joel: you guys looked great. this is a gala meant to celebrate the people on the list and their accomplishments in 2019. carol: i remember having conversations at my table and we did a broadcast from there. people were loving the eclectic group. they were names that they didn't know about that they should. joel: bloomberg 50 is a way of using what we use better than anybody else, data. looking out across the various world of business, finance, and entertainment to say who has real impact and what is demonstratably that we can point to that is measurable. jason: we will hear from some of those honorees later in the show. i have to ask you about the new red scare. this is a story that caught our attention. and once you get into it, it is a little terrifying. joel: this is another story that "businessweek" has done multiple times. peter wallman has really delivered on this line of reporting. we did it as a cover story earlier in the year especially around what is happening in the medical and hospital worlds where we

joel: black business.hen you look at how we covered it, it shows not only the evolution of the magazine, but the evolution of the country and of the world in capitalism. carol: my point is those conversations reminding us some of the issues we're still talking about today. joel: it's amazing how much stuff comes up that feels contemporary, from economics to women in business and finance, all of them, these stories have been with us for years. jason: thanks a lot. carol: more on the 90th coming up. let's get back to the cover story of softbank's chief. jason: here's sarah mcbride in san francisco. sarah: we work is a small part of their total investment portfolio. we make the point in the article that masayoshi son's advisors were much more cautious about we work then he was. division fund only committed $4.4 billion to wework. fund onlyion committed $4.4 billion to wework. i mean only, but compared to softbank. the vision fund's commitment was relatively small. they got wework, and then they got much small

joel: it's great. jason: you look great for 90. joel: the magazine has been around for 90 years. we honor that with an essay on how businessweek has covered business through the decade. sometimes we mark moments that history hasn't looked back on so kindly. as a cover about the, death of equities there for a couple years afterwards looked so good, then doesn't look so good now. it's an amazing accomplishment this magazine has been around this long. are we the authoritative voice we've been on business? jason: so interesting talking to the people who put together that essay. their combined tenure is almost 90 years, in effect. joel: we don't go all the way back to 1929, ready for the -- right before the crash, but collectively, the people who worked on this essay can trace their lineage back to people they worked with who did it work back then. jason: thank you. 90th andr more on the its launch back in 1929 -- jason: someone who has spent three decades contributing to the magazine, it's economics editor, peter coy. peter: i was with the magazine from one third of my life, pretty p

editor of the magazine, joel webber.et us get more on that mistrust in the department of defense and how ties to china could prove fatal for applicants' security clearance. jason: here is our conversation , he joined uslman from san francisco. peter: so basically, this is a continuation of work i have been doing all year long on the whole question of whether or not we are overreacting in this country to the threat of chinese espionage, and specifically, the threat of the theft of intellectual property. this week's businessweek story is about an army engineer who essentially, by the fbi and military intelligence from the army. way,ilian engineer, or the and ultimately, his security clearance was taken away after over 20 years of stellar performance, including developing software systems that the n.s.a. uses for her medications and he's dropping and things like that best uses for communications and eavesdropping and things like that. he was of retirement age, it wasn't the biggest body blow, but he was humiliated and was a

we'll be hosting with joel weber.we'll be hosting the next weekend show on bloomberg businessweek. jason: for more bloomberg television, it starts right now. ♪ eÑ ♪ david: why is it that wall street doesn't value airlines as much as you think they should? ed: warren buffett said you guys are the chicago cubs of the business world. you had a bad century. david: initially, you went to frito-lay? ed: i consider that my postgraduate work. david: what percentage of people lose their luggage? ed: we never lose. we call it mishandled. david: mishandled. [laughter] >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪

