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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

May 11, 2015

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The Editors: "Incomes for all=but the most affluent in the U.S. have been squeezed in recent years, and =here's no relief in sight. Many fear that the economy is being hollowed ou= -- that middle-class Americans rely on jobs that can no longer command go=d wages or aren't needed at all. ... What's required is a strategy that ap=lies different ideas in a coherent way, so that hardworking Americans can =nce again expect to share in the country's success." Read more...

The Editors: "Time was, anyon= with a good idea and some startup money could take a chance and open a bu=iness. That risk-taking spirit kept millions of middle-class Americans upw=rdly mobile, with jobs that let them buy homes, raise families, send the k=ds to college and retire comfortably. That's less true today." Read more...

Politics

Peter R. Orszag: "Young peopl= are disaffected with the political process and lack any interest in runni=g for office, a new book by Jennifer Lawless of American University and Ri=hard Fox of Loyola Marymount University demonstrates. Yet the book itself =erhaps unintentionally underscores one of the key reasons why: We know too=much about our politicians." Read more...

U.K.

Pankaj Mishra: "Buoyed by his=unexpected triumph, Prime Minister David Cameron may well find himself pre=iding over the final disintegration of post-imperial Britain. Seventy year= after the end of World War II, when an exhausted Britain began to give up=its far-flung possessions, the country confronts its grimmest post-imperia= fate: division, isolation, and irrelevance." Read more...

Russia

Leonid Bershidsky: "President=Vladimir Putin's latest attempt to justify the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop=pact, which allowed Germany and the Soviet Union to divide up Poland in 19=9, holds a clue to the Kremlin's behavior in the Ukraine crisis." <=pan class="topic-read-more" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;text-=ecoration:none;color:#00b9e7;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;line-height=1.6em;text-transform:none">Read more...

Health-Care Reform

Jonathan Bernstein: "We don't=know whether the Supreme Court's decision in the King case will be to take=away subsidies for people who signed up for insurance through healthcare.g=v, the Obamacare exchanges. But if that is what happens, the legislative p=litics of a fix are increasingly clear." Read more...

Wall Street

Matt Levine: "It was only a y=ar ago that we were talking about whether a criminal indictment of a big b=nk would cause the collapse of that bank, or even of the broader financial=system. ... But a criminal guilty plea no longer comes with the expectatio= that it will destroy a bank. Instead it comes with the expectation that t=e bank's business will continue exactly as usual." Read more...

Declassified

Eli Lake: "Leaders from six Gulf Ara= nations will assemble at Camp David this week to ask Barack Obama for sec=rity guarantees against Iran. It's an awkward moment for the members of th= Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC. They are seeking commitments from a man=whose signature foreign policy achievement would allow Iran to keep much o= the nuclear infrastructure Obama once promised to roll back." Read more...

News Roundup

Katie Benner (Read the news roundup)

Airbnb now has more than a million rooms, but the hotel in=ustry says it still doesn’t see the company as a threat. Read more...

Pinterest employees can sell some of their stock as part o= the company’s current $553 million funding round that values the =ompany at $11 billion. Rea= more...

Blockchain technology is coming to the Nasdaq to create a =ay to trade private shares. Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup)

This time it's different for investors? No -- and yes: Read more...=/li>

Is it time for a no-bond portfolio? Read more...

What retirement savers need to know about the fiduciary ru=e: Read more...=/span>

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