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Clippy’s resume, Big Mac for Chicago, Lax gun laws

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft’s willingness to plunk down $26 million for LinkedIn proves the software giant is slipping back to its old habit of illogical deals.  Add Uber’s creative method of scooping up more money and Dropbox’s pronouncement that it is cash-flow positive and it could mean a cold wind is starting to blow in Silicon Valley. McDonald’s move to Chicago is a meaty win for the beleaguered city riddled with crime and a ballooning budget deficit. And finally, why lax gun laws in the U.S. are hurting the country’s influence abroad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

0:44.0

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming to you from Connecticut in the USA.

0:48.2

Well, this week is a bit of a magic carpet ride with three different segments coming to you from our columnists in Melbourne, Hong Kong, London,

0:55.2

and if you can believe it, New Orleans, Louisiana. First, I chatted with our U.S. editor,

1:00.3

John Foley, who's working out of the Big Easy this week because, well, why the hell not?

1:04.8

He analyzed the pay packages of the bosses of the biggest American banks, including Morgan,

1:08.9

Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan.

1:16.5

His view is that bumper compensation during a year of the global plague is a pretty bad look.

1:20.9

Whether that will lead to any sort of investor or political backlash, though, is, well, to be seen.

1:25.9

After that, I hand the mic over to Anthony Curry and Melbourne to chat with Sharon Lamb in Hong Kong about C.

1:28.1

Now, C is the Southeast Asian tech conglomerate you've probably never heard of, but whose shares have quintupled in the

1:32.5

past year, giving the Singaporean company an eye-popping $127 billion market value. After that, we winged

1:40.8

back to London, where our European editor, Peter Thal Larson, talks to

1:44.4

Neil Unmac, about the demise of Green Sill Capital, the supply chain finance provider.

1:50.0

Now, the firm's ructions may not be systemic, but they sure offer a fascinating window into

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