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How Nike Started a Sneaker Arms Race

Its high-tech running shoe, used to break two marathon records, raises concerns that technology may have trumped ability

A Fix for The U.S. Health-Care Crisis – Four Walls and a Roof

The country’s largest health insurer is giving apartments to homeless people—not as an act of charity, but to drive down the extraordinary cost of caring for them.

Riches From Rags

Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade.

Lagos Is Facing Its Bottle Problem

With plastic beverage container use doubling in three years, pressure to recycle is building

Code Storage

When Civilization Collapses, At Least Our Software Will Be Backed Up

Politics – Tear Gas Chokes Hong Kong

The densely populated city is feeling the effects of 6,000 cans of tear gas

K-Pop's Moment Of Truth

South Korea’s squeaky clean export is reckoning with an unprecedented scandal

Jason Kelly - Chief Executive Ginkgo Bioworks Inc.

One of the leaders in the buzzy synthetic biology space is Ginkgo Bioworks, a company with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and a valuation of $4.2 billion. CEO Jason Kelly spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber about how his disruptive technology could change the world, from the cell on up.

Fit Enough For A Pharaoh

Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo has to bare it all onstage, so he developed a shockingly fast workout you can use, too.

India's Stressed Banks

“This is the classic crisis of confidence”

The Walking City

A sign in victoria-Gasteiz alerts drivers to the pedestrian paradise ahead.

The Global Fertility Crash

As birthrates fall, countries will be forced to adapt or fall behind.

Temple Of The Sun

The world’s great powers can’t agree on small steps to tackle climate change, but they’re cooperating on a huge leap of faith in southern France.

Paying With Plastic

A woman collects plastic on Sanur Beach to supplement her income

The Great Reawakening

Two decades ago the U.S. government tried to break up Microsoft Corp.

U.S. Economy – Counting on Consumers

If the U.S. economy manages to sustain its record-breaking expansion into 2020, it will be because U.S. consumers didn’t lose their nerve despite all the talk of recession.

California Goes Solar

Starting in 2020, California will become the first U.S. state to require almost all new homes to draw some power from the sun.

A Great Unwinding Appears Nigh

When Globalfoundries Inc., the California chipmaker, filed patent lawsuits against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this August, it was tapping into growing fears that the war for the future of silicon will be fought along stark geopolitical lines.

China Follows Russia's Lead on Taiwan

Holger Chen cuts a fierce profile with his skull-tattooed biceps, each bigger than a human head, and the oft- broken nose of a mixed martial arts fighter.

The 737 Max Tries To Regain Altitude

After grounding their Boeing 737 Max fleets for most of 2019, airlines expect to resume flying the once-hot-selling plane in early 2020.

The Big Test

In her office at RBC Capital Markets in Lower Manhattan, stock market strategist Lori Calvasina has been looking at the polling charts of 2020 presidential candidates the way she looks at stock charts.

It's Private Equity's World. That's A Big Deal

Private equity managers won the financial crisis. A decade since the world economy almost came apart, big banks are more heavily regulated and scrutinized. Hedge funds, which live on the volatility central banks have worked so hard to quash, have mostly lost their flair. But the firms once known as leveraged buyout shops are thriving. Almost everything that’s happened since 2008 has tilted in their favor. Low interest rates to finance deals? Check. A friendly political climate? Check. A long line of clients? Check. The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management. In a world where bonds are paying next to nothing—and some have negative yields—many big investors are desperate for the higher returns PE managers seem to be able to squeeze from the markets. The business has made billionaires out of many of its founders. Funds have snapped up businesses from pet stores to doctors’ practices to newspapers. PE firms may also be deep into real estate, loans to businesses, and startup investments—but the heart of their craft is using debt to acquire companies and sell them later. In the best cases, PE managers can nurture failing or underperforming companies and set them up for faster growth, creating outsize returns for investors that include pension funds and universities. But having once operated on the comfortable margins of Wall Street, private equity is now facing tougher questions from politicians, regulators, and activists. One of PE’s superpowers is that it’s hard for outsiders to see and understand the industry, so we set out to shed light on some of the ways it’s changing finance and the economy itself.

The New Zermatt

Backed by Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris, Switzerland’s Andermatt is a new skiers’ paradise that’s been around for years.

You Gotta Smash A Few Cars To Make An Autonomous Vehicle

Tesla’s Autopilot could save the lives of millions. It will kill a few of us first.

The Arctic High-Speed Internet Scam

Elizabeth Pierce promised to bring superfast internet cables through the Northwest Passage and managed to scam a billionaire oligarch the CEO of Warner Music Group, and the FCC chairman.

How To Put AI In Team

A startup says it can use algorithms to screen a more diverse pool of Wall Street job seekers.

The Curse Of A Silicon Valley Midcap

Cloud company Box is stuck in a sales rut, and activist Starboard just walked in.

Another Industrial Giant May Break Up

What do garbage disposals have in common with factory automation tools? Not much, but Emerson Electric Co. will gladly sell you both, at least for now.

Winter's Wild Ride

The annual Snow Polo brings the global jet set to St. Moritz for a weekend of sport and swagger.

'You Are Signing Up To Build Weapons'

Tech’s most controversial startup, founded by A 27-year-old Gamer and backed by Trump’s favorite billionaire, makes attack Drones