How to Rebuild an Island - December 18, 2017 Issue

December 18, 2017 Issue

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How to Rebuild Puerto Rico

Remarks

Remarks

The Republicans’ Problem Is Bigger Than Alabama

By Joshua Green

Roy Moore.

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Saudi Arabia Should Lift Its Yemen Blockade

By The Editors

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Business

Business

The Retail Apocalypse Is Fueled by No-Name Clothes

By Matthew Boyle

The Retail Apocalypse Is Fueled by No-Name Clothes

Apple and Wal-Mart Are Helping China Crack Down on Polluters

By Lulu Yilun Chen

Operations At K-Electric Ltd.'s Bin Qasim Power Plant As Controlling Shareholder Abraaj Capital Plans To Sell Stake

The Next High Hurdle for America’s Pot Industry

By Jennifer Kaplan

The Next High Hurdle for America’s Pot Industry

P&G Becomes Improbable Supporter of Ingredient Disclosure Rule

By Lauren Coleman-Lochner

P&G Profit Forecast Trails Estimates

Technology

Technology

You Only Have to Be Rich, Not Healthy, to Fly in Space

By Justin Bachman

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This Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market

By Ashlee Vance

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Who’s Watching Facebook TV?

By Shira Ovide

For Bloomberg Businessweek

This Toaster-Size 3D Printer Can Make Drugs

By Michael Belfiore

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Finance

Finance

Why Google and Amazon Keep Fidelity and BlackRock Up at Night

By Sabrina Willmer and Nishant Kumar

Why Google and Amazon Keep Fidelity and BlackRock Up at Night

It’s Closing Time for Toronto’s Strip Clubs

By Katia Dmitrieva

Zanzibar Tavern is in a great location—for condo developers.

Leon Cooperman Loves Navient. He Thinks It’d Be Better Off Dead

By Shahien Nasiripour

Leon Cooperman.

North Korea’s Bitcoin Play

By Dune Lawrence

North Korea’s Bitcoin Play

Economics

Economics

It’s Trump’s Fed Now

By Peter Coy and Christopher Condon

The boardroom at the Fed’s Marriner S. Eccles building.

Canada’s Oil Capital Turns to Amazon and Airlines to Make Up for Price Plunge

By Kevin Orland

Canada’s Oil Capital Turns to Amazon and Airlines to Make Up for Price Plunge

What’s on the Table in the Euro Overhaul

By Viktoria Dendrinou

European Central Bank, Frankfurt.

Politics

Politics

Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Hands Iran a Powerful Tool

By Donna Abu-Nasr

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A U.S. Station Switched From Bluegrass to Radio Sputnik—and Got Threats From the Feds

By Bill Allison

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Trump Takes Credit for Killing Hundreds of Regulations That Were Already Dead

By Alan Levin and Jesse Hamilton

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How the Populist Right Is Redrawing the Map of Europe

By Andre Tartar, Hayley Warren, Cedric Sam, Samuel Dodge and Jeremy Diamond

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Focus/Risk Management

Focus/Risk Management

Will Cape Town Run Out of Water?

By Michael Cohen

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Fees Rise for Underfunded Pensions

By Katherine Chiglinsky and Brandon Kochkodin

Fees Rise for Underfunded Pensions

How Hollywood Insures Against Actors Behaving Badly

By Anousha Sakoui and Christopher Palmeri

Director Ridley Scott decided to remove Kevin Spacey (pictured) from a finished movie, All the Money in the World, and refilm scenes with a substitute actor, Christopher Plummer, in the role of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

Features

Features

How to Rebuild Puerto Rico

By Monte Reel

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Pursuits

Pursuits

These 27 Strategies Will Make Philanthropy an Effective Pursuit

By Mark Ellwood, Margaret Collins, Sara Clemence and Chris Rovzar

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Chef José Andrés’s Simple Advice for Helping Those in Distress

By Kate Krader

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This 11-Year-Old Philanthropist Helps Girls Love the Skin They’re In

By Nikita Richardson

This 11-Year-Old Philanthropist Helps Girls Love the Skin They’re In