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Friday, 30 December 2016

Bloomberg’s Odd Lots opinion on the most ‘interesting’ stories of 2016

The most ‘interesting’ stories of 2016: Brexit and the election of Donald Trump alone made 2016 a year for the history books. In its end-of-year episode, Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast gathered five reporters and editors from Bloomberg News to find out what they thought were the most interesting and important stories of the year that you might have missed. One story that made the list was #sprayathon; portfolio manager Brett Barna’s Wolf of Wall Street-style pool party that trashed a USD 20 mn mansion in the Hamptons in July. Page Six says it was “awash with Champagne, scores of bikini-clad women and costumed gun-toting midgets.” The list of their ‘interesting’ stories included reports on the how private prisons are run and the impact of Trump’s election on them, how Goldman Sachs lost Libya’s sovereign wealth fund a lot of money, the momentous turn by the Bank of Japan, and the incredible significance of the Mexican Peso (runtime 31:08).

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