jason: we are still here with joel weber. e midterms loosening -- looming large.how do you cover them. joel: we try to find case studies. we think this gubernatorial race in georgia is one of them. stacey abrams could be the first female black governor in u.s. history, and she is going head-to-head with brian cap, who is straight out of an americana ad. he has explosions and guns. stacey abrams represents what americans hope will happen, this massive demographic shift that should benefit them. the early turnout seems favorable. it is three times as much as it was a couple years ago like we learned. but now it is a question of what can be sustained. it will be close the matter what, everybody agrees on that. it is one of those case studies i think everyone will be watching for. carol: i love the magazine because you are staying on the news in what is going on in the middle east and midterms, but you do a special section on retail this week, and it too is in the news considering the bankruptcy. joel: that is the best part of thi

here is joel weber on this week's cannabis cover, and the other big stories. w do you get into the pot business? joel: we wanted to step back for a moment and look at it through an investing angle. this is not a users guide, it is an investment guide. it feels like there is so much hype. is there hype, or real substance? one of the interesting things i took away was the amount of institutional money that is doubled down in that space. when you look at the major shareholders, it is like vanguard infidelity. -- we areooking at starting to see up north with canada legalizing in just a matter of days what could become a massive opportunity that we will see how it spreads. jason: you also look at the future of money. , a set ofy story stories this week, given what happened in the markets. joel: what we wanted to do with this package is talk about as everything digitizes, what does it mean for money and investing? what does it mean for how you invest your savings? one of my favorite stories is about jon stein, who created betterment. it is the original robo-adviser.

joel weber, thanks so much.oming up, it was spooky quiet until markets were hit one week ago by a storm that came out of the clear blue sky. what changed and why? carol: we just talked about sears finally selling out. we will have more on that story. jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar. jason: and i'm jason kelly. join us for "bloomberg businessweek" every day on the radio from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. wall street time. you can also catch up on our daily show by listening to our podcast. carol: and you can find us online at businessweek.com, and on our mobile app. this week, president trump targeted the fed again, calling it his biggest threat. jason: he blamed its monetary policy for last week's sharp selloff in the stock market. we spoke with peter coy about the nasty surprise and what is worrying investors moving forward. peter: the stock market has been remarkably calm. the five calmest quarters of the last 20 years have come since the beginni

carol: we talked about all of them with joel weber. el: there is a presidential braziln on sunday in which everyone is watching -- is watching and is supposed to be landslide for bolsonaro. it would be a major shift for one of the continent's great population centers. brazil is great. we are probably going to see a shift to the right. what we will see is a shift to the right with him. jessica leeds back to the white house. barrettan insider, tom who's been around the middle , east for much of his career and an insider in the trump world. carol: or is he? joel: tom barrack was a big reason trump got a lot of wall street interest. he helped put trump into an interesting position. that was also at inauguration and a whole celebration, tom was in charge. ever since then, things seemed to have gone totally awry. comey, we talked about this huge company that has suffered ever since he put all of his weight behind trump. jason: he played middleman between the trump administration and all the middle east interests, both economic and political.

carol: we talked about this with joel weber. joel: there is a presidential election on sunday result that is supposed to be a landslide for bolsonaro. we are probably going to see a shift to the right. what we will see is a shift to the right with him. jason: we have an insider, tom, who's been around the middle east for much of his career and an insider in the trump world. carol: or is he? joel: tom barrack was a big reason trump got a lot of wall street interest. he helped put trump into an nteresting position. that whole celebration at the inauguration, tom was in charge. ever since then, things seemed to have gone totally awry. here was this huge company that suffered ever since he put all of his weight behind trump. jason: he played middleman between the trump administration and all the middle east interests, both economic and political. saudi arabia continues to ominate headlines. joel: the geopolitical elements of this almost have a biblical level of intrigue to it. we continue to watch that evolved. barack play role becau

carol: we talked about this with joel weber. el: there's a presidential election on sunday in brazil, which everybody is watching. it is supposed to be a landslide for bolsonaro. this would be a major shift for one of the continent's great population centers. brazil is huge. we are probably going to see a shift to the right. jason: coming back to the u.s., tom barrack has been around the global finance industry around , the middle east for much of his career, and very much an insider in the trump world. carol: or is he? masterpiece.ory, a barrack was a big reason trump got a lot of wall street interest. he helped put trump into an interesting position. that was why also at and ogg duration, that whole celebration , that wholeion celebration barrack was in charge of that. things seemed to have gone awry. there was this huge company that suffered ever since he put all of his weight behind trump. jason: one of the interesting roles he has played is middleman between the trump administration all of the middle east's interests, econom

carol: we talked about this with joel weber.nl: there is any lecturing sunday -- an election on sunday in brazil, supposed to be a landslide for bolsonaro. are probably going to see a shift to the right. we have an insider, tom, the middlearound east for much of his career and an insider in the trump world. was athis story -- tom big reason trump got a lot of wall street interest. he helped put trump into an interesting position. that whole celebration at the inauguration, tom was in charge. things seemed to have gone awry. that was this huge company suffered ever since he put all of his weight behind trump. middlemanplayed between the trump administration and all of the middle eastern's interests. saudi arabia continues to dominate headlines. joel: there is a host a biblical level of intrigue, with the -- almost a biblical level of intrigue, with the geopolitical implications. tom was the man in the middle east for trump for a long time. this peels back another layer to what is actually happening. carol: the cover story this we

jewel weber, thank you. -- joel webber, thank you.iberal16,000 resistance volunteers secretly recruited to fight for the democrats in the upcoming november elections. host 1: plus, we follow the brain drain. host 2: we want to bring you a quick peek on how this week's cover -- how do you illustrate the big hack? we illustrated it with a tiny chip. trying to show it to scale. we played with a lot of different things to show the comparison. the image of a penny or a pencil tip. we used the finger. once we had the image, we figured out how to do the type and a way that was brief and hit you right away. final result is impactful and clean and concise. ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg daybreak: australia." jason: join us every day. carol: you can also find us online at bloomberg businessweek.com. jason: a few things going on may play a big role in the upcoming midterm elections. about a month away. creation spotlight the of a quiet army of 16,000 liberal resistance volunteers. you heard that right -- 16,000. they have been secretly recr