carol: you can find us on businessweek.com and our mobile app.n the finance section, dirty money scandals seem to be pouring out of europe. carol: including some nordic banks that appeared to be cut handling suspicious russian money. jason: potentially funny russian money in the eu's financial system operated something like an open secret, almost tolerated until recent reports. carol: alan katz has the story from paris. alan: two things really. one of them surprisingly was the russian attack on sergei skripal, a former russian agent living in the u.k. the difference was that for the first time in a long time, europeans thought that russian actions might actually be harmful to them. this has nothing to do with money laundering. it was with a chemical agent that made him and his daughter violently ill and sent to the hospital. killed a woman whose boyfriend accidentally found a perfume bottle that contained this agent. it made people in europe wearier of russia. americans tend to think more naturally that maybe russians have bad intentions towards

find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app.leaders in business politics and academics gathered in new york for the bloomberg equality summit. jason: i sat down with john winkle read. we talked about the recent college admissions scandal that saw charges brought against a former tpg partner. >> when this news first broke it was pretty shocking. this is something we had no knowledge of or had no idea this was all happening. any time something like this happens it's sort of takes your breath away for a minute. we reacted as you described. we tried to react in a focused way. one of the things we felt was important to do was to make sure we were communicating. we went out to our stakeholders. that is externally in terms of our investors and internally. because this is obviously an important thing internally with all of our people. our investors overall are very and they obviously understood the context that bill was engaged in this scheme on a personal basis. were -- ours investors understand what they whichying to accomplish is our

online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app.ason: the politics section takes a special look into amazon's growing influence and clouds in washington dc. amazon lobbying efforts, only second to google among technology companies. ,racle, microsoft, facebook amazon in second place on spending in washington. google takes first place. >> you can see it all accelerating dramatically. what is accelerating is what they are lobbying about. that has changed her medically. these are the policy areas for which amazon has hired lobbyists by year. they are not going to -- carol: covering all the issues. fascinating charts. more on this story and amazon's growing influence in washington. tech competitors amazon out spends almost everyone except for google. last year it broke a record for federal spending, more than 14 million last year. that was up from more than 12 million the year before. lobbying.e a sizable >> it is interesting because this is a reminder. so much about influence and money in washington. the numbers are pretty high but it i

. >> and of course you can find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile.politics session, william barr meets to decide how much of robert mueller's report to release. >> president trump may have a big say. here is julian goodman. >> trumpism a really interesting position, on the one hand he was the subject of a 22 month investigation but now he's the only one who gets to decide what parts of that are in are not covered by executive privilege. he got up in front of reporters on monday and said he doesn't care as long as the attorney general is ok, but there are plenty of reasons why even beyond anything in particular he is worried about having been set or discovered, they wouldn't want some of those things to come out. jay sekulow was also talking to reporters about how, if they released his interview questions, that would set a difficult president for future presidents. >> as you say, trump ultimately decides -- do you have a sense of where justice is leaning? you have an interesting cast of characters, the attorney general who was appointed after he dismi

carol: you can find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app.illiam barr needs to decide how much of robert mueller's report to release. jason: president trump may have a big say. there is jillian government. >> president trump was the subject of this but now he is the only one who gets to decide what parts of what was provided to the investigators are not covered by executive privilege. he doesn't care, as long as this comes out. there are plenty of reasons why -- they do not one of those things to come out. >> there are also talking to reporters about how if they released his interview questions, that would set a difficult president for future cedent for -- pre future presidents. attorney general barr who was appointed by the president after he dismissed jeff sessions, the former attorney general who the this well known, then you have run rosenstein was hanging around for a certain amount of time, ultimately, the president is the decider. what sort of advice to think he will get russian mark -- will he get? >> didn't want that much to come out

you can also find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app. is in berlin for the super return conference, where the biggest names in private venture capital are gathered. jason: if there is such a thing as a hidden tycoon, it is bruce flat. $350 billion under management brookfield has. they are well known in the real estate world. --, awn a big chunk of big part of lower manhattan. they are also in private equity and the infrastructure businesses. >> there's always opportunity. there is a lot of consternation and politics and things out there. the world is generally in a pretty good place right now. the economies of the world are either good or actually some of them are improving. going down but on balance, if you look back over many years, it's pretty good in the world and the environment. in the news -- jason: in the news obviously is brexit. you are a huge landowner in london. how do you play all this? >> look, this is a long game. we invest for many years. we make investments assuming you will have issues when you go through it. this one j

jason: and find us online at businessweek.com and our mobile app.technology section, an effort by state attorneys general to break apart the tech companies. carol: we talk about the fight brewing in california and washington. >> there are a number of attorneys general who think there is a problem with tech companies being too big, too much market power, too much control over consumer data. what my colleague and i wanted to do was to check in, because there has not been much talk about what the attorneys general are doing in september, when a group of them met with jeff sessions who was then attorney general at the justice department. sessions had called within -- called them in because he was concerned that the platforms were suppressing conservative views, but a number of these attorney general's steer the conversation, we were told, towards market dominance and privacy issues. we have also heard a group of those states have since taken a further step and are investigating a possible antitrust action against google, in particular. which had not bee

you can also find us on businessweek.com and our mobile app.'t call japan's new guest worker program a policy change. >> the country is reluctantly coming to terms with the idea that it needs foreigners to combat this demographic problem. its workforce is going to shrink by a quarter over the next 25 years, and already, there is a lot of jobs where they forecast about 500,000 caregivers to take care of mostly the elderly in the next 25 years. who will do this work? >> tell us about this program. that it is aaid temporary program. >> the government has said that. this is a new kind of visa. so they think up to 350,000 people come in on these five-year residency permits. there is very vague language attached to the idea that they may be able to apply to be a permanent resident which is unlike the trainee program, but we know from the experience of germany that had a guest worker program that began in the 1950's, mostly taking people from the former yugoslavia and turkey that people did put down roots in germany, and germany has a sizable turkish

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you can also find us online at businessweek.com and our mobile app.n the economics section, as donald trump and other leaders in the west move to erect barriers to immigration, japan is moving in the opposite direction, but don't call the new guest worker program a policy change. here's cristina lindblad. cristina: the country is reluctantly coming to terms with the idea that it needs foreigners to combat this demographic problem. its workforce is going to shrink by a quarter over the next 25 years, and already, there is a lot of jobs where they forecast they need about half a million caregivers to take care of mostly the elderly in the next 25 years. who will do this work? carol: tell us a little bit about this program. it has been said that it is a temporary program. cristina: the government has stressed that. they have said this is not a change in immigration policy, this is a new kind of visa. so they think up to 350,000 people come in on these five-year residency permits. there is very vague language attached to the idea that they may be able to

jason: and find us online at businessweek.com and on our mobile app. features section, salvador, an era of gang violence has given rise to a thriving cough and is. -- coffin business. carol: one city is getting a reputation. >> for pretty grim reasons, el one of the worst sites of homicide per capita, it is supposedly the highest rate in the world. violencees to gang that has been exacerbated between principally ms 13 and barrio 18. 18.ario the previous administration blew up a brief truce fairly short-lived one a few years ago. it was brokered by the roman catholic church, of all people. jason: to bring us very vivid details about this. who is to the story believe were in a very different business. >> that's right. they were running a bakery in what is now their funeral parlor. two of the three brothers have take the money that they have made first by selling coffins on their own and by coffins from other sources and running the funeral parlor. they're trying to make the parlor next to what was once their bread oven, to make the principal facility. ca

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