Equity takeover of the finance section. Carol i enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is this weeks cover story. Bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber joins us now. Private equity touches us in so many ways. Joel we couldnt keep listening to jason go on and on. When we got together about the different ways private equity touches us, we realize there was a bigger story here, which was in the last decade, since the financial crisis, nobody won this decade as much as private equity. Jason now weve got questions and thats how this story shaped up. You posed them to a lot of us in the newsroom. Joel we realized there was a lot of different places we want to go. The fact d. C. Has carried interest. So far, thats bit untouchable. If things change in d. C. , we might see that change. Carol we did see lobbying in terms of private equity firms. They are spending tons of money. Joel tons of money. Also returns. Everyone wants big returns. A World Without yield anywhere, how do i get roi . Private e
Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed viewed as a stepping stone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. With autopilot, which is viewed this cover story is an ethics course of how do we get there . Tesla is already doing this in real time with autopilot, and other companies have been not quite as bold as what tesla has chosen to do. Carol joel, dilemma is right. The more miles we get on the road with something, the better. There is so much data involved in making this better, but in the interim, youre going to lose some lives. Joel thats right, that is the moral calculus that we are living in right now b
Equity takeover of the finance section. Carol i enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is this weeks cover story. Bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber joint is now. Private equity touches us in so many ways. Keep listeningt to jason go on and on. When we got together about the different ways private equity touches us, we realize there was a bigger story here, which was in the last decade, since the financial crisis, nobody won this decade as much as private equity. Jason now weve got questions and thats how this story shaped up. You post them to a lot of us posed them to a lot of us in the newsroom. Joel we realized there was a lot of different places we want to go. The fact d. C. Has carried interest. So far, thats bit untouchable. If things change in d. C. , we might see that change. Carol we did see lobbying in terms of private equity firms. They are spending tons of money. Joel tens of money. Also returns. Everyone wants big returns. A World Without yield anywhere, roi . O i get roy
Section. Carol i enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is this weeks cover story. Bloomberg businessweek editor joel weber joint is now. Private equity touches us in so many ways. Joel we couldnt keep listening to jason go on and on. When we got together about the different ways private equity touches us, we realize there was a bigger story here, which was in the last decade, since the financial crisis, nobody won this decade as much as private equity. Jason now weve got questions and thats how this story shaped up. You posed them to a lot of us in the newsroom. Joel we realized there was a lot of different places we want to go. The fact d. C. Has carried interest. So far, thats bit untouchable. If things change in d. C. , we might see that change. Carol we did see lobbying in terms of private equity firms. They are spending tons of money. Joel tons of money. Also returns. Everyone wants big returns. A World Without yield anywhere, how do i get roi . Private equity promises that. Jason some
Brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. This is one of the hallmarks of businessweek, these strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keeps going up under the ceo. In the past six months, he has really doubled down on tech. Carol that is something that i did not realize. He has made a bunch of acquisitions in ai, Voice Recognition technologies. Earlier this month was his latest. What we are seeing is mcdonalds transitioning from being a Fast Food Company to looking more and more like a tech company. There are cameras at drivethrough that can scan your license plate and maybe even remember what