Subject: Share the View -- Politics Matter
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:00:16 -0400

Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for June 27, 2012

CLIVE CROOK: "Tell me whether the individual health insurance mandate
is permissible under the Commerce Clause, and I’ll tell you what you
think about fiscal stimulus." The factionalism evidenced by such
responses is leading to "complete paralysis." [Read more]
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    2. http://bloom.bg/MsYTlk

PETER ORSZAG: "Armenia is not generally known as a world leader, but it
holds at least one record: Seventy-five percent of its cars and trucks
run on natural gas." [Read more]
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    3. http://bloom.bg/MsZ7c6

VALI NASR: Egypt's election is reminiscent of politics in "Pakistan and
Turkey, where overbearing militaries have also manipulated the
democratic process." Will Egypt learn from their lessons? [Read
more]
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    4. http://bloom.bg/MsZfIE

EDWARD GLAESER: There's a case for mandating health-insurance coverage,
but there's also danger in a "federal government with too much power to
control individual behavior." [Read more]
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    5. http://bloom.bg/MsZuDI

RICHARD CARROLL: "About half of any president’s economic performance
depends on how much he improved or damaged the economy he inherited (as
shown by the trends in economic indicators). The other half depends on
how many good economic years the president racked up while in office."
[Read more]
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    6. http://bloom.bg/MsZC5X

JOHN C. DUGAN and T. TIMOTHY RYAN JR.: "The FDIC recently proposed a
way under Dodd-Frank of reorganizing a large financial institution that
would avoid runs by short-term depositors and creditors and prevent
messy defaults on swaps and other derivatives. More important, the
FDIC's proposal would also avoid taxpayer losses." [Read more]
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    7. http://bloom.bg/MsZL9u

THE EDITORS: The Supreme Court factored two errors into its Citizens
United decision. In summarily dismissing a case this week on corporate
spending restrictions in Montana, the court "piled cowardice atop
confusion." [Read more] And in Italy, THE EDITORS write, Prime
Minister Mario Monti "has failed to produce the miracle that Italy was
hoping for, offering only painful remedies for years of misgovernment.
It turns out that politics matter, and technocrats aren’t much good at
politics." [Read more]
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    8. http://bloom.bg/MsZTWB
    9. http://bloom.bg/Mt0300

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