i am carol massar. carol: i'm jason kelly.arol: -- let's not forget that this issue is all about heists. jason: jason: we jason: go digital and look at something happening all around the world. cash getting stalling. and robinson has more. >> this was a big break in a case that has been legendary. since at least 2013. a whole network of banks in russia, other eastern european countries, germany, the event and taiwan had been mysteriously spitting out cash from atm's. these mysterious characters have been collecting the cash and making off with it. the authorities in all of these countries had been chasing these cyber thieves for a long time. they got a really big break in taipei. one of the thieves dropped a bank card. for the first time, the cops could get something on their hands that was a lead to the gang that have been running. jason: i want to take you back to something you mentioned. it feels almost cinematic. you can like the opening of a movie when you read this. unsuspecting people are walking up to people. in front

i am carol massar. jason: i am jason kelly. carol: a conspiracy to put a president on trial. in europe, contemplation on what the continent will be like without angela merkel. jason: and we go digital. we look at something happening all around the world, cash getting stolen using the internet. carol: ed robinson has more. ed: this was a big break in the case that has been legendary in the digital world for years, since 2013. the whole network of banks in russia, other european countries, germany, the u.k., and taiwan had been mysteriously spitting out cash from atm's and these mysterious characters have been collecting the cash and making off with it, so that authorities -- and all of these countries had been chasing the cyber thieves for a long time -- when they got a big break in july 2016 in taipei. one of the thieves dropped a bank card, and for the first time, the cops could get their hands on something physical that was a lead to the gang that had been running the cyber theft. jason: i want to take you back to something you mentioned, which is it deals almost cinematic.

i am carol massar. jason: and i am jason kelly. we are joining you from bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week's issue is about the space race. jason: there is so much going on talking tinyare rockets and drug therapies at the international space station. carol: we are also talking comment mining. jason: it goes back to money. billionaires are pouring money race 2.0.pace carol: it does come back to money. our reporter took us to spacex. jason: but not to where you would think, not elon musk but the woman behind him, making it all happen. >> gwen is the coo and president of spacex. she has been one of the people closest to elon musk over the last 15 years or so. probablyn besides musk most responsible for turning this into something more than a wild set of dreams to colonize mars. jason: where did she come from? max: she is from the midwest, north of chicago. she started at chrysler and moved into the aerospace industry. musk founder in 2002, when there was not a lot there. it was like, we're going to make cheap rockets

i'm carol massar. jason: and i am jason kelly. carol: coming up in this week's issue, a future with robot taxies. we will introduce you to a pioneering driverless startup. jason: and how best buy is surviving and may be driving in an amazon world. carol: first, we start with a cover story. we will take a look at president trump's trade policies. jason: we look at the applications of the policies around the world and here at home. carol: and the destruction of the trade policies and how lasting they might be. jason: we talked with taylor riggs. peter: he is making changes that are likely to endure for a couple of reasons. one is, a lot of international commerce has to do with trust. it is not just the words that are in the trade treaties. or the phrasing in the wto. it is the sense that countries have that open borders, and free trading is good from both sides. if that trust goes away, you feel like the other party is trying to hurt you, and it can cause a corrosive damage that is not reversed easily. and then you have the fact we a

i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. rol: a conspiracy to put a president on trial. >> life without angela merkel. carol: this issue is all about height. >> we go digital. cash getting stolen using the internet.' carol: probably still going on. >> at robinson has more. >> this is a big break in a case that has been legendary inns at least 2013. a whole network of banks in russia, other eastern european countries, germany, the u.k., and taiwan, has been spitting at cash from atm's. and these mysterious characters have an collecting the cash and making off with it. the authorities have been chasing these mysterious cyber thieves for a long time when i got a really big break in 2016 in taipei. one of the thieves dropped a bankcard, just dropped it. for the first time, the cops could get their hands on something physical that was a lead to the gang that had been running what had been known as the carbon act's ever theft. >> i want to take you back to something you mentioned right there, which is it feels almost cinematic, lik