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joel: it's great. we are old. we are really old. jason: you look great for 90. joel: i know, right? the magazine has been around for 90 years. we honor that with an essay on how businessweek has covered business through the decade. sometimes we mark moments that history hasn't looked back on so kindly. for instance, there is a 1979 cover about the death of equities that for a couple of years after, in the good and then in hindsight, it doesn't look so good now. it's an amazing accomplishment this magazine has been around this long. always being the authoritative voice on business. jason: it was so interesting talking to the people who put together that essay. their combined tenure is almost 90 years at the magazine, in effect. joel: we don't go all the way back to 1929, when we first started right before the crash, but collectively, the people who worked on this essay can trace their lineage back to people they worked with who did work back then. jason: thank you. carol: for more on businessweek's 90th and its launch in 1929 -- jason: someone who has spent three decades contributing

that's the strategy at this point. >> my thanks to you, lauren and joel.ve some breaking news, the white house has just released a readout of president trump's call with russian president vladimir putin. the statement says the two leaders spoke yesterday about continuing terrorism cooperation between the two countries and the state of relations between the united states and russia and future efforts to support effective arms control. this all comes after russia released its own readout of the unannounced call late yesterday. >>> coming up, civil rights icon and congressman john lewis announces he'll soon begin treatment for cancer. the latest on his condition and his fight ahead. aveenoith prtic iple oat complex balances skin's microbiome. so skin looks like this and you feel like this. aveeno® skin relief. get skin healthy™ i've always loved and i'm still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is p

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joel: we were very intentional.f our biggest inspirations around that was it is like an actual museum. when you walk into a museum you are not seeing the net worth of the creator of the wall, you are not seeing how many people have walked through that day, you are definitely not seeing emojis at the bottom of the work to tell you what to think about it. for vsco it was how can you have this personal connection, and how does this inspire you to go and create? from the beginning we are a our communityted that way, and we really do welcome others to that because it really is a positive step and the right direction for mental health and impact social media has on people. kurt: interested to see if that translates to other bigger platforms as well. joel, thank you so much for being here. plenty more global stories ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ kurt: this week in time we are looking back at 2019 to bring you the biggest tech trends. big companies like facebook, twitter and will headed to google headed to capitol hill to tes

joel: amtrak has been a money loser for years.t has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and they talked about his plan. a lot of people who are amtrak fans don't really like this plan of his. but it could lead amtrak to be profitable. carol: delays, delays. never on time, right? jason: it is richard anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. joel: just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybody is like, it does not seem to be so bad. a crazy time for the economy. at the background of this is the trade war. if there is any sort of resolution, even a phase i deal, you might think markets would pop on that. carol: your cover story, talking about what google is up to. i love the line about how silicon valley wore as a badge of honor that washing

react to that, joel.action of mitch mcconnell clearing going on to sean hannity and speaking to the president, in effect. >> they have no idea what the hell they're doing. i bet you one thing the president is tired of and it's having republicans testify against him because in adam schiff's committee, that's all it was, was career republicans or career diplomatic officials, members of our national security apparatus that he appointed to these key positions who are all validating everything that was in that whistle-blower complaint. so i'm sure he would like to mix up the trial a little bit in the senate and add in joe biden or hunter biden or others. >> and the issue is, as we listen to mitch mcconnell, the majority leader here, shermichael, is that all the senators become jurors and in that interview on sean hannity, he also did intimate that he had hoped all of the other senators, republicans in the senate, would vote with him. or be in lockstep with the president but they're jurors. >> right. i mean, i

joel, happy holidays you to, you're back to iowa and new hampshire. shaq, you have those frequent flier miles, just think about the vacation you'll be able to go on in a year. >>> "the washington post" is reporting a growing climate of mistrust and threats in the aftermath of the ukraine crisis. they talked to officials who believe it's putting our national security in a tenuous position. "the post" reports, quote, the new russia adviser in the white house, the third in just six months, has no meaningful background on the subject. the only expert on ukraine has never spoken with president trump, only been mocked by him publicly. and over in ukraine, quote, the u.s. embassy in kyiv will soon be without its highest ranking diplomat for the second time in a year as another ambassador departs after being undermined by the u.s. president and his personal attorney. glenn kirchner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc contributor, glenn, the concern among democrats as they've pursued impeachment has been that the president's actions related to national securi

