. however, as always, the key i

scarlet: you have tesla bears, including jim chanos.t he had to say. >> they were supposed to be making money now and supposed to be making money by 2020. i am guessing by 2019 we will hear 2025, they are structurally unprofitable and its capital structure is way too leveraged. scarlet: leverage is where i want to pick up because it has made castles plenty of types and will have to do that again, it keeps moving the goalposts, doesn't that hurt confidence after a while? >> good sound similar to amazon 10 or kicking years ago, you have a company that could be profitable today but they would be subscale for longer. to produce and ship as many cars as possible. to do that, they will have to invest as much as they can to get to one million cars sold or 2 million cars sold, whatever the number is. i think there is a tremendous amount of leverage in the model, meaning, when they get to a certain scale, profits will come. that is not the strategy today and i think the market realizes it, seeing the stock at 60% year to date. julia: we have the

perhaps the short interest is seeing a bit of a pickup. 756.at g #btv they are looking at what jim chanosucturally unprofitable. he would not give up the shorts until they make progress. we see a little pickup when it comes to short interest for tesla. betty: it is betting against or for. i think people who want to go to mars that do not know how to bet on it, they are defined tesla. much more on daybreak asia. more about the china party congress. ♪ who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track, and finding us dates. phones really have changed. so why hasn't the way we pay for them? introducing xfinity mobile. you only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. no one else lets you do that. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit or go to xfinitymobile.com. yvonne: it is 8:00 in hong kong, live from bloomberg's asia headquarters. top story, earnings have been increasing global optimism, seen lifting asian-pacific markets