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January 23 — January 29, 2017 | bloomberg.com DECEPTION, DENIAL, AND DEUTSCHE An Italian scandal haunts the most important bank in Europe p36 “WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION. YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE VERY PLACE!” p42 1 “I am certain many in “One might expect a successful “Mr. Trump is negotiating strategy to have 100 percent opposed the Saudi leadership ambitious objectives and a credible to what you do for have sleepless nights fallback position. May certainly has the former, but we doubt the prime a living, and we can’t on Yemen” minister has the latter” help you” PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSS MANTLE FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK BLOOMBERG FOR MANTLE ROSS BY PHOTOGRAPH p12 p15 p22 Cover Trail January 23 — January 29, 2017 How the cover gets made ① Opening Remarks Technology is opening up opportunities for the disabled 6 “The story’s on Deutsche Bank. They’re wrapped up in a scandal Bloomberg View Trump’s reckless trade talk • Another way to curb “black money” in India 8 involving an attempt to hide hundreds of millions of euros in losses at an Italian bank.” Movers Trump and Brexit lift Goldman and Morgan Stanley Bye-bye, big top 11 “Do you mean to tell me that a bank Global Economics may have acted deceptively and that corruption may even have been The limits of Saudi Arabia’s power are exposed in Yemen 12 at an institutional level?” Fed-up Brazilians look for someone to Make Brazil Great Again 14 “Yes.” No one’s calling the U.K.’s prime minister “Theresa Maybe” anymore 15 “A bank? The type of company that, since the founding of the The good times roll in Quebec’s job market 16 very first bank, has always behaved with honesty and wisdom, and with Companies/Industries the best interests of the public in mind? A bank, that shining beacon The next president could give Big Pharma a huge headache 18 of light in a dark world full of nastiness and cruelty?” Amazon sees a prime opportunity in non-Prime shoppers 19 “Are you done?” Brazil’s brewers find they need to sell more than sexism 20 Politics/Policy “Yes.” A completely different kind of lobbying firm for a completely different kind of president 22 A little-known ethics official picks a high-profile fight with Trump 24 Scott Pruitt has spent years attacking the EPA in court and out. Now he’s been tapped to run it 25 2 Technology To hire more women and minorities, tech turns to ... well, let’s just call it Diversity 2.0 27 The face of Facebook’s carefully managed Facebook page 28 Hey, you, cut the cost of my cloud 29 Mobile-gaming company Lightneer wants to teach kids about quarks 30 Innovation: An ultrahigh-resolution DSLR camera that will fit in your pocket 31 Markets/Finance Startup Behavox is using AI to build a sort of Minority Report for rogue traders 32 Low-cost-fund giant Vanguard keeps quiet about its own executives’ pay 33 Homebuilders are confident they’ll see a Trump bump 35 Features Italian Job How Deutsche Bank helped the world’s oldest bank hide a €367 million loss 36 Capital Carp The VC kid who went to Kentucky to turn a trash fish into a cash cow 42 Cyber Screw-Up Mauritania hired an upstart to tap its cell networks. It did not go well 48 Etc. 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