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Introducing: The Big Take

Oct 19, 20223 min
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Each weekday, The Big Take brings you one story—one big, important story that impacts your life. Host Wes Kosova talks to Bloomberg journalists around the world, experts in their fields and the people at the center of the news to help you understand what’s happening, what it means and why it matters. Money, politics, the economy and business, energy, the environment, technology—we cover it all on The Big Take. And we do it in plain English.
The Big Take features the best of Bloomberg's in-depth, original reporting from around the globe. Listen each weekday starting on Oct. 27.


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Up next, we're getting some performing instructures. I have some more breaking news now. There is so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of the second the UK's longest serving monarch has Your phone is lowing up with news alerts, your social feeds are chirping all the time, and with the constant flood of information coming at you, it can feel impossible to make sense of it all. That's why we're launching

The Big Take. It's a new daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit to give you some space to think. I'm West Kasova. Each weekday, I'll dig deep into just one important story and talk about why it matters. You'll hear conversations with Bloomberg's journalists and analysts around the globe and the people at the center of the news that affects all of us.

They were really worried that this winter people wouldn't be able to pay their bills, wouldn't be able to heat their homes, and it's really shown how kind of broad the impact energy prices has on everything that we do. And the Big Tag we delve into markets and money. For the last few decades, the global economy and global markets have become addicted to cheap money. We talk about business, economics and politics. I don't think that this is the last time that an election is going to be contested.

The laws don't concern me as much as the people do, and we explore science and health, the environment, and tech. The big four Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are under fire as they have never been before. This is the closest to a moment of reckoning that they've ever seen. Stories that touch how we live our lives each day, and we do it in plain English. The big change US is the Biden administration is really putting the spotlight

back on consumer protection. That comes to fees in your cell fum bill or airline tickets where all those prices are coming from, or even investments in your portfolio? Are you paying too much? People who really know their stuff, who can break down the news in a way that helps you see things more clearly. Ross you have sat face to face with Vladimir Putin? What is that like? Well? The interesting thing is that, of course you have to go through the pretense of translation, so you ask him

a question in English. He gets a translation into Russian when he clearly understands what you're saying, because he reacts when you ask a question. He sometimes frowns, or he grimaces, or it looks annoyed or and we know you don't have extra time on your hands, so we keep it crisp to fit into your day. Join me for The Big Take week days starting October on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen

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