of "bloomberg businessweek."et's start with a section about preschool in japan. there is such a conversation about universal pre-k, that is something that is not possible in japan. why? ellen: there is this big shortage of women in the workplace and the prime minister is hoping to get more women actually working, and more women would like to work but there is a huge childcare issue. there are not enough nursery schools and the nursery schools are just sort of mired in regulation, and the teachers are paid very poorly so the teachers are constantly dealing with paperwork, etc. they do not want to do it anymore so they are trying to recruit more teachers and they in fact are building more nursery schools, but it is tough to make it all come together. david: high yield investment programs, something i have not heard of before, talk about what they are. basically online programs that invest in various things and promise really outrageous returns. really many of them are ponzi schemes so they are paying old investors

all of that i had on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ ♪ lisa: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." for carol massar and david gura. you can find us on the radio. in this week's special interview issue, bloomberg reporter dena bass sat down with c.e.o. from microsoft to talk about how he is going to take his company so they can keep it moving for. i sat down with him to talk about it. he is very data-driven in general, so he rigorously tracked many things in his life, and one of the things he tracks is something that he does with every minute of his day, time spent in meetings, time spent at home, all sorts of different things personal and business life. one of the things he is trying to figure out is whether he is using his time in the most efficient way as ceo and so he talked to me about trying to balance how much time he spends outside of the company because of course a ceo needs to be doing things inside the company but also needs to be reaching out to the broader technology community and the augurs -- also how muchy tracks time he spends in meetings and how productive the meet

it's all ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ carol: i am here with the editor of bloomberg businessweekyou guys write about hong kong and the growing independence movement, what is going on? think honge people kong should separate from china and go off on its own. it is a small movement. than mostn more root people expected. the couple of beers ago there was a lot of protests about hong its relationship with china. people don't like that china was insisting at one point that they the nominees to be the chief executive. this is a continuation of that debate. hong kong is very dependent on china. it is a history as being a british colony. the future of hong kong is still being hammered out. carol: the economy was doing so well, but now not so while that is making it trickier. people that live there, the economy is really in bad shape for a variety of reasons. prices are very high. many people who are the hong kong have dual passports because when the british were withdrawing the question was where is he going to go. there is a lot of uncertainty. you have a story but a family but there is

it's all ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: i am here with the editor of "bloomberg businessweekllen, in the opening remarks section, you guys write about hong kong and the growing independence movement, what is going on? ellen: so there are people who think hong kong should separate from china and go off on its own. it is a small movement. but it has taken more root than most people expected. a couple of years ago, there was a lot of protests about hong kong's role and its relationship with china. and people don't like that china was insisting at one point that they come up with the nominees to be the chief executive. anyway, this is a continuation of that debate. hong kong is very dependent on china for water, food, lots of things. of course, it has a history as being a british colony. and sort of the future of hong kong is still being hammered out. carol: the economy was doing so well, but now not so while that is making it trickier. ellen: it is making it trickier for the chinese and the people who live there. the economy is really in bad shape for a variety of reasons. housi

that is next. ♪ ♪ david: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek."re inside the magazine's headquarters. david: we are looking at the interviews issues. carol: looking at working mothers. david: and mtv making the old new again. carol: all ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ david: here with the editor in chief, ellen pollock. so many must-read interviews. that start with marissa mayer, the head of yahoo!. the corporate of it has been sold to verizon. interesting conversation about how she got to yahoo!, she was at google before hand and she talked about the challenges of being with that company. ellen: google was young and she talked about the founders had been like, rollerblading on the campus of stanford and how much she learned there. and that for a really long time she would do at least one all night or a week. she would work 130 hours a week, which is a lot. basically, how exciting it was. she goes on to talk about what it was like to be working at yahoo! during the last year where it was for sale, was not for sale, so much going on. carol: an

it is all ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ with the are here editor bloomberg businessweek, ellen.ust-read. we talk about turkey, what is going on there? attempted coup and the president continues to be strongly popular. he was able to put down the coup without a lot of problems but it was relatively short-lived. and we talk about why he is popular. so some of it is what is sort of retail politics. he was mayor of istanbul years ago and he took care of people who were in dire circumstances. he replaced a dump that was legendary with real development. and he made sure the city became a modern city. so there is a huge segment of the population that feel like he actually improved their lives. and for that reason, he is unlikely -- we raise the question is he "coup proof?" he may be. there is a lot of controversy about him. carol: this goes back to the basics of the economy. he improved people's lives. >> they become popular because they actually say they were better off -- they are better off than they were and it was the president that did it for me. carol: talk about the features se

