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This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC Bloomberg Bloomberg Issue 9 July — December 2018 SPECIAL SECTION DISRUPTION’S FALLOUT Hard-to-explain topics, explained simply Trade War .................................................p20 Saudi Arabia’s Shift ..............................p32 Why Women Earn Less ......................p55 Inside Volatility .....................................................p22 The Recycling Crisis ............................p46 Sports Betting ........................................ p57 $800b Market value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in January 2018 QuickTake $1t Size of Norwegian fund considering fossil-fuel divestment 34 Countries taxing sweetened beverages to reduce sugar 38t consumption Number of microbes, mostly beneficial, living in the human gut Issue 9 July — December 20 1/2 105m Share of world’s recyclable 2021 83% Square feet of U.S. retail space paper and plastic once Expected first delivery of China’s C919 jet Vladimir Putin’s average 18 shuttered in 2017, a record exported to China challenging Boeing and Airbus approval rating since 2015 BZ9_Quicktakes_Covers.indd 1 6/8/18 11:59 AM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC 2 BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 2 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 1 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC We hope you enjoyenjoy thisthis editionedition ofof QuickTake QuickTake magazine magazine.as a benefit You of areyour receiving Bloomberg this Businessweek as a benefit ofsubs beingcription. a Bloomberg Terminal customer who enrolled in home delivery of all Bloomberg print Remembermagazines.Get to take to advantage the of yourpoint other valuable subscriptionof the benefits, news.including: As a valued terminal customer, you have access to● several Unlimited Bloomberg access Media benefits● Bloomberg including to BusinessweekFirst Word on the Bloomberg sto Terminalries and Businessweek Talks— FREEmobile home delivers delivery 40 laser-targeted, of actionableBloomberg Markets and on Bloomberg.comsubject areas, curated by experts who know Monthly subscriber-only Businessweekwhat you need — andmagazines what you don’t. as well as unlimited webcasts connecting you accessChoose to yourBloomberg.com channel and focus on the content through sectors, companies, and topics that matter. with our editors and experts BBG <GO>.Because the point of the news is you. for in-depth conversations On-Terminal at FIRST <GO> Learn more at bloomberg.com/first-word about what matters most in global business ● The Bloomberg ● Subscriber-only Businessweek app newsletters featuring featuring new, must-read curated summaries of content every day key developments in the global news cycle Thank you for being a loyal Bloomberg© 2017 Bloomberg L.P. 45922 BusinessweekTerminal 1017 customer. subscriber. BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 2 6/8/18 12:30 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC Editor’s Letter In a knowledge economy where ideas and information matter, conveying understanding has become more important than ever. Sometimes what’s needed is an Get to the point explainer, rather than a standard news story. It’s in this light that I introduce the ninth edition of QuickTake magazine. In succinct, authoritative guides, of the news. Q&As and graphics, QuickTakes provide a fun-to-read entry point for current and complex issues. You can use them to get smart fast on financial trends, global affairs First Word on the Bloomberg Terminal and and public policy puzzles. mobile delivers 40 laser-targeted, actionable A library of more than 350 QuickTakes can be found subject areas, curated by experts who know what you need — and what you don’t. on the Bloomberg Terminal at QUICK <GO>; individual stories can be found on the web. These are living articles, Choose your channel and focus on the revised and updated as events unfold, with links to videos sectors, companies, and topics that matter. Because the point of the news is you. and more resources for curious readers. I hope you’ll find the time with QuickTakes well spent. On-Terminal at FIRST <GO> Learn more at bloomberg.com/first-word John Micklethwait Editor-in-Chief Bloomberg July 2018 © 2017 Bloomberg L.P. 45922 1017 3 BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 3 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 4 