something that we can certainly look at again. >> thank you. >> next council member, co chair jim blackston, a question? >> i am blind and have a guide dog, a service animal. have you reached out to people like me in the disabled community who have service animals and can you tell us about that? >> in terms of access to taxi service or paratransit? >> yes, yes. >> yeah, i would say that we have an ongoing relationship with the blind community and have representatives on our paratransit coordinating council and have specific requirements related to service animals and so, yeah, that's something that has been folded into our program from the beginning. now if you're talking about uber and lyft that's a different conversation but we don't have jurisdiction over uber and lyft. certainly on the paratransit side, yes. >> that's great because there's situations where on the taxi service we have been denied and i won't go into that, it's an ongoing problem. >> well, and what i would say is that i encourage everybody to if -- you have an issue on taxis call 311 and report it and we investigate every

jim: our goal is to have enough capital, but not too much. emily: tpg has remained private while your competitors are publicly traded, whether it is blackstone,le. do you think tpg will still go public, and if so, when? jim: it is still unclear to me. we have no real desire to go public. emily: but there were plans to go public, and those plans were shelved. jim: they were shelved, and the reason was because we said we will only do it if we think we need to do it. and what has become clear to me is that those who have gone public are maybe not as pleased with being public has they might have anticipated. there is now capital available in the private markets for companies like tpg also. why go public if you don't have to and don't particularly want to? emily: jim coulter, cofounder and ceo of tpg, it has been great to have you. thank you. ♪ retail. under pressure like never before. and it's connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing rooms. that's why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent network speed across multiple locations. every corporate office, warehous

jim: our goal is to have enough capital, but not too much. emily: tpg has remained private while your competitors are publicly traded, whether it is blackstone,lyle. do you think tpg will still go public, and if so, when? jim: it is totally unclear to me. i have had this question for 10 years, and i have answered it the same way, we have no real desire to go public. emily: but there were plans to go public, and those plans were shelved. jim: they were shelved, and the reason was we constantly said we will only do it if we think we need to do it, and what has become clear to me is that those who have gone public or maybe not as pleased with being public as they might have anticipated. there is now capital available in the private markets for companies like tpg also. why go public if you don't have to and don't particularly want to? emily: jim coulter, cofounder and co-ceo of tpg, it has been great to have you. jim: thanks, emily. ♪ >> from new york city, i am jonathan ferro with 30 minutes dedicated to fixed income. this is bloomberg "real yield." ♪ jonathan: no real change of the fed, why the new boss sounds like the old boss. the prospect of

jim: i think our goal is to have enough capital, but not too much. emily: tpg has remained private while your competitors are publicly-traded, whether it's blackstone, e. do you think tpg will still go public someday, and if so, when? jim: it's totally unclear to be. we have no real desire to go public. and if you look at -- emily: but there were plans to go public, and those plans were shelved. jim: they were shelved, and the reason why is because we said we will only do it if we think we need to do it. and what's become clear to me is that those who have gone public, may be not as please with being public as they might have anticipated, there is now capital available in the private markets for companies like tpg also. why go public if you don't have to and don't particularly want to? emily: jim coulter, cofounder and ceo of tpg, it's been great to have you. jim: thanks, emily. ♪ is this a phone? or a little internet machine? it makes you wonder: shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. see h

jim: i think our goal is to have enough capital, but not too much. emily: tpg has remained private while your competitors are publicly-traded, whether it is blackstone, carlyle. do you think tpg will still go public someday, and if so, when? jim: it is totally unclear to -- me. i have had this question for 10 years and i have answered it the same i. we have no real desire to go public. and if you look at -- emily: but there were plans to go public, and those plans were shelved. jim: they were shelved, and the reason why is because we said we will only do it if we think we need to do it. and what has become clear to me is that those who have gone public are maybe not as please with being public as they might have anticipated, there is now capital available in the private markets for companies like tpg also. why go public if you don't have to and don't particularly want to? emily: jim coulter, cofounder and ceo of tpg, it has been great to have you. jim: thanks so much. ♪ ♪ emily: he is one of the most well-known tech titans of china. kai-fu lee got his start at apple, then moved on to microsoft, then sparked a lawsuit when he left to run google in chi

jim: our goal is to have enough capital, but not too much. emily: tpg has remained private while your competitors are publicly traded, whether it is blackstone, you think tpg will still go public, and if so, when? jim: it is still unclear to me. we have no real desire to go public. emily: but there were plans to go public, and those plans were shelved. jim: they were shelved, and the reason was because we said we will only do it if we think we need to do it, and what has become clear to me is that those who have gone public or maybe not as pleased with being public has they might have anticipated. there is now capital available in the private markets for companies like tpg also. why go public if you don't have to and don't particularly want to? emily: jim coulter, cofounder and ceo of tpg, it has been great to have you. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to the "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." here are the major stories for the region this week. egypt suffers its worst terrorist attack in modern history, but why didn't the markets seem to care? what are the implications and -- e.m. investors? bitcoin goes ballistic. it smashes through $10,000