joel weber, thank you so much. carol: a pushback.oros,soros, yes, that george soros, gets a little conservative. carol: they are indeed. this is bloomberg. ♪ carol: welcome back. carol massar. jason: i'm jason kelly. as for bloomberg on the radio. catch up on every daily show through our podcast. you can get it on apple podcast, soundcloud, or blumberg.com. carol: you can find us online. when companies buy their own shares? good question. the companies that come out on top. jason: our economics editor is here with his story and this week's businessweek explainer. >> last year, s&p 500 companies bought back $806 billion with of shares, 55% more than the year before. this year, on track for $740 billion, the second-most ever. one commissioner had his staff study 385 recent buybacks. morefound shares rose 2.5% than the days after buyback than otherwise expected. they also found twice as many had executive selling in the eight days after buyback announcement as they do on an ordinary day. the value is more than five times higher. when a

thank you, joel, we appreciate it.ese stories and more on bloomberg business week digital and on newsstands. in off the beaten streets we're going all the way to napa valley and is the location of the trofersal wine cave where pete buttigieg held a rally and drew a backlash with last night's debate and owned by billionaires craig and katherine hall and it boasts a chandelier, 1,500 swarske crystals and a banquet table that illuminates the $900 bottles the vineyard holds. according to the re/code, some of the guests in attendance include the wife of sergei brynn and the facebook of c.o.o., sandberg and they blasted the candidate for producing peacewinecave.com that redirects their investors and they had these two should not pick the president of the united states. amazing video. full body statement. cred sit starting to show signs of slipping so how sustainable is slipping. that's up next. if you're headed out and jumping in your car, join bloomberg radio, channel 119 on the bloomberg business app. this is bloomberg. ♪

scheme was devised by joel together with 4 out of ok 2 from saudi and another 2 from. the end i am management or one m b s odyssey will all be it all by joel they were all eating from the palms of jewel of los palms kept plenty for himself as well this luxury yacht seized by u.s. prosecutors is among the many things he is said to have bought with his wealth from the fund along with the castle paintings and a private jet. that's it from me and the d.w. business team here berlin you can of course find out more about these and other business stories on line a d w dot com slash business and also check us out on facebook and twitter i'm stephen bears in berlin let's watch. what keeps us in shape what makes us see. my name is dr carlson the i talked to medical expert. watch them at work. and i discuss what you can do to go ahead. state use and let's all try to state. the t.w. . was the speech of his life perhaps his best certainly his most difficult chancellor and much cooler addresses the people of east germany shortly after the fall of the wall. the crowd clamors for term

scheme was devised by joel together with 4 out of ok 2 from saudi and another 2 from. the end of the management or one and b b s odyssey were all paid off by giotto they were all eating from the palms of joel lowe's times kept plenty for himself as well this luxury yacht seized by u.s. prosecutors is among the many things he is said to have bought with his wealth from the fund along with the castle paintings and a private jet. yes that's it from me and the v.w. business team here for lead you can of course find out more about these and other business stories online at www dot com slash business and also check us out on facebook and twitter i'm stephen bears in berlin let's watch. a devastating debut for joy in slim smocks september lin couldn't keep up with dortmund's to maintain and slip into relegation ranks. by in the close in takes down by a munich's top. a lot for them a variance to hit the road 13 times. i'm secure in the they work that's hard and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here any more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. w

carol: let us bring in joel weber. reporter: a combination of amazing coverage from the abouterg team this year the listening devices. americans in particular really love these things. carol: we really love these things. joel: there have been some privacy concerns that the tech team has done and we bring it together in the cover story. jason: the bloomberg 50 was this week. what a night. you guys looked great. joel: this is a gala meant to celebrate the people on the list and their accomplishments in 2019. carol: the remember having conversations at my table and we did a broadcast from there. people were loving the eclectic names. way ofloomberg 50 is a using what we use better than anybody else, data. looking out across the various worlds of finance and entertainment to see who has had real impact. jason: we will hear from some of those honorees later in the show. i have to ask you about the new red scare. our is a story that caught attention. and once you get into it, it is a little terrifying. wallman has really del

