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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.

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  • Why Instacart Backtracked on an AI-Pricing Experiment
    Dec 23 2025

    This month, the think-tank the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and the news nonprofit More Perfect Union released a report finding that Instacart had been using an AI tool to run algorithmic price experiments on shoppers around the country. As a result, shoppers were being charged different prices for the exact same items from the exact same stores.

    At a time when inflation has driven grocery costs higher, the revelation that Instacart was charging some consumers more for the same goods struck a chord.

    On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder speaks with Bloomberg’s antitrust reporter Leah Nylen and the Groundwork Collaborative executive director Lindsay Owens about the report’s findings and impact — and Instacart’s decision to end their experiment.

    Read more: Instacart to Pay $60 Million to Settle FTC Consumer Protection Case

    Hosted by: Sarah Holder; Produced by: Rachael Lewis-Krisky; Reported by: Leah Nylen; Edited by: Naomi Shavin and Aaron Edwards; Fact-checking by: Julia Press; Engineering by: Katie McMurran.

    Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin. Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer.

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    20 mins
  • Even a US Blockade of Venezuela Isn’t Spiking Oil Prices
    Dec 22 2025

    From OPEC powerhouses and US shale producers to countries like Guyana, global producers are drilling more oil and driving down prices. And with the potential for a ceasefire in Russia and pressure on Maduro in Venezuela, even more oil could flood the market in 2026.

    On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura sits down with Bloomberg oil trading reporter Alex Longley and Opinion columnist Javier Blas to discuss the forces driving the oil market right now, how they’re impacting different countries and why even lower prices could be on the way.

    Read more: The World Is Awash With Oil and Prices Are Poised to Keep Falling

    Hosted by: David Gura Produced by: Julia Press Reported by: Alex Longley and Javier Blas Edited by: Jeff Grocott Fact-checking by: Rachael Lewis-Krisky and David Fox Engineering by: Katie McMurran

    Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer

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    19 mins
  • Weekend Listen: Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
    Dec 21 2025

    Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine and Sudan.

    There aren’t many women in her field. In a new National Geographic documentary called “Love+War,” currently streaming on Disney+, she lets us into that world, one she’s made her profession for three decades. Addario shows how she adjusts from a work environment of grave danger and high-adrenaline to being a mother making the school run and spending time with her sons.

    In this conversation, she tells Mishal Husain, why she believes her job is to “bear witness” and how she came to it. She remembers the first time she used a camera and shares how her childhood prepared her to walk into any situation and connect with anyone, from soldiers to refugees and civilians living through extreme times.

    This interview contains descriptions of abduction, violence and sexual assault which some listeners/viewers may find distressing.


    02:27 - Love+War
    03:34 - The turning point
    06:00 - Learning about the risks
    07:00 “I don’t want to do this for a living”
    09:19 - Being held in Fallujah
    11:20 - On embed in Afghanistan
    14:31 - Operation Rock Avalanche
    15:43 - Dealing with the emotion
    16:50 - The daughter of hairdressers in Connecticut
    17:44 - Getting her first camera
    19:30 - Planning a “shoot-list”
    21:51 - Russian strike on Ukraine
    17:30 - Being held hostage in Libya
    31:02 - Survivor’s guilt
    33:30 Life at home
    36:30 - Social media and fake images
    40:18 - Switching off

    Watch this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

    You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s notes on Bloomberg Weekend: https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

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    44 mins
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