Subject: Share the View -- Political Depression
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:00:07 +0000

Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for Aug. 10, 2012

THE EDITORS: “From January to mid-July, there have been 17,000
registered cases” of whooping cough. Parents who want to opt out of
vaccinating their children “should be required to visit a pediatrician
for counseling on the risks of vaccination versus leaving a child
unprotected.” [Read more] And in Syria, THE EDITORS write: “Just
because policies followed to date have failed . . . it doesn’t mean
that the military options on the table will work. They may not improve
the final outcome of a conflict that’s unlikely to stop once President
Bashar al-Assad has gone.” [Read more]
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    2. http://bloom.bg/OUDV14
    3. http://bloom.bg/OUEd8r

JONATHAN ALTER: Can past presidential elections offer hints about the
one this year? “Republicans are pointing to 1992, when a Democratic
challenger won, and Democrats favor 2004, when a Republican incumbent
prevailed.” But there are no reruns in politics. [Read more]
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    4. http://bloom.bg/OUEok3

STEPHEN CARTER: "We are truly in the midst of a great depression --
psychological, not economic -- and our politics are only dragging us
down." [Read more]
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    5. http://bloom.bg/OUEuba

WILLIAM PESEK: A Filipino lounge singer has turned Simon & Garfunkel’s
“Scarborough Fair” into a “protest song about rising tensions in the
South China Sea. . . . The brawl between China and the Philippines over
ownership of a reef known as the Scarborough Shoal -- the scene of
armed patrols and source of a daily war of words -- is but the loudest
of the moment.” [Read more]
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    6. http://bloom.bg/OUEA2I

JONATHAN WEIL: New York regulator Benjamin Lawsky might have trouble
carrying out his threat to revoke Standard Chartered’s state banking
license, but
“it's refreshing to see anyone in a position of authority even go
through the motions of fully enforcing the law against a big bank.”
[Read more]
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    7. http://bloom.bg/OUEWGE

NOAH FELDMAN: Some Olympians -- Algerian runner Taoufik Makhloufi and
the Chinese, Indonesian and South Korean badminton teams -- have tried
to lose to win later. “Why, exactly, do we have the instinct that
acting rationally in order to win violates the ‘Olympic spirit’?”
[Read more]
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    8. http://bloom.bg/OUFcFm

STEVEN GREENHUT: “
The recent war of words between the California Public Employees’
Retirement System and a Bermuda- based bond-insurance company called
Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGO) has made it clear that California officials
would rather stiff bondholders than trim even the most generous pension
benefits promised to public-sector workers.” [Read more]
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    9. http://bloom.bg/OUFlsr

CALEB SCHARF: Of all cosmic phenomena, “the most extreme hold a
particular fascination, and black holes are the ultimate extreme.
Fantastical, even mythological in stature, they are a vital part of all
we see around us” -- the last of five excerpts from "Gravity's Engines:
How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars and Life in the
Cosmos." [Read more]
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    10. http://bloom.bg/OUFoVc

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