Before we toast to the weekend, I want to bring you a conversation that I had and I had alone with Lisa Barlow. She's the founder of Vita Tequila. She's also, of course, a real housewife of Salt Lake City.And she spoke about working in the spirits industry for almost 20 years. And now she's expanding her liquor portfolio. And she talked about her role on Real Housewives and how that's helped her grow her business.Take a listen. So we started in 2003 working on the brand launch in 2007 at the Sundance Film F ...

I wanted to thank the countries that helped me put this together. Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and so many others. So many people fought so hard.This is a big day. We'll see how it all turns out. We have to get the final word down and concrete.Very importantly, I look forward to having the hostages come home to their parents. ...

Give me the one minute version. How can I be happy. So the world says that for you to be happy, and this is based on mother nature.This is not capitalism. Mother nature doesn't care if you're happy. So she imposes this on you.She says for you to have the best life, you need to love things. Get a lot of them. Use people.They're there for your advancement and comforts and worship yourself because you're the center of the universe. That's what the world tells you. That's what your nature tells you. That's wron ...

This is a story about the essential economy. That's what Ford CEO Jim Farley calls the part of the US market where things get built, moved, or fixed. This week, he held a series of meetings at the restored Michigan Central Rail Station in Detroit, and we traveled there to hear directly from him what needs to be done. -95 million people, huge part of our GDP, that basically build things. Think about factory workers, construction workers. The people who move things, rail workers, truck drivers. And the people ...

Hamas has agreed to release all Israeli hostages captured in that October 7th attack, but said the rest of President Donald Trump's 20 point peace plan would be subject to negotiation. Let's get the latest on that. For that, we do head to our Bloomberg intelligence senior defense analyst Wayne Sanders joining us.Wayne, this feels like a big development, but again, with caveats. Walk us through what's significant and what's still to be known. I think the fact that they're doing anything at all at this point ...

The US government is almost at a standstill after Democrats and Republicans failed to come to an agreement over the spending package for the new fiscal year. The shutdown has caused a freeze in some critical federal programs. Among the biggest losers have been investors and policymakers who rely on key economic data from government agencies.The Labor Department releasing a contingency memo ahead of the funding lapse, saying if a deal between Congress and President Trump was not reached by October 1st, the B ...

This is a story about the need to be good as well as lucky. Australia has been lucky in the natural resources that have been driving its uninterrupted growth for three decades. But now it needs to be good in innovation and investing to keep that growth going, as our colleague Haidi Stroud-Watt reports from Sydney.- Australia has long been known as the lucky country, a land of sun, surf and abundant resources. Yet for those looking to drive its future, fortune has been harder to find. -We now find ourselves ...

Things have compressed. And so the public markets are near all time targets and below investor investment grade private credit. We've seen spreads compressed, we've seen terms become more aggressive.And so that is obviously an indication of, again, a supply demand imbalance. But why we're comfortable and I think from a macro perspective, we're still quite comfortable because if you look at the macro data that's coming out still, you know, you basically have an easing cycle. So the data suggests that the eco ...

There are tremendous opportunities for Canada. And I would say to Southeast Asia, and you heard me say this before, come to Canada. I mean, you know, we're here at the Milken Institute.We're talking about capital. So much of the capital today is talking about where is it that they can actually find places for global diversification. I would say Canada is a great place because the other thing we hear from so many of the capital investors here is they're looking for predictability.They're looking for countrie ...

The past three, four years for Africa and for African consumers have been really, really tough. Yeah. In the in the nine countries where we are operating, huge currency volatility, huge pressure on customers and consumers, high inflation, we had countries with like 50% inflation and all that didn't help for us as online retailers.It means that suppliers were not importing goods from Asia or anywhere because they could not commit the cash because they had no idea of currency volatility in the next six months ...