Bloomberg Businessweek USA - October 30, 2017

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CONTENTS Bloomberg Businessweek October 30, 2017

16 Now it’s Apple’s turn
to try to be Netflix

18 Undoing Jeff Immelt’s
legacy at GE

19 They call Wang Chuanfu the
Elon Musk of China, but really
it’s the other way around

23 Amazon got one
prime deal in Ohio ...

24 ... now the company is
searching coast to coast
for another bargain

26 To dig the safest, cheapest
mine, just wire everything

28 Europeans are reaching out
online to deradicalize jihadis

31 How to profit
from human nature:

First you have
to understand
your own

33 Unleash your bond fund?
Not so fast

34 The cost of investing drops
toward zero

 REMARKS


12 Spain’s cosmopolitan harmony
has vanished in Catalonia

 IN BRIEF
10 ○ Shinzo Abe wins a third term ○ Sears and Whirlpool split ○ For winemakers, 2017 is not a good year

 VIEW
14 In India, Indonesia, and
Myanmar, fake news
is more than just
disruptive—it’s deadly

50 “I haven’t


frowned
since 1987”

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BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY


39 The Chinese market


is a world apart


41 Mexican workers—not
Nafta—are the reason
companies go to Mexico

42 Efforts to curb American
addiction create a
disaster for Tasmanian
poppy farmers

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ECONOMICS


PERSONAL
FINANCE

45 The state of State:


What’s Rex Tillerson
up to?

47 When it comes to pipelines,
America First promises
prove problematic

49 Xi Jinping introduces
his new supporting cast

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POLITICS

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