Subject: Share the View -- The Acquisitive Life
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Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for June 8, 2012

ROBERT SKIDELSKY and EDWARD SKIDELSKY: "John Maynard Keynes's
generation of economists assumed that as people became more efficient
at satisfying their wants, they would, and should as rational agents,
work less and enjoy life more." But what happens when we always want
more? [Link]
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    1. http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=98bac6cd6075b07f398b277fa&id=9acf2b5ce6&e=002874f745
    2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/too-much-faith-in-markets-denies-us-the-good-life.html

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Don't cry for public unions. "They remain as
formidable as ever, and will spend the current election cycle doing
what they do, spending tens of millions of dollars to elect candidates
who favor their interests." [Link]
  Links:
    3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/true-capitalists-are-pro-market-not-pro-business.html

JONATHAN ALTER: "In an economy headed in the wrong direction,
comparison campaigning is necessary but not sufficient." President
Obama needs to present a clear economic plan that includes emphasis on
jobs for young people in teaching, nursing, park restoration and
infrastructure repairs and encourages direct government hiring of
able-bodied adults. [Link]
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    4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/obama-should-forget-about-dogs-and-focus-on-jobs.html

DMITRY TRENIN: “The massacre of more than 100 men, women and children
at Houla last week has buried former U.N. Secretary General Kofi
Annan's peace plan for Syria. Soon, the regime and its opponents will
get to fight out their civil war unobstructed.” [Link]
  Links:
    5. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/syria-could-unite-russia-and-china-against-the-u-s-.html

A. GARY SHILLING: Monetary easing in Japan won’t “address the
challenges presented by its rapidly aging population, which will result
in restraints on consumption that slow growth and increase the cost of
government-debt service as a share of gross domestic product.” The
fifth excerpt of “The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a
Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation” explains how Japan can respond to
the crisis. [Link]
  Links:
    6. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/strong-yen-won-t-survive-japan-s-fiscal-cliff.html

THE EDITORS: In his testimony to Congress Thursday, Fed chairman Ben
Bernanke was "careful not to commit to further monetary stimulus. . .
.Demand is growing more slowly than the Fed believed, inlfation is
falling below target, progress on unemployment is glacial, and the
risks are loaded on the downside. What’s the Fed waiting for?"
[Link] And in Bahrain, THE EDITORS write, where a Sunni-Shiite
conflict is threatening to spread, “U.S. officials should strive to
convince the Saudi royals that a fairer deal for Bahrain's Shiites, not
to mention Saudi Arabia's, would strengthen their position and lessen
the odds of meddling by Shiite-majority Iran.” [Link]
  Links:
    7. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/a-stalling-u-s-recovery-demands-a-bolder-fed-and-more-qe.html
    8. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/can-an-island-of-strife-lead-mideast-reform-.html

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