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It's the year 2030. Elon Musk and Kanye West are on tour together. Your home Amazon robot folds all your laundry and remembers to restock the toilet paper. And Ferrari is churning out all-electric supercars. The future just might be amazing.Josh Petri

 

For more than a decade, Chinese political and corporate leaders have been scouring the globe with seemingly bottomless wallets. Bloomberg has crunched the numbers to compile the most comprehensive audit to date of China’s presence in Europe. It shows that China has bought or invested in assets amounting to at least $318 billion over the past 10 years. 

 
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Amazon has a top secret plan to build home robots. Code-named “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of hearth, home and family, the robot could be a sort of mobile Alexa, accompanying customers in parts of their home where they don’t have Echo devices. 

 

President Donald Trump twice gave James Comey an alibi for why a salacious report about the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow couldn’t be true: He never even spent the night in Russia during that trip. Now, flight records obtained by Bloomberg, combined with existing accounts and Trump’s own social-media posts provide to-the-minute details, from wheels down to departure, of Trump's 45 hours and 43 minutes in Russia.

 

Wind farms tend to perform well as an investment, and they're now attracting institutional investors along with climate-focused family offices. Interested? Here's how to buy your own.

 

Ferrari is quietly—very quietly—testing an electric car. While the company has no plans to produce a fully-electric car before 2022, a suspiciously silent prototype was recently spotted.

 

Kanye and Elon: a bromance in tweets. Rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West took to Twitter to praise his Tesla. Elon Musk, who has previously said he's inspired by West, amplified the praise

 
 
 

wealth on the waterfront

Around the country, the government’s response to extreme weather is pushing lower-income people away from the coast, often in the name of safety. Housing experts, economists and activists have coined the term “climate gentrification.”

 
 

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