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Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for June12, 2012

BETSEY STEVENSON and JUSTIN WOLFERS: “The debate over the death penalty
offers a vivid illustration of a tragic flaw in the market of ideas:
Strong beliefs attract a lot more attention, and can have a lot more
influence, than the truth. . . . We simply don’t know how capital
punishment affects the homicide rate.” [Link]
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    2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/the-death-penalty-debate-represents-a-market-failure.html

RAMESH PONNURU: "Elections may not change everything, but they
certainly can change the way partisans spin." The struggle to impose
meaning on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's win last week has
engendered six myths about union-busting, the power of political
spending and the Wisconsin vote's influence on the presidential
election. [Link]
  Links:
    3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/six-myths-about-the-wisconsin-election.html

PETER WALLISON: The Dodd-Frank plan for liquidating troubled financial
institutions is worse than letting the banks go bankrupt. Bank
liquidation “has no rules subject to legal oversight. Secured creditors
don’t know in advance whether they will be repaid and, in contrast to
bankruptcy, the creditors have no say in whether the firm is liquidated
or recapitalized by turning their debt into equity.” [Link]
  Links:
    4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/dodd-frank-s-liquidation-plan-is-worse-than-bankruptcy.html

JAMES MANN: President Obama's decision last year to deploy U.S.
airpower over Libya "helps explain not only why the administration has
been so reluctant to act in Syria, but also why -- regardless of what
happens in Syria -- Republicans will find it hard to find a single,
consistent attack on Obama’s foreign policy in this year’s election."
[Link]
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    5. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/republicans-won-t-gain-by-attacking-obama-on-syria.html

AMITY SHLAES and DAVID PIETRUSZA: “The White House messed up its
history. That’s the message of critics who pointed to a mistake
appended to the biography pages of past presidents posted on the White
House website.” Yet in the Internet age, “the acceleration of research
and the reopening of history test us all, as demonstrated in what is
likely to be the next hot discussion involving supposedly settled
history and an iconic quote long attributed to Silent Cal.” [Link]
  Links:
    6. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/calvin-coolidge-persisted-in-deed-if-not-in-word.html

THE EDITORS: European leaders' actions in Spain "suggest they’re
sticking with the strategy they pursued in Greece and expecting
different results. They’d better think again." [Link] And in Russia,
THE EDITORS write, Vladimir Putin "looks set to repeat some of the
mistakes that brought down the former Soviet Union, including a nuclear
arms race he can't afford." [Link]
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    7. http://bloom.bg/MwzN2p
    8. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/putin-2-0-repeating-the-soviet-union-s-mistakes.html

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