reporter joel dahl roy he's been monitoring monitoring the news wires for some of the more ridiculous stories what have been seeing others well 1st of all merry christmas i'm hearing i have some visual presence for you of the silly season videos we're going to start off with some surfing sensors a charity event held out cocoa beach in florida attracted some $600.00. surfing santas to take pot they raised around $40000.00 for some nonprofits now look at $600.00 that seems like a lot of surface on one way vogue dot com it's a comfortable for all the other swimmers but i guess you can't complain if if it's santa you know surfing on your wave well it's not going to be comfortable in a sense anyway is it but at least it's for a good cause another thing you mentioned was the night of the radish you can have to explain that for us with a night of the radish you know the red and white fur right of what vegetable story is not a fruit of course is a root vegetable and. in mexico they have a festival every year where they cause these red stools with intricate patterns we can see a few of them he

z glenn kirchner, michael steel, joel payne join me. glenn, let me start with the president's letter today. it seems as if every time republicans have coalesced around a comfortable defense of the president, all he and rudy giuliani do is make it that much harder to stick by him if you're a skeptical supporter of the president. it felt like all his tweets in the last year in one letter. abuse of power, war on american democracy, election nullification scheme, more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. this letter, i guess it was simply -- it's simply an instruction packet for his supporters on social media because there doesn't seem to be any point to this letter as far as the process is concerned. >> i agree with you, chuck, and yet i have seen letters like this many times before as a federal prosecutor. >> is that right? >> oh, i have. whether i was prosecuting rico cases against some of the most notorious gang members in d.c. or standalone murder cases, these letters would come in not infrequently prior

joel. sure so as you say last friday there was a major fire in student accommodation up and vote and. as you point out it was caused or at least exacerbated by flammable cladding on the outside of the building and if you sort of video see if it was flames leaping up the exterior of the boating hundreds of students had to be evacuated and thankfully in this case there were no fatalities even though a couple of paper which trace it it is sane by emergency services so we had around about 200 firefighters trying to tackle this blaze. and this of course comes just 2 and a half years after the great intro tallit tragedy we have 72 people who lost their lives and it was again the result of being on the exterior of a child lock and which of course lead to widespread codes by fire feiss and boating safety experience for the removal of this little material from taleb locks raise in 2 areas which is yet to occur right and approximately how many other buildings are there and what this problem. what the

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but joel is 94 - no, no, no, joel is -- [ laughter ] yeah, anyway it is what it is >> seth: it is whatf people have commented on your haircut in the movie >> yeah. >> seth: that's not a wig, right? [ laughter ] that's the real deal [ cheers and applause >> that's real >> seth: are you -- very appropriate for the film are you happy it's grown out >> yeah, i'm happy to be done with it. [ laughter ] and, you know, the big lesson is, like, nobody cares and that's the lesson of life, i guess. >> seth: yeah. >> but i don't know. for things of hair, personality, whatever, you think people are -- no one cares. >> seth: yeah. >> no one cares. [ light laughter ] >> seth: i would imagine, though, you have a haircut like this, and you're on set. and it's, you know, all these incredible costumes, these incredible actors. and they all have their hair and wardrobe and then the minute you walk off the set, you must have a moment like, "oh, this is a weird haircut. >> oh, no, no, no. i have, like, an extraordinary hat collection that -- [ laughter ] yeah so, i got good at that also, like, isn't it - ma

