Subject: Share the View -- Blood Smartphones
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:00:14 +0000

Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for Aug. 22, 2012

THE EDITORS: “You’ve heard of blood diamonds. Now get ready for the
debate over blood smartphones.” The SEC is voting Wednesday on a
section of the Dodd-Frank law requiring manufacturers to “disclose
whether they buy certain metals -- tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold --
that have fueled years of war in Congo.” [Read more] And THE EDITORS
write, a clear plan to phase out the soon-to-expire wind power credit
over the coming four years “could actually be a gift to the wind
industry, which has suffered from the federal program's
unpredictability, even as it has benefited from its support.” [Read
more]
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MICHAEL KINSLEY: “Ryan’s mind wandered as he thought about the only man
who stood between him and absolute power. Mitt Romney was a weakling,
he thought -- and not for the first time. He’s a man whose views can
change. The thought filled Ryan with disgust. His own views were as
solid as granite. They were the views of the only clear-thinking woman
he had ever met: Ayn Rand.” [Read more]
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    4. http://bloom.bg/NjiR07

EDWARD GLAESER: “The regulatory authority of the Army Corps should be
limited to assessing threats to navigation, not neighborhood concerns.”
[Read more]
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CLIVE CROOK: “Greece’s solvency and the integrity of the euro system
are increasingly being muddled together. That’s dangerous. It’s vital
to keep them separate. Europe’s prospects would improve at a stroke if
one notion could be stamped out -- that the European Union will ease
Greece and other possible defaulters out of the euro system unless they
try harder to balance their books.” [Read more]
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    6. http://bloom.bg/Njj2bS

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF: The 500 economists who signed a statement approving
Mitt Romney’s economic plan represent “a disservice to the economics
profession. . . .
No impartial economist would make such blanket assertions. By their
very nature, such statements represent political, not scientific,
opinion.” [Read more]
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WILLIAM SILBER: “Volcker based his support for targeting the monetary
aggregates on the favorable impact on inflationary expectations and
central-bank credibility, an approach closer to the then-emerging
doctrine of rational expectations than to mainstream monetarism. . .
.Volcker wanted to restore the gold standard without gold.” The second
of three excerpts from William Silber's "Volcker: The Triumph of
Persistence." [Read more]
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