why ringo starr was all in for brexit. ♪ lisa: welcome back to bloomberg businessweek. bramowicz and for carol massar and david gore. fashion designers using fashion to make a bigger statement. i talked with bloomberg reporter about what it was like to talk with him. >> he was born in singapore and grew up in nepal. before moving here to new york. over the past two years, he has gotten really popular on red carpets with celebrities, and he got into mainstream america with a fashion line in collaboration with target. >> one thing that was interesting is the feeling throughout the whole thing that he fundamentally felt like an outsider from his youth, even coming here. he seemed not to be mainstream, and yet here he is, very mainstream. can you talk about that? >> he told me that he -- he told me that when he was growing up in nepal, he felt like an outsider in school. so he went to an all boys school. he always felt like part of the group. that he was an outsider. that he did not get along. and really affected his psyche. he just told himself overtime that, you know what?

david: all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with the editor of bloombergusinessweek, ellen pollock. this is a double issue big , interviews. and there is a theme tying them altogether? >> no, there is not a theme but it is meant to be a very diverse group of people, it is meant to be something -- they are all different. we hope that you take it to the beach. we have more than a dozen ceos, sometimes we are talking to them about things you would not expect. we have carlos talking about how he would change the work week. just sort of unusual things. we have ringo starr on brexit, believe it or not. david: ok. >> yes, most people have, a lot of people have. and it is sort of unexpected, a nice unusual mix of people and it is fun. and you get to hear them in their own voice. a lot of times, you do not, so it is sort of an interesting journey. david: let's talk about a few of them. the founder of the black lives matter movement, what does she talk about? >> she talks about the founding of it and how it is basically founded with a hashtag. and she talks about ho

all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ lisa: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek."m lisa abram wicks in for carol massar and david gura. the radio. us on in this week's special interview issue bloomberg reporter dena bass sat down th c.e.o. from microsoft satch i don't know in a della. tracking thing 234s issouri life and one thing satya nadella tracks is time spent in meetings and at home and all things personal and business life. one thing he is trying to figure out is if he is using his time efficiently so he tracks how much time he spends utside the company because a c.e.o. needs to be doing things outside but inside and tracks how much time he spends in meetings and microsoft and metrics are working on how productive these meetings are so not just how many but are they worthwhile and are there too many layers of things in one meeting and how many meetings get spawned from one meeting so if you set up a meeting how many other meetings do people have to go to? lisa: i bet they deal with -- you asked him and talked senseably it seemed about how he plans to change

carol: bloomberg businessweek is available on the newsstands now. back to the vault and the old footage and bring it back for another generation to watch. it is a whole undertaking. david: i really liked the interview with mark weinberger, the ceo of ey. the big consulting company. carol: the mental and yields -- the millennials. david: yes. a huge percentage of the workforce is very young. great storiess of and interviews. see you next week. ♪ ♪ coming up, the stories that have shaped the week in business around the world. the bank of england setting a post brexit direction while japan has another fiscal aero -- >> the shakespearean tragedy of abe. number, whatobs message will send the feds? >> what is not holding up is business investment. >> and all eyes on earnings this week. >> a great quarter across the board. >>

all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ we are here with the editor in chief of bloomberg businessweeklike. in the small business section, essentially food halls popping up in london. what are they doing? ellen: it is a company called london union that is about 18 months old. they are setting up kind of like food trucks but they are food halls. in new york we have smorgasbord but in other parts of the world there are other kinds of market. their twist is they are open at night so what kind of has a party like atmosphere. outcan try out pizza, try christy duck with cheese. duck with-- crusty cheese. david: what do these pieces look like? of spartan late appointed. ellen: they are kind of like bare-bones. the first one i think was founded in london and was called dalston yard. it faced an old warehouse and they brought in food stalls. it is sort of like a fair, kind of. the features section, an amazing piece about a guy who set up a wine shop in the bay area and a website, and began to attract a lot of attention for the prices he was charging. before we get into what he ended up doing, h

ahead, on "bloomberg businessweek."] >> here with the editor in chief, so many interviews in this issue. marissa meyer,h head of yahoo. conversationg about sort of how she got to yahoo. she was at google beforehand and talks about the challenges of being at that company in its early stages. >> she talked about going to wanted to bee she part of the decision making. and google was young. she wouldew that be -- she talks about how its founders only the year before roller blading on the campus of stanford and how there.e learned and for a really long time, she would do at least one week, work 130 hours a week, which is kind of a lot. know, basically how exciting it was. talkhen she goes on to about what it was like to be working at yahoo during the last it was for sale or wasn't for sale and so much was going on. talking about parenting too, because she had kids through all of this. it wasn't always easy. had twins right around the time that they were thereg bids for yahoo and were decisions on big tax issues and whether t

