Subject: Share the View -- A Debt-Ceiling Fight to the Death
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Share the View -- Bloomberg View
A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for May 29, 2012

BETSEY STEVENSON and JUSTIN WOLFERS: John Boehner’s familiar threat of
a fight with the White House over the debt ceiling could have
different repercussions this time around. “Our analysis of [last
year’s] episode leads to a troubling conclusion: It almost derailed the
recovery, and this time could be a lot worse.” [Link]
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    1. http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=98bac6cd6075b07f398b277fa&id=b02c9c9818&e=002874f745
    2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-28/debt-ceiling-deja-vu-could-sink-economy.html

AL HUNT: Overreaction to the threat of terrorism has become the new
normal. Obama has disappointed civil libertarians who think U.S.
policies are neither constitutional nor wise. The "presumptive
Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, is in no position to
criticize; he has suggested that as president he would reinstate the
use of torture." [Link]
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    3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-27/bush-s-terror-overreach-becomes-new-normal-under-obama.html

RAMESH PONNURU: As “the prevailing rhetoric on trade corresponds less
and less to reality” and there is less political support for free
trade, it’s time to “ditch the old mercantilist strategy.” [Link]
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    4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-28/congress-s-trade-policy-is-increasingly-delusional.html

ROGER LOWENSTEIN: JPMorgan’s trading loss reminds us that hedging can
have a “pernicious effect” on markets. “Just as football players armed
with kryptonite-strength helmets hit more aggressively, leading to more
concussions, hypertrading by firms -- each thinking of their own
preservation -- has exposed markets to meltdowns and routs.” [Link]
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    5. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-28/let-s-shut-down-bank-credit-default-swap-trading-pits.html

CHIP JACOBS: For all of California Governor Jerry Brown’s “gallant
intentions,” he has “yet to inspire Californians by connecting
environmental problems with what could be a rejuvenating,
self-sustaining economy that electrifies California cleanly while
shopping its products to an energy-parched globe.” [Link]
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    6. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-28/governor-jerry-brown-can-do-more-to-green-up-california.html

THE EDITORS: Corporate execs are on shaky ground when blaming
"uncertainty” for their resistance to investment and hiring. “Business
thrives on certainty, to be sure. And Obama's rhetorical broadsides
against business leaders aren't helpful. Nor are declarations like the
one by House Speaker John Boehner on May 15, in which he promised
another bare-knuckle fight over lifting the debt ceiling. Yet of this
one can be certain: You can blame Obama for many things, but
uncertainty isn't one of them.” [Link]
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    7. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-28/the-truth-about-uncertainty-is-that-it-s-mostly-untrue.html

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