Subject: Share the View -- Dumber and Fatter
From: "Bloomberg View" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:08:20 +0000

Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for July 18, 2012

THE EDITORS: By voting twice this week to block disclosure of political
donations, "Congressional Republicans have escaped the outer orbit of
expediency." [Read more]  And THE EDITORS write, With the amount of
unscrupulous behavior in the financial industry "almost too voluminous
to list," regulators need to make better use of the tools at their
disposal and "stop treating the companies they oversee like buddies."
[Read more]
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    1. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=98bac6cd6075b07f398b277fa&id=f250f7d622&e=002874f745
    2. http://bloom.bg/MvKHvs
    3. http://bloom.bg/MvKHvs

And in Syria, THE EDITORS write, "the U.S. and its allies on the
Security Council would be wise to carry through their threat to block
renewal of Annan's mission under its existing terms, even though the
resulting deadlock would probably end efforts to create an
international consensus to force Assad into exile." [Read more]
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    4. http://bloom.bg/MvKQ1L

PETER ORSZAG: “The average child becomes dumber and fatter during the
vacation. And although there’s no need to declare war on summer,
there’s plenty we could do to combat the seasonal learning loss and
weight gain.” [Read more]
  Links:
    5. http://bloom.bg/MvKOHh

MARGARET CARLSON: Republicans always claim Democrats are playing the
class card. This year, they're actually right. "Democrats really are
playing class warfare. They haven't won yet, but with Romney as the
Republican standard bearer, they just might." [Read more]
  Links:
    6. http://bloom.bg/MvKVCA

CLIVE CROOK: "Obama is right to make fairness an organizing principle
of his campaign -- right on substance and right tactically. He’s wrong,
though, to leave it at that." Where's Obama's comprehensive tax-reform
proposal? [Read more]
  Links:
    7. http://bloom.bg/MvKWGG

NELL MINOW: "We don’t let students grade their own exams, but we let
CEOs chair their own boards. . . . Genuinely independent oversight is
impossible when the chief executive is also the one who sets the
board’s agenda, makes committee assignments, and determines the
quantity, quality and timing of information provided to directors."
[Read more]
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    8. http://bloom.bg/MvKY1n

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