Indonesia has embarked on an ambitious project to build a new capital city from scratch because Jakarta is overcrowded, polluted and sinking, fast.

But the multibillion dollar new city, Nusantara, was plagued with problems from the very start. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Faris Mokhtar about what went wrong, and what’s at stake for Southeast Asia’s largest economy if it fails.

Indonesia has embarked on an ambitious project to build a new capital city from scratch because Jakarta is overcrowded, polluted and sinking, fast.
But the multibillion dollar new city, Nusantara, was plagued with problems from the very start. On today&rsquo;s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg&rsquo;s Faris Mokhtar about what went wrong, and what&rsquo;s at stake for Southeast Asia&rsquo;s largest economy if it fails.

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Indonesia Is Building a New Capital. It’s Not Going Well

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A new series from the Big Take podcast investigates the booming market for human eggs.

In this episode, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg’s Jessica Brice focus on the Kemptons, an Australian couple who needed donor eggs to get pregnant. They wanted access to a market they felt offered transparency. They especially wanted information about potential donors. What followed was an around-the-world quest to create a family — filled with promise, gutting losses and extreme cost. 

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A new series from the Big Take podcast investigates the booming market for human eggs.
In this episode, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg&rsquo;s Jessica Brice focus on the Kemptons, an Australian couple who needed donor eggs to get pregnant. They wanted access to a market they felt offered transparency. They especially wanted information about potential donors. What followed was an around-the-world quest to create a family &mdash; filled with promise, gutting losses and extreme cost.&nbsp;
Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-fertility-egg-trade/?srnd=undefined">The Egg</a>

The Human Egg Trade: Episode 3 - The Journey

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Every year, senior markets editor Sam Potter reads predictions for the year ahead from leading financial institutions around the world. The theme of this year’s predictions: uncertainty.

One event on the horizon has contributed to both their predictions for 2025 and the uncertainty in a unique way: Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Potter joins host David Gura to unpack what financial institutions are expecting for this year, given what they know and what they don’t.

 

Read more: Here’s (Almost) Everything Wall Street Expects in 2025

 

Every year, senior markets editor Sam Potter reads predictions for the year ahead from leading financial institutions around the world. The theme of this year&rsquo;s predictions: uncertainty. One event on the horizon has contributed to both their predictions for 2025 and the uncertainty in a unique way: Donald Trump&rsquo;s return to the White House. Potter joins host David Gura to unpack what financial institutions are expecting for this year, given what they know and what they don&rsquo;t.
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Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-investment-outlooks/">Here&rsquo;s (Almost) Everything Wall Street Expects in 2025</a>
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We Read Hundreds of 2025 Market Predictions So You Don’t Have To

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2024 was the year AI broke into the music industry. Record labels that had fought AI-generated songs at every turn started to consider how they might want to use AI tools. But as the technology creeps into more parts of the music production process, not everyone agrees on where to draw ethical and legal lines.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Grammy Award-winning producer Timbaland, Universal Music Group executive Michael Nash, Bloomberg audio reporter Ashley Carman and host Sarah Holder examine who stands to benefit from the AI-music boom — and who has the most to lose.


Read more: Ashley Carman’s Soundbite newsletter

2024 was the year AI broke into the music industry. Record labels that had fought AI-generated songs at every turn started to consider how they might want to use AI tools. But as the technology creeps into more parts of the music production process, not everyone agrees on where to draw ethical and legal lines.
On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, Grammy Award-winning producer Timbaland, Universal Music Group executive Michael Nash, Bloomberg audio reporter Ashley Carman and host Sarah Holder examine who stands to benefit from the AI-music boom &mdash; and who has the most to lose.
 Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AVqLhKvqFik/ashley-carman">Ashley Carman&rsquo;s Soundbite newsletter</a>

The Year AI Broke Into Music

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Indonesia Is Building a New Capital. It’s Not Going Well

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