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Bloomberg Business

Business Health

America’s Covid Swab Supply Depends on Two Cousins Who Hate Each Other

The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.

Olivia Carville Bloomberg Business Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business Politics World

The Plot to Steal the Color White From DuPont

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

Del Quentin Wilber Bloomberg Business Feb 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

Charlie Devereux, Franz Wild, Edward Robinson Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 10min Permalink

Business

The Legend of Nintendo

How the 130-year-old game company bounced back with the Switch.

Felix Gillette Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company

What happened at OneTaste?

Ellen Huet Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Science

This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean

Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Business May 2018 15min Permalink

Business Sports

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business May 2018 25min Permalink

Robert Mercer’s Secret Adventure as a New Mexico Cop

Why would a billionaire go wear a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that’s impossible to buy.

Zachary Mider Bloomberg Business Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Business Religion

This Multibillion-Dollar Corporation Is Controlled by a Penniless Yoga Superstar

Baba Ramdev renounced the material world twenty-three years ago to become a Hindu ascetic. Now he’s on TV selling toothpaste, instant noodles, and toilet cleaners and the company he is believed to control is poised to become the biggest consumer goods seller in India.

Ben Crair Bloomberg Business Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Business World

A Chinese Company Has Conquered a Piece of America

Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.

Matthew Campbell Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

Has Anyone Seen the President?

A trip to the White House briefing room and Steve Bannon’s living room.

Michael Lewis Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 35min Permalink

Tech

How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda

Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

Lauren Etter, Vernon Silver, Sarah Frier Bloomberg Business Dec 2017 10min Permalink

Business

If Unilever Can’t Make Feel-Good Capitalism Work, Who Can?

The consumer giant looks to social responsibility in the age of big business.

Thomas Buckley Bloomberg Business Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Science

Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City

The dark, tangled truths coming to light thanks to subterranean cartography.

Greg Milner Bloomberg Business Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Business Food

The Illuminati of Cheese

Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.

Clint Rainey Bloomberg Business Jul 2017 10min Permalink

The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks

A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

Simon Akam Bloomberg Business May 2017 15min Permalink

Business Music

This Lawsuit Goes to 11

The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. Now they are suing for $400 million.

Robert Kolker Bloomberg Business Apr 2017 15min Permalink

Business Politics

How Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump

Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States.

Caroline Winter Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Business Crime

‘Bro, I’m Going Rogue’: The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI

Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.

Zeke Faux Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Business

Big Tobacco Has Caught Startup Fever

“It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.”

Felix Gillette, Jennifer Kaplan, Sam Chambers Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Business Crime

Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder

Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?

Monte Reel Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 20min Permalink

Business

I’m Renting a Dog?

Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”

Patrick Clark Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Business

Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other

The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.

Katherine Burton Bloomberg Business Nov 2016 15min Permalink

Business

Out With the Poor, In With the Rich

The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.

Simon van Zuylen-Wood Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink

Science

Florida’s Feud Over Zika-Fighting GMO Mosquitoes

“Today it’s a mosquito. Tomorrow God only knows what is going to happen.”

Robert Kolker Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink

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