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the state no longer has the reserves officials once tapped to pay bills -- david: bloomberg businessweekakes a look at how lending club disrupted itself. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets." you can call it the first national bank of inflated numbers. lending club had started to unravel. max uncovers new details in this week's edition of "bloomberg businessweek." max: i got an e-mail from someone i've known for a long time who said there is more to this lending club story than you know. he is somebody interested in data science, he started digging into the dead and he found a bunch of loans that looked really questionable. the data datao dat. outbody was taking these and two weeks later, lending club disclosed just that. we have more detail about those disclosures. casts doubt ont the company possibly his practices over the past half decade or more. everybody felt they were doing it right. pick your accolade. in terms of the other data coming out that makes it questionable, does it have to do with the transparency issues? really funerg had a report about manny's compa

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that's in this week's issue of "bloomberg businessweek."hink of america as the drug that is advertised online order. -- on law and order. >> and the olympics this week. it was developed in a chemistry lab at northwestern. it became a bestseller years later for pfizer. northwestern decided to sell some of the royalties. what would happen if a competitor came along or if there were side effects? they got $700 million for selling that share of the royalties, in addition to other royalties coming in. ago because of its creation on northwestern's property, they got the rights to it? jenna: absolutely. one of the professors develop the patent. because of a law congress passed in 1980, it allows you to keep the proceeds and share it with the inventors. northwestern and that getting about $1.4 million in royalties from the drug -- that is not unusual. their former president decided the best decision to use that money would be to put it in the endowment so it could grow. and it did. they got that initial big check in 2007. , putting that in the endo

you can read the article in the latest bloomberg businessweek and hear from the magazine's reportersthe week's most talked about stories every saturday and sunday on bloomberg television. still ahead on "bloomberg markets," it's a commodities close after feeling the pressure in recent weeks, oil is moving higher in rebounding from the last session. we have the latest on that with tom petrie. ♪ >> this is bloomberg markets. >> commodity markets are closing in new york. julie hyman has more on this sharp rebound. it is a few sessions old, give or take, from the lows after entering a bear market. crude up by about 3% just over $43 a barrel. and renewing freeze talks is not on the table but they see this pessimism passes. that is evidence by money manager. here's the price of oil itself. and this is short positions. they are now at a record aboard this past week. bouncing by a little bit. calling for a soft bounce. this is what is going on with retail gasoline. coming down pretty sharply. that is evidenced by the latest numbers. gold had been trading at about a one-week low. prices up ju

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vonnie: you can read the article in the latest bloomberg business re--- bloomberg businessweek. the headlines on the bloomberg first word news at this hour. mark crumpton has more from our newsroom. mark: search efforts to recover a black box from a sunken ship 15,000 feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. freighter sank in october of 2015. the national transportation safety board's mission had been on hold because resources needed for the effort were not available. all crew members died after the vessel lost propulsion and sank. a federal judge has upheld rob ugly vision's prison sentence on corruption charges. agovich plus prison sentence. an appeals court struck down five of his convictions and ordered him to be re-sentence. in brazil, the senate will again voting tonight on whether to put the suspended president on trial. she is accused of breaking the budget law and is expected to lose the vote which requires a simple majority. opponents would need a two thirds majority to keep her from resuming office. china is warning the u.k. that relations between the two hang on

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. ♪ lisa: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." lisa abramowicz in for carol massar and david gura. in this week's special interview issue we talk to some of the top people in business. head of i.b.m. talks about where she sees the company positioning itself in the a.i. revolution. we talked to century nadella the head of microsoft about where this company will go in its middle age and we talk to the beatles great ringo star and why that band benefited by not being part of the digital revolution. that and more ahead on "bloomberg businessweek."

bloomberg businessweek was interested in what they are wearing to the games in rio. look at the close that they where and their athletes who manage to infuse their presence with some individuality. paul george and the basketball player -- come in nike,unks jerseys and shorts, they look for a lot of things in addition to the tattoos. and that isble something we heard throughout this package. the shoes as well, you need them to be light for the ask about team. what kind of sponsors are they getting to mark guest: there are different levels of sponsorship. things like mcdonald's and nike, huge ransom. some of the athletes that compete in the less popular have brands like skechers who sponsor our marathon runners. each small partnership is important. many: i was struck i how drew a distinction between competing for a national championship versus going to the olympics. what do they have to say about the importance of this quadrennial event? guest: it is a totally different ballgame, no unintended. what -- when you are competing and getting paid, it's a whole different thi