i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. you can also listen to us on the radio. xm channel when 19, am york, 106.1 in boston, and am 960 in the bay area. carol: and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus app. we have a big question to ask. what happened to all that bourbon? jason: apparently 200 bottles went missing. carol: yes, there were arrests made, but the case is still unsolved. jason: we have the story. >> you may have seen the headlines, there was the great papy vanwinkle bourbon heist, or so we thought in 2013. jason: and let's get that on the table, it's a now legendary and pretty famous bourbon. >> it is definitely considered very high-end bourbon. it's very well-known. most places can't even get pappy van winkle, it's so hard to find. that's why the theft of 200 bottles made headlines. it was valued at $26,000. if you were to go into a bar that carried it, there are 23-year-old vintages getting $100 per pour. not per bottle. it was considered a very premium bourbon and thus, might be the target for theft. jason: news of this alleged theft rocke

i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. here at bloomberg headquarters in new york. rol: coming up in this week's issue, a question. can the republican party survive a trade war? jason: we also look at the complicated relationship, to say the least, between vladimir putin and donald trump ahead of the big summit next week. carol: but we begin with our global cover story about tesla. jason: elon musk has made a lot of promises to investors and customers. can he live up to them? carol: building a car turning out to be pretty tough. jason: amazing. here is max. max: tesla quite famously for the last year and a half had been kicking the can down the road on its goals for its model 3, which is the mass-market sedan. but -- 35,000, jason: $35,000 the average. max: selling price for a car in the u.s. is somewhere around $30,000. $35,000 for the base model. it is the least expensive model tesla has to offer. there is a ton of demand for this thing, and yet, tesla has not been able to produce these in the numbers that they wanted. that has kind of led to this weird bifurcation

carol: i'm carol massar. you can find us online at businessweek.com. the features section, we find a bank that not many people have heard of, bank of the ozarks. carol: it is headquartered in little rock, arkansas. jason: it is getting a lot of attention from its competitors here on wall street. here is peter robison. peter: george gleason is one of the kinds of people who make new yorkers look like slackers. he is one of the more hard-working people i have ever met. he talks a lot about working 80 hours a week. he mentioned that he did not wake up at dawn to write his bank's earnings report, he woke up at midnight while he was on the road. he has found his identity in making his bank grow and making it grow efficiently. he can name eight marks off the top of his head, and he gives the scorecard in his pocket of where the bank ranks among the largest banks. according to him, it ranks at the top. jason: he has either been able to out hustle all of those rival bankers, or he has done a lot of deals that they would not and probably should not do. tell us a

carol: i am carol massar.an listen to us on sirius satellite radio and in boston, washington, dc, and in the bay area. jason: and in london. in the future section, we take a demographic problem in japan. the population is getting older and shrinking. carol: there are increasing demands for the services that clean out and dispose of the property the elderly leave behind. japan has had seven consecutive years of population decline. created as it has this whole industry -- is this whole industry of people who come and clean up the homes and find new homes for those goods. that is behind this from a japanese perspective? jillian: one of the things we cover is this japanese concept that is basically about the idea that things have a life beyond the life you have with them. things are reused. that is something in the post-world war ii economic boom seems to have been forgotten in a lot of the culture. thegs like the collapse of 1990's, the big earthquake and tsunami, brought that back for a lot of people. >> so many

i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. carol: coming up in this week's issue, a question.lican party survive a trade war? jason: we also look at the conflicting relationship between vladimir putin and donald trump ahead of the big summit next week. carol: but we begin with our global cover story about tesla. jason: elon musk has made a lot of promises. can he live up to them? carol: building a car turning

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i'm carol massar. jason: and i am jason kelly. ing up in this week's issue, a future with robot taxies. we will introduce you to a pioneering driverless startup. jason: and how best buy is surviving and may be driving in an amazon world. carol: first, we start with a cover story. we will take a look at president trump's trade policies. jason: we look at the applications of the policies around the world an

i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. we are joining you in new york. week's issue is about the space race. jason: it goes back to money. billionaires are pouring money into the space race.

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i'm carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. we are joining you in new york. carol: this week's issue is about the space race. jason: it goes back to money. billionaires are pouring money into the space race. carol: it does come back to money. our reporter took us to spacex. jason: a woman behind elon musk is making it all happen. max: gwynne shotwell is the coo and president of spacex. she has been one of the people closest to elon musk over the last year and a half. she is one of the people most responsible for turning this into something more than a wild set of dreams to land on mars. jason: where did she come from? max: she is from the midwest, north of chicago. she started at chrysler and moved into the aerospace industry. musk found her when there was not a lot there. it was like, we're going to make cheap rockets and make spaceflight cheaper and eventually get to mars. gwynne said, we will have to sell some of these rockets. she had to convince nasa and some of the private telecom companies to trust a rocket company that had never launched one. carol: sh

