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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Apr 17, 2015

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Investing

The Editors: "Surely one of the m=st glorious absurdities of American capitalism is that it's easier to rais= money online to make some potato salad than, say, to start an actual busi=ess. Of course, it should be more difficult to get people to invest in an =dea than in a side dish. But it shouldn’t be this hard." Read more...

Economics

Noah Smith: President Barack =bama’s "Student Aid Bill of Rights" emphasizes the right to go to =ollege, to take out loans and to pay those loans back quickly and easily. =In other words, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a gove=nment interested in maximizing the revenue it collects from indebted colle=e graduates. If you think this sounds unencouraging, you’re not al=ne." Read more...<=span>

Megan McArdle: "The economics=literature is full of simple, elegant solutions that don't work. And many =f those solutions founder on the same thing: transaction costs." Read more...

Mark Gilbert: "The bleak econ=mic picture painted by today's earning report from the world's biggest bal= bearings maker was worrisome enough. But combined with sales news indicat=ng weak consumer demand for staples such as toiletries and food, they sugg=st the global economy is far more fragile than most observers have acknowl=dged." Read more...

Leonid Bershidsky: "Last year= the BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- a=nounced the creation of their own $100 billion currency reserve and a New =evelopment Bank as alternatives to the IMF and the World Bank. The continu=ng embarrassments of former IMF bosses and intractable U.S. resistance to =eform make the venture attractive." Read more...

2016 Elections

Jeanne Cummings: Heather Pode=ta is one among several lobbyists raising money for Hillary Clinton's pres=dential campaign."Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton's 2008 campaign, =nd Scott Pastrick, a veteran of President Bill Clinton's 1992 victory, are=also back in action after the Clinton campaign sent word this week that it=s abandoning President Barack Obama's policy of refusing campaign checks f=om lobbyists." Read mo=e...

Transportation

Adam Minter: Airline passenge=s might think of smaller seats as a fair tradeoff for lower fares. "But wh=t if, in addition to threatening one’s sanity and aching back, cra=ped airline seats threatened one’s safety?" Read more...

India

Dhiraj Nayyar: "Under Prime M=nister Narendra Modi, India’s government has gone to great lengths=to distinguish itself from the supposedly anti-business policies of its pr=decessor. ... Now the government is in danger of undoing any goodwill it m=ght have earned." Read=more...

News Roundup

Katie Benner (Read the news roundup)=/p>

Quirky partnered with Mattel to turn crowd-sourced ideas i=to new toys. Read more...

Spotify is upping its lobbying efforts in Washington and E=rope. Read more...

Teespring, which makes T-shirts, not software, is poised t= be a massive venture-backed company success. Read more...

Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup)

Timing of rate rise is overrated: Read more...

Big Oil is about to lose control of the auto industry. Read more...<=li>

Where have all the consumers gone? Read more...

Jonathan Bernstein =span class="roundup-read-more" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;te=t-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;line-hei=ht:1.6em;text-transform:none">(Read the news roundup)<=span>

Rick Hasen is strongly against Hillary Clinton's campaign =or a constitutional amendment on money in politics. Read more...

Richard Skinner at Mischiefs of Faction argues against com=aring Marco Rubio to a 2008 Barack Obama. <= href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2i6tg.=63/VTEx2EmOew9ZVpRCBaadf" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;line=height:1.6em">Read more...

Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner on the foreign pol=cy differences between Rubio and Ted Cruz: =a href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2i6tg=y63/VTEx2EmOew9ZVpRDB772f" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Read more...

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