Numlock Sunday: Kim Bhasin on the biggest story of the week

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. Each week, I'll sit down with an author or a writer, behind one of the stories covered in a previous weekday edition for a casual conversation about what they wrote.

We here at Numlock strive to bring you the most important, most compelling, most fascinating behind stories that define our world. This week, there’s been one story and one story only that has captivated the American attention, one ongoing saga that has stirred up controversy around dinner tables and bars across this great land, a single and solitary event that is dominating the national mindset and will serve as a referendum on the stat of — no, the future — of the American Experiment.

I’m talking, naturally, about Kylie Jenner selling her makeup company at a valuation of $1.2 billion.

This week, I spoke to regular presence in Numlock Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg’s luxury reporter, who regularly covers the cosmetics, jewelry and luxury beats. Here, he tells us what went down a…