david: joining us now is carol massar..ssue is on go torts oshie has to saudi arabia to explain away a tweet. -- starts out she has to go to saudi arabia to explain away tweet. >> this is gwynne shotwell. it talks about elon musk making comments to a news affiliation before a launch of one of the rockets and says something like, it may work or it may not you do not do this if you run a rocket company. she had to go to london to say everything is going to be ok and she had to go to california for the launch. woman, one of three kids, she is an engineer. she talks about her mother taking her to an engineer society. it made her become a mechanical engineer. came to tesla, she went to spacex. there were a handful of employees. she gets along with elon musk and people say she is a rocket scientist, a star in her own right. business,s is a real it is $20 billion. maybe that is the successful way of doing it. what is interesting and this is something we should note, spacex changed the economics of space exploration in sending a r

i am carol massar. jason: and i am jason kelly. ou from bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: this week's issue is about the space race. jason: there is so much going on talking tinyare rockets and drug therapies at the international space station. carol: we are also talking comment mining. jason: it goes back to money. billionaires are pouring money

i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. here at bloomberg headquarters in new york. this week's issue, a question. can the republican party survive a trade war? jason: we also look at the complicated relationship, to say the least, between vladimir putin and donald trump ahead of the big summit next week. carol: but we begin with our global cover story about tesla. jason: elon musk has made a lot of promises to investors and

and carol massar. jason: and i am jason kelly. you with bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: coming up in this week's issue, a future with robot taxies. we will introduce you to a pioneering driverless startup. jason: and how best buy is surviving and may be driving in an amazon world. carol: first, we start with a cover story. we will take a look at president trump's trade policies. jason: we look at the applications of the policie

i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. carol: coming up in this week's issue, a question.party survive a trade war? jason: we also look at the conflicting relationship between vladimir putin and donald trump ahead of the big summit next week. carol: but we begin with our global cover story about tesla. jason: elon musk has made a lot of promises. can he live up to them?

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i am carol massar. jason: i am jason kelly. carol: a conspiracy to put a president on trial.on what the continent will be like without angela merkel. jason: and we go digital. we look at something happening all around the world, cash getting stolen using the internet. carol: ed robinson has more.

i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. here at bloomberg headquarters in new york. eek's issue, a question. can the republican party survive a trade war? jason: we also look at the complicated relationship, to say the least, between vladimir putin and donald trump ahead of the big summit next week. carol: but we begin with our global cover story about tesla. jason: elon musk has made a lot of promises to investors and customers. can he live up to them? carol: building

alix: carol massar, thank you very much.ind all the stories in the latest edition of bloomberg businessweek. coming up, g delivers eating earnings estimates for a second straight quarter. a look at what the company's turnaround plan is. check out bloomberg terminal. you can go to tv , click on our charts and graphics. scroll to the right hand side of your screen. check it out. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: ge reporting earnings this morning. it is still about the future of the company. in a recent bloomberg opinion column, brooks sullivan wrote just broke sutherlin wrote. joining us now is brooke sutherland. they beat and a said, the plan assigned to work. is that the right narrative? brooke: i don't know many people put much stock in ge's defined earnings numbers. they have taken steps report but you have a lot of -- you don't see it as industrial companies. i don't know how much people rely on that headline number. the big focus is on cash flow. ge cut its annual guidance for 2018 because it came up short in the second qu

. >> 2:00 to 5:00, with carol massar. tune in.ing up, sergio marchionne heading over the ceo and the challenges facing mike manley as ceo. this is bloomberg. chrysler saw a assets expanded more than 10 fold under sergio marchionne. -- be a chrysler -- fiat chrysler saw assets expand more than 10 fold under sergio marchionne. as marchionne tried and failed to do with gm. chris bryant joins us now from london. what would be the logical merger that would move the story along without marchionne? >> it is an interesting question. the partner in his eyes is gm. there are plenty of other companies who might find fiat's assets interesting. a strong franchise in the united states with jeep and ram which companies in europe might find interesting. that a buyer in china might one day approach. to doanley does not have a deal. the company is better these days than it was when marchionne took over. project aing he will message of steady as she goes. alix: what about management supporting mike manley? of mike an outlay someone- we heard resigne