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his exclusive interview with jeff bewkes is in the latest "bloomberg businessweek." s bloomberg. ♪ e david: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york but this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: commodity markets closing in new york. to thetures climbed up bank of england unleashed a stimulus package that includes the central banks first rate cut in seven years. -- clues on the bed futures fellve -- back into the red astrid is focused on the potential for record stockpiles before the winter. struggling at $41.92 a barrel. david: can we really call it a crude come back? pricesh for oil continues lower. you are bullish, but cautious. what is your sense here of prices? alan greenspan saying he spotted in the low $40 range. >> we may have bottomed out. it's a little too early to be definitive. we could go as low as the high 30's. we did touch that range a couple days back. there's good reasons to be cautious and good reason to think this is not going to last forever. refinery margins are pretty weak. global demand growth is decelerating and we have upcoming seasonal weakn

task rabbit, an online marketplace that is outsourcing household errands and profiled in the bloomberg businessweek interview series. she joins us from san francisco. congratulations on your new ceo position. tell us how you make decisions when the previous ceo is still around, and you have to work together and cooperate. >> we have a great relationship. we really did a great job when dividing upther responsibilities. making theseme decisions, and it is great. what have you brought this -- -- from theperience google experience? one is that the scarcity brings clarity and focusing on things, you will get to great outcomes. task rabbit was successful in the googling our business last year because of that focus. and building a great leadership team. it is one of the reasons i love working at the company. we create meaning and economic impact. vonnie: how concerned are you about the silicon valley economy ? we were talking about dropbox going public. things, you will get to great outcomes. how in that environment do you raise more funding? i believe you are trying. >> in our case i think the future is

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. ♪ shery: this is bloomberg markets. " bloomberg businessweek" current leader shows culture and businessders. my colleague has a conversation with one of the most card game developers in the world, roger snow of scientific games. he starts out by explaining one of the most profitable games. >> it is basically like "texas but it takes a lot of the decisions -- basically a very simplified version of the game. people who are not masters of poker can sit down and get very good at it in the course of an afternoon. they take poker, a million different directions you can go at any given moment. you turn that down to any number of different decisions. >> how did roger get into poker and believe there was more he hadead potential? >> a short stint as a journalist. he moved to vegas hoping to make his fortune in some vague way and got a low level job at a casino called an analyst job. basically looking at the books. was payingthe casino sums of money every month to accompany to rent games. like what is this? he got curious about how you invent these games and went from there. game?t does make a go

jennifer dlouhy wrote the story for this week's edition of "bloomberg businessweek."out what has led to this rule. there was a lot of conversation drop president obama's term about opening up these lands to development for wind and solar. white is a team like that kind of development has moved at a fairly glacial pace? jennifer: this has been a top priority. the president wanted to unleash renewables on public lands. those best intentions ran up against federal environment loss. -- laws. these projects must go through pretty significant in my mental review. -- environmental review. they have to do a broad environmental assessment. they have to assess their impact on eagles and other birds. vonnie: what happens next? jennifer: this rule is expected to come out from the entire -- interior department. process for ahe lot of years with a lot of back-and-forth between regulators and developers over what it should look like. the rule is likely to create this bidding process for wind and solar developers. where they have a choice of going to prescreened land, territory that

nejra: that was bloomberg businessweek devin with carol massar.ning criticism of central bankers and he joins us live. ♪ >> live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am never a carriage. negative interest rates are turning assets into a liability, stifling the capitalist system. going to erik schatzker for more. you thisl, good to see afternoon. i will get to negative interest rate than just a moment. i want to ask you about the news. brazil senate just ousted the president. does this change anything for you? does brazilian sovereign or even equity looked even more attractive with this development? i think the market will view this not as an all clear sign, but a sign that things will get better. hard to believe they will get worse. from a personal standpoint, i do an think the soul is investment grade credit. i think they have scores of liability, many of which are related to pensions that allow citizens to retire with nearly full benefits. those problems, as well as the problems of a commodity-producing country with , all ofinfrastru

david: the cover of bloomberg businessweek. ncredible video about the .rogram you can hear from reporters in the week's most talked about stories every saturday and sunday. coming up, the commodities close. this is bloomberg. ♪ from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, this is bloomberg "markets." we're taking a look at nymex crude down two point 75% or so. -- 2.75. 2.5 million barrels added last week. mining giant glencore posted the worst happier your profit since listing in london five years ago. the question, will things get global head of commodities research, as morris, was asked whether there is merit and all the miners calling the bottom in commodity prices. we actually called the bottom in february. it is a supply-side story, and every commodity has a different supply-side story unfolding. >> that leads me to copper. mineore saying a copper will come on in the first half of 2018, and that has been the question, when do projects sanctioned a year ago, online and delay the rebalancing? >> copper has certainly been a

