Subject: Share the View -- Jared Diamond Assigns Homework to Japan
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:03:52 +0000

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A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for April 26, 2012
_JARED DIAMOND: _“Japan’s trade balance is about to go negative for the
first time since 1980.” Can the Japanese turn their economy around? Only if
they change cultural attitudes toward women’s roles, immigration and
sustainable resource use. [Link]
  Links:
    2. http://bloom.bg/JqVEaQ

_STEVEN NEIL KAPLAN_:  Amid continuing rancor over inequality, it's worth
asking how instrumental it actually is to our happiness. Answer? Not very.
“Household well-being is much more related to unemployment than it is to the
increase in pre-tax income inequality.” [Link]
  Links:
    3. http://bloom.bg/IEPo0g

_NOAH FELDMAN: _The Supreme Court sidestepped a discussion of racial
discrimination and focused instead on the “papers, please” provision of
Arizona's immigration law. “From what the justices said at oral argument, it
seems the U.S. might soon be getting more European. Or at least one step
closer to requiring national ID card.” [Link]
  Links:
    4. http://bloom.bg/IhiF3K

_EZRA KLEIN: _Will the avalanche of presidential campaign spending bury
democracy? Not likely. “Money is least useful in contests where press
coverage is most intense and opinions are most entrenched.” However, in
smaller, ‘low-information’ congressional races, money can have a big impact.
[Link]
  Links:
    5. http://bloom.bg/IqGggm

_CAROLINE BAUM: _Will the U.S. fall off a “fiscal cliff” at the start of
2013? Let’s forget model-based forecasts and focus on realzworld effects.
“If there was little or no impact from the government's fiscal initiatives,
it's hard to argue their reversal will send the economy over the cliff.”
[Link]
  Links:
    6. http://bloom.bg/I6aTEX

_SUSAN CRAWFORD: _Don’t let cyberwarriorsdestroy Internet freedom. “Elements
of our government want to wage unconstrained war on other nations in
cyberspace, no matter what the consequences may be to humanity.” [Link]
  Links:
    7. http://bloom.bg/JGZXB5

_THE EDITORS: _Here’s a boon to the U.S. economy that won’t require much
political courage: adopting the chained CPI, which would “produce as much as
$300 billion in savings and revenue within a decade” while helping to shore
up Social Security. [Link]
  Links:
    8. http://bloom.bg/K8aWRv

And in China,_THE EDITORS _write, “the U.S. would be better off doing
nothing than sticking to its current China-bashing stance.” [Link]
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    9. http://bloom.bg/IwCmmR

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