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Mom Knows Best

When entrepreneurs really listen to their customers, their businesses can transform. That’s what Michelle Kennedy learned when building Peanut, a social networking app that set out to help moms make other mom friends…but has become about so much more.

Don't be a brand. Be a voice.

Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross spent 10 years getting a hair care company off the ground.One thing is clear:The message matters as much as the product.

What Avengers: Infinity War Can Teach Us About Business

The movie shows that diverse individuals can work together to overcome extraordinarily daunting challenges.

Venezuela's Maduro Bucks The Tide

Embracing capitalism and the dollar, the embattled president lures émigrés home

Stave Puzzles Will Drive You Wild

How a tiny manufacturer of wooden jigsaw puzzles created an addiction that high achievers just can’t kick

YouTube's Shyest Superstar

The internet’s most popular kids’ channel is run by a skeleton crew and owned by a 55-year-old guy in a quiet California suburb

Martyrdom in The Time of Xi

The death of a persecuted whistleblower is the gravest political challenge to China’s Xi Jinping yet

WHEN TRUMP DOESN'T LOVE YOU BACK

JSW Steel, a big fan of the president’s tariffs, is suing to be exempted from them

INNOVATE RINSE REPEAT

Procter & Gamble, age 182, is coming after eco-friendly soap sellers, organic tampon makers, and other upstarts of the digital era

Scaling Mount Everest In Vermont

To feel pain is to feel alive. And millionaire life coach Jesse Itzler has a unique method to inflict it.

From Micro- Credit To Major Debt

Tala and other startups are flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans. Are they empowering the poor or profiting from desperation?

What Use Does WallStreet Have for Newspaper?

Warren Buffett just gave up on local news. But other investors look even less friendly

What Trump Can Do To Juice the Economy

With Democrats in control of the House, more fiscal stimulus is likely off the table.

We're Not Ready for This

As epidemics spread with unprecedented speed, public policy is not keeping pace

We have your Files Send bitcoin or else...

The time I sabotaged my editor with ransomware I bought for $150 on the dark web

The Mess Iowa Made

A muddled outcome and low voter turnout made the country’s first presidential primary contest an unmitigated disaster for Democrats.

The Economic Pain Is Mild, So Far

But no one knows how bad the outbreak will be, and the damage to globalization could linger

NO CITY HATES ITS LANDLORDS QUITE LIKE BERLIN

ACTIVISTS SAY THE NEW FIVE-YEAR RENT FREEZE IS MERELY A GOOD START. WHO’S UP FOR EXPROPRIATING SOME PRIVATE PROPERTY? BY CAROLINE WINTER AND ANDREW BLACKMAN

He Still Runs $121 Billion - A Crude, Sexist Joke Cost Ken Fisher $4 Billion In Assets

Some big investors were quick to drop the money manager. But his sales machine is doing just fine

Buy Your Way Into the Aristocracy

For €80,000 and up, you too can be a lord or lady

A Weather Startup Takes Flight

Windy.com is moving beyond extreme-sports fans with its hyperlocal forecasts

THE CONCIERGE CONUNDRUM

Will artificial intelligence and virtual reality spell the end of the hotel concierge?

Taking the fifth

The freedoms of the air are the bedrock of the aviation industry – and the fifth is perhaps the most important

Building bridges

Along with its new airport, Turkey’s biggest city has seen a raft of improvements that are bolstering its appeal as a business and leisure destination

WORLDS BEYOND

Conveniences connected or citizens surveilled? The future comes into focus at CES2020

Seattle

The urban buzz is palpable, yet lush greenery, towering mountains and Puget Sound make for a peaceful easy stopover

Fertile Fields

Best known as the home of pandas, the business scene in Chengdu is anything but black and white

Clear As Crystal

For meetings, bleisure time or retreats, Crystal Springs is the perfect place to escape in style and luxury

Baja Rising

Laid back Los Cabos lays on the luxury

A Day In The Life Of Global Trade

Viewed from a desk on wall street, trade can look like an inaccessible agglomeration of breathless headlines about escalating economic wars and sterile data. Yet up close, the buying and selling of goods and services is an astonishing organism: Here, geopolitical decisions and the markets’ responses to them have daily physical consequences. ¶ To capture an ordinary day during this extraordinary period in the history of the global economy, Bloomberg Markets deployed reporters across the world to see the inner workings of trade up close. From storefronts in Seoul and Tokyo to border crossings in Africa and the Middle East, Wednesday, Dec. 4, was ostensibly a day like any other. What the reporters saw were the nuts and bolts of a global economy that—whether because of the march of technology or the consequences of rising protectionism and shifting trade patterns—is confronting an inevitable and possibly irreversible wave of change.