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On "Bloomberg Money" Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene discuss the books that influenced Elon Musk.

Goldman Sachs has already advised on more than $1 trillion of mergers and acquisitions so far this year, the fastest any bank has ever reached the milestone. Stephan Feldgoise runs the team and says it's been an intense first half, driven by big deals. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

Goldman Sachs just broke records, advising on over $1 trillion in M&A deals faster than any bank in history. Stephan Feldgoise is the Head of Global M&A at Goldman. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI is fueling massive corporate acquisitions, why CEOs are ignoring short-term uncertainty, and why a private equity comeback could push dealmaking even higher.

For decades, the global transition to renewable energy was a project of incrementalism — a slow-moving mosaic of carbon taxes, solar subsidies, and earnest international accords that often felt more aspirational than urgent. 

Policy wonks argued over the nuances of the Inflation Reduction Act, while climate activists lamented the glacial pace of the "energy pivot."

For the better part of a decade, the gilded youth of the financial world — the "crypto-native" generation — dismissed gold as a "boomer rock." 

To them, the heavy, yellow metal was an analog relic, a petrous souvenir of an era before the lightning-fast efficiency of the blockchain. 

For years, the global defence industry existed in a sort of polite exile. 

In the era of ESG mandates and the "peace dividend," shares in weapons manufacturers were often treated as the "tobacco stocks" of the new millennium — profitable, perhaps, but unseemly.