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The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. Every afternoon.


Big Take

For Beijing, the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was a mixed bag -- an embarrassing surprise, a wake-up call over its alliances in Latin America and an opening to step up on the world stage, according to Nicholas Burns, the former US ambassador to China.
 
On today’s Big Take, host David Gura and Ambassador Burns discuss how President Donald Trump’s military actions and threats are reshaping China’s relationships across the Pacific and the Taiwan Strait—and how the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” could ultimately hand China a global edge.
 
Read more: How Maduro’s Removal Could Help China in Venezuela and Latin America
 
Hosted by David Gura; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott.
 
Fact-checking by Yang Yang and Naomi Ng; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
 
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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The Domino Effect of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’

Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms and other large investors have bought hundreds of thousands of homes across the US, expanding their footprint in the American real estate market. But President Trump blindsided the industry with a Truth Social post last week, announcing he would push for a ban on Wall Street investors scooping up single-family homes.
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg real estate reporter Patrick Clark and Bloomberg CityLab reporter Kriston Capps join host Sarah Holder to explain how big investors got a slice of the US housing market and whether pushing them out would actually put a dent in the country’s affordability crisis.
 
Editor's Note: Updated to remove reference to Pretium comment.
 
Read more: 
 
 Trump Bid to Ban Corporate Homebuying Blindsides Wall Street Trump Targets Institutional Investors in Affordable Housing Push Wall Street Homebuyers Plan Counter-Offer After Trump Threat 
Hosted by Sarah Holder; Produced by Julia Press; Reported by Patrick Clark and Kriston Capps; Edited by Aaron Edwards; Fact-checking by David Fox and Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Engineering by Alex Sugiura; Senior Producer Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer Julia Weaver; Executive Producer Nicole Beemsterboer

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Trump’s Latest Target: Corporate Landlords

Weeks of protests in Iran started over the high price of food and essential goods. They quickly engulfed the nation and, before long, were met with deadly force by the Iranian regime’s security forces. 
 
The violent crackdown has drawn international condemnation and President Trump has offered protestors his support. 
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura and International Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director Ali Vaez discuss how we got here, the existential threats facing the Iranian regime and what could come next if it falls. 
 
 

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Pressure Is Mounting on Iran's Regime

This week, following the deadly shooting of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the state of Minnesota sued the federal government in a bid to kick out thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder is joined by Bloomberg immigration reporter Alicia Caldwell and the National Immigration Law Center’s Efrén Olivares to discuss how a rapid evolution under President Trump has reshaped ICE — and how states are responding to unprecedented waves of federal enforcers.

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Minnesota v. ICE

On Sunday night, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced that the US Department of Justice had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment over a costly renovation of the central bank’s building.
 
It was a watershed moment in the escalating tension between the Trump administration and the US central bank. 
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura sits down with Fed reporters Amara Omeokwe and Enda Curran to discuss what this means for one of the most important financial institutions in the world, for Powell, for the White House — and where things could go from here. 
 
Read more: 
 
 Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas; Powell Vows to Stand Firm • 
 Former Fed Chairs, Treasury Secretaries Condemn Powell Probe Trump Faces Fed Roadblock as Republicans Blast Justice Probe 
Hosted by David Gura; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by Amara Omeokwe and Enda Curran; Edited by Naomi Shavin.
 
Fact-checking by David Fox and Julia Press; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
 
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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Powell Makes His Case to The American People

After the Trump Administration’s strike on Venezuela and the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, there’s one word on everyone’s mind: oil. President Trump has big plans for the country’s vast reserves, which today account for just 1% percent of global production.
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura and Bloomberg Opinion’s Javier Blas talk through the Trump Administration’s gamble on Venezuela’s oil, how the president plans to convince the energy industry to invest in the country’s aging infrastructure, and why its resources are key to the administration’s plans at home and abroad. 
 