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC Contents July — December 2018 Managing Editor Cyberwarfare Leah Harrison Singer By Jordan Robertson and Editors Graphics Editors Laurence Arnold Laurence Arnold Samuel Dodge Lisa Beyer David Ingold The dogs of war are now digital. Grant Clark Dave Merrill Nations have turned to cyberwarfare Anne Cronin Alex Tribou to attack everything from weapons Paula Dwyer Hayley Warren systems to power grids. p31 John O’Neil Chloe Whiteaker Copy Editors Photo Director William Elstrom Clinton Cargill Nicholas Mullan Brennen Wysong Contributing Photo Editor Creative Director Jane Yeomans Chris Nosenzo Disruption’s Fallout Energy & Environment Production Contributing Susan Fingerhut The Amazon Economy p8 Buzzwords p44 Art Directors Kenneth Machlin- Retail Apocalypse p9 OPEC Fights Back p45 Shawn Hasto Lockwood Crypto’s Many Questions p10 Divesting Fossil Fuels p46 Saxton Randolph The Touch-Screen Generation p12 Russia’s Grip on Gas p47 Cover/Contents Facebook’s Stumbles p14 The Recycling Crisis p48 Illustration Net Neutrality p15 Carbon Capture p50 Matthew Hollister Earthquake Readiness p51 To contact the editor responsible for QuickTakes Leah Harrison Singer Economy & Finance [email protected] Health & Society +44-20-3525-2936 Buzzwords p18 Trade War p20 Buzzwords p54 Soft Landing p21 Why Women Earn Less p55 Find Bloomberg QuickTakes Volatility p22 China’s Two-Child Policy p56 ● On the Bloomberg Terminal at Short Selling p24 Sports Betting p57 QUICK <GO> Sexual Harassment on Wall Street p25 Americans and Their Guns p58 ● On the web, along with QuickTake Where Brexit Hurts Most p26 The Human Microbiome p59 videos, at bloomberg.com China’s Jet Challenge p27 Sugar p60 World Affairs Buzzwords p30 Saudi Arabia’s Shift p32 Yemen’s Crisis p34 The Future of Jihad p35 Vladimir Putin p36 Europe’s East-West Rift p37 South Africa’s Chance p38 Wave Election p40 Venezuela’s Collapse p41 5 BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 5 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC Chapter 1 DISRUPTION’S FALLOUT BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 6 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC p8 How Amazon is scaring businesses from banks to grocery stores p9 U.S. malls are quiet, even though times are good p10 The big question about Bitcoin is still, “What is it?” BZ9_Quicktakes01_disruption.indd 7 6/8/18 1:05 PM This document is being provided for the exclusive use of O'MALLEY AVANT at SAOS CAPITAL LLC The Amazon Economy By Shira Ovide If you order office supplies for your company, buy groceries for dinner, download a movie, lock the doors with a smartphone app, ask your smart speaker for tomorrow’s weather forecast and lay your head on a new hypoallergenic pillow, there’s a chance you’ll be doing it all through a single company: Amazon.com Inc. The company that started out selling books online in 1995 is now serving consumers, and frightening businesses, in a vast array of sectors. With superior technological know-how and a tolerance for paper-thin profit margins, the world’s biggest online retailer may prove to be the world’s biggest disruptor. What’s Amazon disrupting now? making it the second-largest private shopping experience. So has Amazon’s Take a deep breath. It’s taking aim employer in the U.S. behind Walmart fast door-to-door shipping, “free” to at financial services, health care, Inc. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and the more than 100 million members physical retail stores, groceries, chief executive officer, is now the world’s who this year will pay $119 to belong to fashion, corporate data storage, digital richest person. its Prime shopping club. The company assistants, robots, gadgets for every is profitable now but for many years room in the home and package handling What’s Amazon’s secret? tolerated losses or meager profits while by land, sea, air and drone. In just five The scope of its online megamall, with it pushed into new markets. Amazon years, Amazon Studios has become items numbering in the hundreds of also has popularized a form of cloud a significant force in entertainment. millions — many costing less than what computing that has wreaked havoc on Overall the company employs more than traditional merchants charge — has sellers of computer equipment and 560,000 full- and part-time workers, changed consumer expectations of the software to businesses. 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