Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2019-10-14)

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◼ CONTENTS Bloomberg Businessweek October 14, 2019

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CORRECTION “Buyouts Push Companies to the Limit. Or Over It” (Finance, Oct. 7) said the median debt multiple

for recent private equity deals in 2017 was more than 10 times Ebitda. The correct figure is 5.4. YALE LAB: GEORGE ETHEREDGE/BLOOMBERG

◼INBRIEF 5 Trump’staxes● Trump’stradewar● Trump’sSyriaswitch

◼OPINION 6 MikeBloomberg:Thepresidentis violatinghisoathof

office and abusing his power, and Congress must act

◼ REMARKS 8 Diesel engines are choking London

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BUSINESS 12 Chinavs.theNBA?Therealsportsstoryis Antavs.Nike

14 Aramco’son-again,off-againIPOis onagain—promise

16 The Crown is nice, but does it have a singing neon parrot?

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TECHNOLOGY 19 ▼ To fight cancer, take out the body’s trash

21 ChinesetechfacespressurefromtheU.S.—anditsworkers

24 Biohackers, “for the love of God, stop stabbing yourself”

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FINANCE 26 Tradingcommissionsaredead,bute-traderswilllive on

28 HelpingWallStreetcasta widerrecruitingnet

30 A new risk in China’s shadow banking industry

ECONOMICS 34 U.S.businessis havinga crisisofconfidence

35 A blacklistcomplicatestradetalks

36 At the Bank of Japan, desperation is the mother of invention

POLITICS 39 TrumpandErdoganhandPutina win

40 AMLO’spartydebatesitsfuture—radicalorpragmatic?

42 Airport nightmare: Gun owners carrying in carry-ons

SOLUTIONS/ 45 Boxmaybeforcedtogetout of its box

THECLOUD 47 Oracle changes direction

◼PURSUITS 75 ThecaviarcavalcadeofSt.Moritz

78 Puffercoatsarefinallyfashionable

79 Skihotelsforluxurylodgers

80 Revivinga lostwinterwonderland

83 Clear mountain views—in any conditions

◼ LAST THING 84 What does D.E. Shaw have in mind for Emerson Electric?