Subject: Share the View: Berkshire and the System
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:03:54 -0600

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IRAN: "Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has declared his country open for investment, telling oil and gas executives in Davos, Switzerland, that Iran would have a new and improved contract for energy-sector investors ready by September," the Editors write. "Iran's outreach to foreign investors should be greeted with skepticism, but this is a development worth watching." 
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BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY: 

Matt Levine: "Should Berkshire Hathaway be designated a systemically important non-bank financial firm and subjected to Federal Reserve oversight, as the Financial Stability Oversight Council is considering? ... Maybe a simpler question is, is Berkshire Hathaway systemically important? Arithmetically the answer seems to be yes, or yes-ish." 
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‏@JonathanWeil (Jonathan Weil): Kids, if you work hard enough, with a little luck, someday you, too, can build something too big to fail. 
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UKRAINE:

The EU "should tell Ukrainians that Europe will support them wholeheartedly once they have a government that chooses economic reform and the rule of law over corruption and oppression," the Editors write. "And it should tell Ukraine's leaders -- both the government and its business allies -- that their authoritarian path rules out closer economic cooperation." 
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"The biggest nation in Eastern Europe is rapidly sliding into anarchy as the world watches from the sidelines," Leonid Bershidsky writes. "In Kiev, Ukraine, political activists are disappearing, journalists are being shot at and government-paid thugs are hunting down protesters." 
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YALE: "Yale University ran up the white flag this week in its battle to keep seniors Peter Xu and Harry Yu from creating an easier-to-use and more informative version of its online course catalog," Stephen L. Carter writes. "The school's real battle, however, was against technological change -- and so defeat was inevitable." 
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AFRICA: It took Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, 43, "eight months of internal debate before deciding to come out this week," Lisa Beyer writes. "Having done so, however, he has wasted no time taking on anti-gay forces in Africa." 
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HERBALIFE: Herbalife has a problem: U.S. politicians. Matthew C. Klein: "Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent letters today to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission asking the agencies to investigate Herbalife's business practices." 
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DAVOS: @davidjshipley (David Shipley): Davos denizens blinded by the snow ... and the Iranians. @jeffreygoldberg 
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OLYMPICS: Kavitha A. Davidson: "Team USA unveiled its uniforms for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, and for the love of stars and stripes, they're hideous." 
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HUCKABEE: In a speech today at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, Mike Huckabee "said something about women who 'can't control their libido,'" Jonathan Bernstein writes. "So yet again we have a conservative politician saying something that many women (and men) will find bizarrely offensive, and about which most observers can only wonder: How does junk like this even come up?" 
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VLADIMIR PUTIN: When it comes to deference to Russian President Vladimir Putin, "few reporters anywhere -- and not just in Sochi -- can compete with Shui Junyi, the reporter assigned to cover Putin for China's state-owned CCTV network," Adam Minter writes. 
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