Read more: Forget the Naysayers, Venezuela Offers Quick Oil Wins 
 
Listen more: Oil Prices Could Get Cheaper Despite Venezuela Blockade
 
Hosted by David Gura; Produced by Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by Javier Blas; Edited by Paddy Hirsch and Simon Casey.
 
Fact-checking by Eleanor Harrison-Dengate; Engineering by Katie McMurran.
 
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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Why Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil

Within days of the US raid on Venezuela, President Donald Trump and his administration turned their attention to Greenland, renewing European fears that the US would try to take territory belonging to its longtime NATO ally, Denmark. 

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Sanne Wass in Denmark and Joe Deaux, who covers Greenland, join host Sarah Holder to discuss what days of escalating rhetoric around the strategically located Arctic island could mean for Denmark, Russia and the future of NATO. 

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After Venezuela, Is Greenland Next?

The US House of Representatives will vote today on whether to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that bring down health care costs for millions of Americans. 
 
The subsidies expired at the end of December, and lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill after their winter break just as divided over the issue as they were before the holidays. 
 
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg Congress reporter Caitlin Reilly joins host David Gura to discuss the sticking points between Republicans and Democrats and where that stalemate leaves Americans who rely on ACA subsidies in the final weeks of open enrollment.
 
Read more: House Backs Renewing Health Subsidies, Defying Republican Leaders
 
Hosted by David Gura Produced by Julia Press Reported by Caitlin Reilly Edited by Tracey Samuelson Fact-checking by Eleanor Harrison-Dengate Engineering by Alex Sugiura
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer

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The ACA Subsidies Fight Hits the House Floor

The US strike on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro sent shockwaves across the globe — particularly in China, Venezuela’s top crude buyer and creditor.
 
On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, Bloomberg’s Jenni Marsh and host K. Oanh Ha talk through what the intervention means for China’s strategic ties and oil supplies and how the military strike could change Beijing’s stance toward Taiwan.
 
Read more: Xi Faces Higher Costs in Taiwan Than Trump Does in Venezuela
 
Further listening: How the Fall of Maduro Could Echo Around the World
 
Hosted by K. Oanh Ha; Produced by Naomi Ng, Eleanor Harrison-Dengate, Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by Jenni Marsh; Edited by Jeff Grocott, Emma O’Brien, Daniel Ten Kate, John Liu.
 
Fact-checking by editorial team; Engineering by Alex Sugiura.
 
Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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How Venezuela Shifts China’s Calculus

President Trump announced early Saturday morning that the United States had carried out a strike against Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife. The pair was taken to the US where they face terrorism- and drug trafficking-related charges.

A few hours later, Trump announced that the US would be administering the country of Venezuela until there could be a “safe, proper, and judicious transition.”

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Nathan Hager sits down with Latin America regional editor Crayton Harrison to talk about the situation on the ground following the strike and what’s at stake for the people of Venezuela, its neighbors in the region and the global economy.

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What Maduro’s Ouster Means for the Global Economy

In September 2022, a tanker called the Queen Majeda was stopped by authorities in Albanian waters, stuffed to the gills with $2 million worth of marine gas oil. The ship was coming from Libya’s port of Benghazi. And according to the Albanian authorities, the oil they were carrying was being smuggled out of the country illegally.

The Queen Majeda was just the tip of the iceberg of Libya’s $5 billion fuel-smuggling problem, Bloomberg’s senior global business reporter K. Oanh Ha discovered. She learned from the head of Libya's audit bureau that as much as 40% of the fuel imported to Libya under a subsidy program in 2022 was smuggled out. And by tracking shipping data, Ha found that a lot of the fuel exiting through illicit trade originally came from Russia. The fuel then made its way from Libya into European countries that have banned Russian fuel imports.

In today’s episode, Ha unravels the mystery of the Queen Majeda – and reveals how Russian fuel flows through Libya to dodge European sanctions.

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Libya’s $5 Billion Fuel-Smuggling Trade Has a Russia Problem

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