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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Mar 27, 2015

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<= href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2ffrg.=04a/VQry30mOpKWLGBzoBf69c" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Tech

Katie Benner: "If=you’re interested in whether Google will be among the most importa=t, innovative tech companies five or 10 years from now, then the very publ=c disagreement over Google’s antitrust practices is sort of a side=how. Playing hardball with competitors in search hasn’t made Googl= a leading company in the areas that matter now to consumers and advertise=s, such as social media, mobile and, increasingly, messaging." Read more...

Transportation

The Editors: "The=act of flying has been increasingly automated over the years, so much so t=at even working pilots can get rusty. And yet -- even in an age of drone deliveries and pi=otless Predators -- one young man with the wrong intent is capable of brin=ing down a jet in a matter of minutes." Read more...

Companies

Matt Levine: "What makes=Heinz's share of the combined company worth $42 billion is the combina=ion: Heinz has jumped in value in large part because of the Kraft dea=, and to get the Kraft deal Berkshire and 3G had to kick in another $10 bi=lion. So the real math is that they've put in $18.2 billion for a thing wo=th $42 billion -- still a quite respectable 130 percent return on investme=t." Read more.=.

Africa

Eli Lake: "When Nigerians vote this weekend for their next president, th=y face a choice between the devil they know and the devil their grandparen=s knew." Read more...=/a>

Culture

Marc Champion: "T=e BBC profited from Clarkson's persona, earning 50 million pounds ($74 mil=ion) a year from syndication around the world. It can hardly claim hurt an= surprise when his loutishness gets acted out off camera. (Admittedly, pun=hing a co-worker hard enough that he needed treatment is a step up from hi= previous offenses.)"

Wall Street

Levine: "<=pan class="topic-contributor-quote" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;=ont-weight:normal;color:#333333;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6em;text-tran=form:none">As a former capital-markets banker myself, I was inclined to sy=pathize with the banks. From the outside, this sort of favor-trading -- gi=ing big investors big allocations that they can then flip at a profit -- l=oks sort of shady and nefarious, but really the business of investment ban=ing is a business of favor-trading." <= href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2ffrg.=04a/VRSFA0mOFcr8-VikBe361" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Read more...

2016 Elections

Jeanne Cummings: "In the wake of cou=t rulings deregulating campaign finance, political fundraising has shifted=decisively toward the super rich. The new playing field is putting Democra=s at a disadvantage heading into 2016." Read more...

Real Estate

Jonathan J. Miller: "The=living space in newly built U.S. homes is on a tear: Since 1982, the size =f a new single-family house has increased by almost 1,000 square feet -- w=ich was the size of the average U.S. house in 1950." Read more...

Megan McArdle: "In these mode=n days, with the gay marriage movement racking up more and more victories =cross these United States, homosexuality is (thankfully) no longer 'the lo=e that dare not speak its name.' Allow me, then, to suggest a new candidat= for the title: gentrification." Read more...

Ukraine Crisis

Leonid Bershidsky: resolut=on this week urging President Barack Obama to arm Ukraine with 'lethal=defensive weapon systems,' it was calling on the U.S. to send arms to the =orld's ninth biggest defense exporter, whose supplies last year helped Nig=ria fight Boko Haram insurgents. So even if Russian-led aggression resumes=in eastern Ukraine in the coming weeks or months, the U.S. should help Uk=aine do more to provide for itself, before sending weapons that would turn=this into a proxy war between nuclear superpowers." Read more...

Sports

Kavitha A. Davidson: "The percentage of women coaching women has steadily dropped over the l=st four decades, owing to new positions and salaries as well as old stereo=ypes and biases. A common explanation, still touted by men and women alike= is that female coaches often choose their families over their careers. Bu= that excuse doesn't fly in the boardroom, and it sho=ldn't fly on the bench. Plenty of qualified women want to be coaches, and =ts a problem with the system that they're not." Read more...

Davidson: "Three college athl=tes made history this weekend when they became the first African-Americans=to sweep a swimming event at the NCAA Women's Divisio= I Championship." Rea= more...

Pol=tics

Jonathan Bernstein: "What th= new research confirms is that the people who are being excluded want to b= involved. They just get engaged too late in the process to do so. They ar= less informed about the rules of voting than their neighbors are -- the o=es, that is, who make sure to fill out the paperwork." Read more...

Education

Bershidsky: "Perh=ps the best aspect of the Finnish system is the freedom its schools have t= form their own curricula within a loose national framework, and the freed=m students have to determine how they want to learn. Experimentation can h=lp develop alternatives to the traditional learning system we all remember= and don't really want it for our kids." Read more...=/span>

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