Subject: Share the View 2: Bitcoin Catastrophes and Manly Gun Owners
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:02:02 -0600

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December 23, 2014

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INVESTING 

Mark Gilbert:"It's been a bad year for the Russian ruble and a terrible 12 months for the Ukrainian hryvnia. But it's been a catastrophic 2014 for Bitcoin, the virtual currency."
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EUROPEAN ECONOMY 

Leonid Bershidsky:"As the European Central Bank gets ready for quantitative easing, overriding German arguments that buying government debt creates moral hazard in debt-laden countries, it is reacting to the threat of deflation. Yet slow-growing prices aren't at the heart of what ails the euro area, and QE won't fix the deeper problems that are."
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DECLASSIFIED 

Josh Rogin and Eli Lake:Why does a North Korean cyberhack draw a tougher response from President Barack Obama "than the amassing of a small nuclear arsenal? The message that sends to Pyongyang is that they can threaten their entire region with nuclear weapons, just so long as they don't touch Hollywood."
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GUNS 

Francis Wilkinson:"If traditional masculine virtues are under assault elsewhere in Western civilization, they are vividly paraded in American gun culture."
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TECH 

Noah Smith:Participating in an online outrage mob "gives us a chance to inflict pain on a stranger in a socially acceptable manner. The target of the outrage feels despair as he sees his career crumbling before his eyes. He feels the pain of a thousand brutal insults. She experiences fear, as anonymous attackers post her address and satellite photos of her house online. She feels socially rejected, outcast, forsaken. Meanwhile, the members of the mob bask in their anonymity."
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RUSSIA 

Bershidsky:"The Russian ruble, which last week briefly became the world's worst-performing currency, is rebounding, as is the battered Russian stock market. That doesn't mean President Vladimir Putin's economic team has managed to fully stabilize the currency or resolve any of the underlying problems that led to its recent plunge."
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LATIN AMERICA 

The Editors:"Mexico's ruling caste is seriously and systematically compromised by shady dealings. It's part of a wider failure of governance -- exemplifying the kind of corruption that's inciting more and more Mexicans to protest indifferent public institutions, police who kill rather than protect, and clubby technocrats who pursue economic reforms but put themselves above the rules."
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NEWS ROUNDUP 

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	- Great Seth Masket item at Pacific Standard on the idea that lame-duck politicians are "unbound":
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	- I hit this on Twitter last week, but glad that Andrew Gelman of the Washington Post did an item about Barack Obama, Cuba and "only Nixon could go to China":
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	- Julia Azari at Mischiefs of Faction on descriptive representation:
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Zara Kessler on What's Popping

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New York theater  schedules a free reading of "The Interview" script. 
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Congressman:  "I am extending an offer to screen The Interview in the U.S. Capitol facilities." "'The Interview' Now Has a Higher IMDb Rating Than 'The Shawshank Redemption.'"
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	- "A Viral Study Says Porn Is Killing Marriage. Here's Why It's Pure Bunk."
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	- Meta year-end superlatives: FiveThirtyEight digs in to year-end "best of" lists.
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	- Joe Cocker, "raspy-voiced rock star with distinctive moves," is dead.
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	- Not pretty. "What 2,000 Calories Looks Like."
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ASIA 

Andrei Lankov:"There is little doubt that President Barack Obama meant business when he said the U.S. would respond to North Korea's hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment computers. It's unclear whether or not Monday's shutdown of the North Korean Internet was part of that response. Regardless, Kim Jong Un's regime may soon have cause to regret its assault on Hollywood."
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INDIA 

Dhiraj Nayyar:"Investors have been hoping for two things from Narendra Modi's government in India: fiscal rectitude, and a return to the years of 8 percent GDP growth. To achieve the second, he may have to abandon the first."
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