." ♪ carol: we are with the editor in chief of "bloomberg businessweek," joel webber. el, this whole issue is devoted to be quality. it looks at different angles and a global perspective. joel: yeah, we wanted to have a flag in the sand that said let's talk about one of the most important things happening right now. it ties with the conference we are hosting here at bloomberg, the equality issue. i wanted to build the issue around it. we cast a wide net through the newsroom looking for stories that we thought were profound. we spoke to "the times," because we are living through a moment, right now, and we wanted to capture the spirit of the moment in the magazine. jason: this is me too, times up, and clearly, a lot related to sexual harassment and gender in the work ways. -- place. but well beyond that, i mean, you really dig into areas of finance and areas of corporate culture as well. joel: this is about business. the business of equality. that is what the edition is called, "the business of equality." that gets underneath all of these other stories. there is also a b

carol: time to check in with our editor joel webber to see what stood out for him.th him,going ai of course, but we also talked about turkey, president erdogan,. of thiswe put all together, we noticed one theme that we really wanted to capture , artificial intelligence. it is sort of changing everything, it's like making money, driving cars, just upending business as a whole and freaking people out. and he really cap some amazing writers to bring this to us. we really just outsourced it to ashlee. [laughter] placeswere able to go to that most people don't know about. like the oral history of artificial intelligence, and canada has been this driving force. justin trudeau is in the issue, saying that, did you know that canada is this mecca for ai? jason: going beyond, what else jumped out at you? >> we had an ongoing theme of trying to talk to world leaders. ,e had another one from turkey which is in everyone's eyes because erdogan, who has been there for more than a decade, has strengthened his grip on power. some exclusive interviews with him in london this week, an

." ♪ jason: we're back with the editor of businessweek, joel webber.e section, fantastic story about a college endowment at a place that doesn't get a lot of headlines, carthage going up against the big boys in terms of returns. tell us about this. joel: this one is a great one. carthage, anybody know where that is? carol: no. joel: a small endowment is run by a guy in his home office in charlotte. it has been, over the past year, than it percent of his competitors. the secret sauce is index funds, vanguard index funds. carol: nothing fancy. jason: this blew my mind. having watched private equity and hedge funds for a long time we worked on a lot of these , types of stories together. the big managers saying you can only get these returns, they point to david swenson, they look at harvard, and this guy is like, plugging in index funds. less than half of 1% and you are going to get great returns. joel: he was a beer executive. carol: this is what i love. joel: he came up through schlitz. you can't make this up. early off he starts managing this endowment