joel, how big a deal is john kerry? obviously he did not win the presidency, and he represents kind of the older old guard, if you will, literally and figuratively. >> i think it's as significant as any other endorsement now. i think we're in an era where endorsements probably matter less. there are probably two or three democratic endorsements that are coveted, barack obama, michelle obama, maybe hillary clinton. that said, what it does demonstrate for the former vice president some momentum and it stabilizes what many people felt like was a cratering of support with the establishment base. this is good for him the same way it was good for pete buttigieg that he got the trio of endorsements earlier today. i think we're entering the phase of the campaign where we will start to see these endorsement wars start to take over our airwaves and our twitter feeds between now and iowa. >> and certainly it's an anti do antidote to the mike bloomberg effect, jumping in with a $31 million ad buy on day one. >> that's absolutely ri

dahl roy thanks for being here joel one lucky koala made it on to social media but there are many many more out there who weren't quite so lucky is a stray these environment minister says up to one 3rd of all koalas in one particularly hard hit region may have died in the recent fire season another estimate says that it could be around $1000.00 koalas that may have perished since this fire season began in september you've got to remember that from a very small population to begin with there's less than 100000 koalas in the wild or there's thought to be now this video was seeing here is actually not the only video thirsty koalas to emerge in recent months we've seen others and stray the ones are reaching into their pockets to try and help the koalas and online donation site has raised several $1000000.00 to try and fund drinking stations for koalas. regions now it's not guaranteed that that money will actually use for that cause all the stations could be built in time to help koalas in this particular fire season it's been a pretty devastating fire season bob by all accounts and a lot o

televangelist joel osteen is known to millions.the nation's largest church in houston. >> he has a new book out "the power of favor." robin roberts sat down for a one-on-one interview about that new book, his collaboration with kanye west. and their next new collaboration. >> god has put something on you that gives you an advantage. something that will open doors you can't open. something that will make you stand out in the crowd. it's called favor. >> "the power of favor," your 12th book. how do you define favor? >> favor is defined to me as god's empowerment. a blessing on your life that takes you where you can't go on your own. i believe talent can take us so far and education and what family you come from. then you reach limits. with god's favor he'll take you places you never dreamed. that wasn't a coincidence, that was the favor of god. >> having faith, having favor, doesn't mean we're not going to have obstacles to overcome. when you know you have god's favor, when you know he's breathing on your life, that gives you power t

joel, i'm going to start with you on that one. what in the world is rudy giuliani up to?policy sounds too regal, too kind for him. this is just plain old corruption. what rudy giuliani was engaging in was seeking to move a foreign leader out of power on behalf of his own potential clients, on behalf of a member of congress' constituents or business partners, quite frankly, and really was looking out for himself and the real big question is was he informing the president. did president trump know about this? and what was he telling president trump behind the scenes and obviously behind john bolton's back. this is part of a dirty pattern. this is consistent with the way giuliani has been behaving in multiple hot spots around the world. one doesn't know who he represents and he is really is in essence a walking crime scene. >> eleanor, let me read a part of this piece from "the post," saying this in part. his freelancing has triggered concerns among white house officials that his intersessions have muddied and at times undercut u.s. official policy. you have those folks in t

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david: many thanks to joel payne, i ran out of time, and jason johnson in austin, texas.t is a big day for u.s. china trade relations. we do not yet know how big it will be and what the parties have agreed to. ,e will talk to carla hills former united states trade representative. she was the trade representative under george h. w. bush. we will ask her view on where things stand with china and what comes next. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: from new york, this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. from bloomberg first word news, we go to mark crumpton. mark: is up to the full house of representatives to decide whether to impeach president trump. the house judiciary committee improved two articles of impeachment that accuse the president of abuse of congress. the democratic-controlled house is expected to make mr. trump only the third resident in u.s. history to be impeached. it is all but certain he will be acquitted and the republican-controlled senate. china and united states have agreed on the text of a phase one t