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. ♪ now for the bloomberg businessweek come of big business stories in the news.mates thanks largely to strong performances from films . profit at the film division helping to counter slower growth in tv and a drop in earnings from consumer products. disney is buying a minority mtech for $1 billion. beat estimates, sales surge, including allergy medicine. revenue rose 8%. competitors attempts to break into the market have fallen short. the judge in the massachusetts case involving sumner redstone has set a trial date. the judge said the trial over the ouster of the ceo will run for five days. at issue, whether sumner redstone wrongly ousted him from a trust that controls by comp. that is your bloomberg business flash. scarlet: "what'd you miss?" productivity unexpectedly fell. while productivity has been week, tricky problem since productivity growth is a key factor behind rising living standards and wage growth, so how would this data factor into the fed's decision as hiring remains robust as well. we spoke to the global head of market economics. of the day, we c

the national correspondent for bloomberg businessweek called him the most dangerous political operatived trump campaign has been touting that. katie, you have a piece of on the site with some of your colleagues. donald trump said he makes decisions with his head and his gut and instinct here it was this decision to bring into new people something that was rational and thoughtful, or more gut instinct? >> i want to say it's more gut decision for donald trump your you've you look at the polls, he has been down. sources within the campaign telling us he has been deeply unhappy now for some time. now he's realizing that embracing his own instincts is the way to go. they feel very strongly it's the way that he ran during the primaries, beating out those 16 candidates was the right way to go, trusting his gut, going out there in shooting from the hip and making headlines every and to apologize. ,he past couple of months they've tried to traditional eyes and professionalize the campaign. chafe seen donald trump at that, trying to be conciliatory with the republican party. he had to read from n

i talked to the reporter who wrote the story for bloomberg businessweek.anyone who watches or evenprograms science, there's something incredible going on here that nasa has invested massive resources, but in reality, not so much. the laptop is three much running what is going on up there. nothing guest: less than a pentium iii 86. not even. the pentium was much more terrifyingly fast. why is nasa still using technology that is decades-old? the heart of the question we addressed in the story. anyone who has a new consumer device, whether a lot top or smartphone ones the absolute leading-edge, the best performance they can get and will not tolerate a delay. nasa has a completely different set of priorities. is a terrifying environment beingsuniverse for human , everything we send out there has got to be rock solid. that procurement cycle, the attitude toward buying is completely different. the rating is built around david: safety and nothing can go wrong. david:safety and reliability, the roughness of the universe on the space station in space shuttles and a

joining us to discuss, r bloomberg contributing editor, who wrote this exclusive story for "bloomberg businessweek we're also learning a judge has denied uber's settlement with california drivers in the three-year-old lawsuit over whether or not drivers should be treated as employees or independent contractors. it looks like even though uber lost the settlement, it's good for uber. can you explain what this means? >> uber is locked in this ongoing discussion over what its drivers are. are the employees, independent contractors, small businessman or women? keeponversation will going, which even if the settlement had gone through, there would have been more things, morecourt lawsuits, etc.. it's not a huge bit of news but it does show this is a problem that uber will face for some time. emily: how does it give uber the upper hand? >> i suppose because what happened in san francisco, a judge wanted uber's drivers to be able to get out of arbitration. he was saying he would not approve the settlement without this clause that would have allowed them to get out of arbitration. uber said no, we will walk

a new investigation by bloomberg businessweek has revealed police in baltimore have been secretly testing an aerial surveillance system that records the movement and actions of baltimore residents in real-time from a low-flying plane. the technology has been adapted from the u.s. military's surveillance programs aimed at detecting roadside bombs in iraq. the plane is equipped with multiple cameras that can record 30-square mile swaths of the city at a time. the plane is the creation of the private company persistent surveillance systems. the project is bankrolled by john arnold, a former enron trader and hedge funder. the plane has been circling above baltimore since january without the public ever being notified. meanwhile, in new york, a new report says the new york police department intelligence bureau frequently broke rules while surveilling muslim-american residents after the 2001 september 11 attacks. the report was issued by the office of the inspector general for the new york police department tuesday. it says the agency failed to offer information about the role of undercover cop