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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