this is joel got, a wonderful producer of cabernet and other wines in california.his is a cabernet it's sourced from all over california from napa, sonoma, lodi. >> i like that, too. >> i love this, it has so much like luscious fruit and it's not aggressively tannic and delicious to drink and 15 bucks or so. >> this one, i can't believe you brought -- >> this is not wine. this is not wine >> i saw that. >> it's good for you as a morning drink. it's black pepper vodka. it's great in a bloody mary. >> what about raw? >> well, raw, it's -- if you take a tiny sip, i will suggest you take a tiny sip, you really do get that pepperiness. >> such peer pressure. >> a combination of black peppers and serrano peppers. it's not hot, it doesn't burn your mouth, but gives you that peppery flavor and when you think about it in a peppery flavor, it's spectacular. it's a small producer based out of charleston, south carolina. >> okay, it's not as gasoliny as vodka usually is, i'll give it that >> and then, you have to have some bubbles >> yes >> for new year's eve. >> and for new y

an account supports notably at with a few details on valves on the building of the brown you abby joel underground a huge. projects undertaken by a french company that's only one of the- contracts between france and the ivory coast. france which has a very strong presence here we have hundreds of businesses making up nearly thirty percent. all of- ivory coast gdp. thank you for that update. clevis kasauli the reporting for us from ivory coast. of course durining that short visit to ivory coast michael as far from strikes gripping fronts. and this friday marks the sixteenth day of this movement which is seen trains canceled. and roads with kim uses the strike eserver pensions reform proposed by michael. unions have found to defeat let's take a listen to some commuters across france much like myself they were all state how they feel about the continued disruption. christmas if the strike continues it will annoy everyone the strike has primarily i think everyone wants to go home and see their families it's a very important moment for the unity of families or even for national unity to see

we have research fellow, joel griffith. great to see you again.o you unseat, how do you toss out of office an incumbent president who is overseeing the longest economic expansion, thee longest bull market in u.s. history? >> only one of two-ways that can happen. either to convince americans not to believe their lying eyes at a time household incomes are at a record, jobs are plentiful, or you can resort to the politics of envy and that's what we see right now. the front-runner candidates, senator warren, senator sanders, that is what they're resorting to and envy is very powerful drug and powerful poison and destructive not only those that feel jealously but on policies that are implemented. >> warren has to raise middle class taxes on lower income middle class people. that is bernie sanders talking about taxes on 29,000. in other words, the policy of envy and jealousy, taking from others to pay for our big government. elizabeth warren fighting with pete buttigieg who says you're for free college tuition for millionaires. elizabeth warren says she

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joel? >> these are big data points here.t all income levels but those at the bottom tier are seeing their wages increase at a faster pace than anybody else, at a rate of nearly twice the rate of inflation. i think it is important to point out, this isn't just over the last month or last quarter even though those numbers have been good. this has been going on for several years. we are at an all-time high in household income, and you go back 40 years now, if you look at the percentage of people that are in the upper class and the upper middle class, that has grown dramatically over the past 40 years. we're seeing a continuation of that. liz: great to see you, joel. come back soon. coming up, we are going to stay on this subject, a bombshell new report, we already have sanders and warren government-run healthcare, it's the va. now this, a new scandal, the va watchdog says va officials improperly cancelled and delayed hundreds of thousands of medical tests for things like heart disease, problems with their brain, cancer, jeopard

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to allegations and i should say that there would be no substantiated me to allegations against you joel do you think companies might have used that to study this film but then i think that anything's possible i think that the most important thing you know for me is to is to be who i am to stand up in and be honest about my life in the things that i feel like i need to address you know this friday i'll celebrate 2 years of sobriety it's one of the greatest decisions i could have ever made in my life and i think that you know change takes time changes and immediate and whether that's a personal change or that's a corporate change or that's an environmental change everyone recognizes that we need to be having this conversation and you know there's a lot of times that the messages may come from imperfect messengers and listen i'm the 1st person to say i'm the further same from from perfect but i do believe that the message in this film is incredibly strong powerful and necessary well just finally and briefly today's kernel songes is birthday not sure whether your restaurant's going to be as