The Bloomberg 50 - December 4, 2017 Issue

December 4, 2017 Issue

The Bloomberg 50

The Bloomberg 50

By Bloomberg Businessweek

Remarks

Remarks

The Best Way to Spur Growth? Help the Poor, Not the Rich

By Peter Coy

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Using Forests to Fight Climate Change

By The Editors

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Business

Business

Wal-Mart Already Has a Thriving Online Grocery Business—in China

By Rachel Chang

An employee fills electronic orders in a special storage room for the one-hour delivery platform at a Wal-Mart store in Shanghai.

The Future of Cirque du Soleil Isn’t the Circus

By Sandrine Rastello

Visitors to the NFL Experience in New York get a player’s-eye view of the game.

Ford’s Key to Selling Truck No One Asked For: Keeping Beer Cold

By Keith Naughton

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Technology

Technology

How GM Bought Its Way to the Front of the Driverless-Car Pack

By David Welch

How GM Bought Its Way to the Front of the Driverless-Car Pack

Cutting Down on Cow Burps to Ease Climate Change

By Eloise Gibson

Cutting Down on Cow Burps to Ease Climate Change

‘Angry Birds’ Hatches Angry Investors

By Kati Pohjanpalo and Ville Heiskanen

‘Angry Birds’ Hatches Angry Investors

Finance

Finance

Stock Wealth Surges for the Oldest Americans While the Young Miss Out

By Jordan Yadoo and Ben Steverman

Stock Wealth Surges for the Oldest Americans While the Young Miss Out

The Unlikely Strategy Behind Buffett’s Investments in Encyclopedias

By Noah Buhayar

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China’s Unlucky Tycoon: The ‘Canal Madman’ Keeps Finding Trouble

By Blake Schmidt and Pei Yi Mak

Wang Jing of HKND Group gives a thumbs up at the inauguration of the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Tola, Nicaragua, on Dec. 22, 2014.

Economics

Economics

The Lunch That Could Make or Break Brexit

By Tim Ross

The Lunch That Could Make or Break Brexit

The U.S.-Mexico Wage Gap Is Actually Widening Under Nafta

By Eric Martin and Nacha Cattan

Demonstrators Protest On The First Day Of NAFTA Renegotiation Talks

Drought and Neglect Have Decimated Iraq’s Breadbasket

By Alex Dziadosz

Iraqi Kurdistan is destroying the key to independence â its farmers

Politics

Politics

The CFPB: Center for Partisan Bickering

By Robert Schmidt

Budget director Mick Mulvaney (center) walks back to the White House from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington after he showed up for his first day of work as the CFPB’s acting director on Nov. 27.

Putin Has a Rebellion Brewing in His Backyard

By Leonid Ragozin

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Truthfeed Spreads Pro-Trump Propaganda

By Benjamin Elgin

Truthfeed Spreads Pro-Trump Propaganda

Putin Is a Force in the Syria Talks, With Trump on the Sidelines

By Henry Meyer

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Features

Features

The Bloomberg 50

By Bloomberg Businessweek

The Bloomberg 50

Watch These People in 2018

By Bloomberg Businessweek

Watch These People in 2018