Devastating typhoons in the Philippines this year exposed a vast corruption network. Find out on the Big Take Asia podcast how billions of dollars meant for flood control vanished and what the crisis means for the country's economy. https://trib.al/E8lNpYT | Bloomberg

President Trump doubled down on his threat to use the US government shutdown, now in its ninth day, to make sweeping cuts to programs favored by Democrats. "They wanted to do this, so we'll give them a little taste of their own medicine," he said Thursday bloom.bg/4q257Qx | Bloomberg

“There is no doubt that the Western world needs Europe to be more successful,” Citadel founder Ken Griffin told Bloomberg’s Dani Burger at a conference in Paris Tuesday, noting that Europe's capital markets are not "deep and robust enough" https://bloom.bg/3ME3BF0 | Bloomberg