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CONTENTS
Bloomberg Businessweek
October 8, 2018
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Microchips found on
altered motherboards
in some cases looked
like signal conditioning
couplers
PHOTOGRAPH: BEN NELMS/BLOOMBERG
IN BRIEF
9
Tesla’s to-do list; India’s shadow banking collapse
AGENDA
10
Call it North Macedonia? Is global growth going south?
VIEW
10
The EU should forget “the right to be forgotten”
REMARKS
14
The world begins to chafe at the almighty dollar’s rule
1
BUSINESS
19
GM is reinventing Cadillac. Again
21
Poland’s sky-high plans to build Europe’s busiest airport
22
Netflix is making Hollywood pay
23
GE taps Larry Culp to fix the house that Jack built
2
TECHNOLOGY
25
Facebook bets that stories’ popularity won’t fade
26
Doors open for immigrant founders shut out by Trump
28
In a big quake, a slow wireless network could be deadly
29
ByteDance tops Uber as world’s most valuable startup
3
FINANCE
31
Women are more risk-averse than men, right? Wrong
33
Germany’s Sparkassen may burn the EU financial system
34
China’s P2P lending crash claims thousands of victims
ECONOMICS
37
Take Nafta, throw in some TPP,
et voilà
, USMCA!
38
A pipeline shortage leaves Canada out of the oil boom
40
U.S. growth can’t outpace the world forever
POLITICS
42
The sanctions muscle behind Trump’s Iran bluster
44
Running for governor—and running the election system
SOLUTIONS
46
The switch to paper straws won’t happen overnight
48
U.S.-Turkey relations could ground Lockheed’s F-35
49
Self-driving tech brings safer robots to the factory floor
PURSUITS
71
It’s all coming up roses for Hollywood florist Jef Leatham
74
How a brewer’s Free Beer Fridays helped heal St. John
76
A Memphis Group masterpiece you can live in
78
Author Rebecca Traister on the power of female rage
79
Scissors worth running for (but not with)
LAST THING
80
A class action vs. Microsoft—and high court precedent