The US House of Representatives has passed a bill with an ultimatum for TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance: sell the app, or be banned in the US.

Today on The Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Dan Flatley and Alex Barinka cover the national security concerns behind this bill and the potential geopolitical and tech industry consequences.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill with an ultimatum for TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance: sell the app, or be banned in the US.
Today on The Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Dan Flatley and Alex Barinka cover the national security concerns behind this bill and the potential geopolitical and tech industry consequences.

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What TikTok Tells Us About China’s Soft Power

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In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the US Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. One of their central findings is that there are about three million private business owners who have an average wealth of around $25 million. The research they conducted led to their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There.

On this week's Weekend Listen, Odd Lots co-hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk to Zidar and Zwick about how they measured the actual number of rich people in America, why income inequality started to rise in tandem with the growing number of pass-through businesses, and how it's possible that the collective revenue of the nation's dentists far exceeds that of the NFL.

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Tech’s New Rich Are Suffering From ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’
Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco’s AI Boom

In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the US Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. One of their central findings is that there are about three million private business owners who have an average wealth of around $25 million. The research they conducted led to their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There. On this week's Weekend Listen, Odd Lots co-hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk to Zidar and Zwick about how they measured the actual number of rich people in America, why income inequality started to rise in tandem with the growing number of pass-through businesses, and how it's possible that the collective revenue of the nation's dentists far exceeds that of the NFL.
Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/tech-s-nouveau-riche-suffer-sudden-wealth-syndrome-as-ai-pay-explodes?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=odd_lots&amp;utm_content=article" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="link">Tech&rsquo;s New Rich Are Suffering From &lsquo;Sudden Wealth Syndrome&rsquo;</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=odd_lots&amp;utm_content=article" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="link">Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco&rsquo;s AI Boom</a>

Weekend Listen: There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America

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People who fabricate artificial stone are getting sick with a deadly chronic illness—on that, there’s no debate. But whether it’s the individual shops or the material’s manufacturers who should be held responsible is the subject of a highly political dispute playing out across the US.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg labor reporter Josh Eidelson breaks down the consequences of this dispute for the industry and the people who work in it.

Read more: ‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers

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Host: Sarah Holder; Guest: Josh Eidelson; Produced by Julia Press; Edited by Naomi Shavin; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.

People who fabricate artificial stone are getting sick with a deadly chronic illness&mdash;on that, there&rsquo;s no debate. But whether it&rsquo;s the individual shops or the material&rsquo;s manufacturers who should be held responsible is the subject of a highly political dispute playing out across the US.
On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg labor reporter Josh Eidelson breaks down the consequences of this dispute for the industry and the people who work in it.
Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-14/silicosis-lawsuits-mount-as-workers-seek-billions-in-damages?srnd=undefined">&lsquo;Death Sentences&rsquo;: Crafting America&rsquo;s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers</a>
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Host: Sarah Holder; Guest: Josh Eidelson; Produced by Julia Press; Edited by Naomi Shavin; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.

Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers

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At this week’s UN General Assembly meeting in New York, an AI executive delivered dire warnings via video. President Trump threatened to annihilate Iran. China’s Xi Jinping skipped the meeting altogether. Eight decades after its founding as a guarantor of world peace, does the UN still matter?

On today’s Big Take podcast, what UN week and the Xi-Trump summit mean for global security and the future of multilateralism. Host David Gura speaks with Bloomberg’s managing editor for international security and economics, Nick Wadhams, and Bloomberg TV’s chief political correspondent Annmarie Hordern.

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Hosted by David Gura; Produced by David Fox and Naomi Ng; Guests: Annmarie Hordern and Nick Wadhams; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott; Engineering by Emma Munger.

At this week&rsquo;s UN General Assembly meeting in New York, an AI executive delivered dire warnings via video. President Trump threatened to annihilate Iran. China&rsquo;s Xi Jinping skipped the meeting altogether. Eight decades after its founding as a guarantor of world peace, does the UN still matter?
On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, what UN week and the Xi-Trump summit mean for global security and the future of multilateralism. Host David Gura speaks with Bloomberg&rsquo;s managing editor for international security and economics, Nick Wadhams, and Bloomberg TV&rsquo;s chief political correspondent Annmarie Hordern.
We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/subscriptions/podcasts">Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer.</a>
Hosted by David Gura; Produced by David Fox and Naomi Ng; Guests: Annmarie Hordern and Nick Wadhams; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott; Engineering by Emma Munger.

This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ UN

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What TikTok Tells Us About China’s Soft Power

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