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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

May 18, 2015

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The Editors: "The fate of Ame=ica's most important free-trade agreement this century has become caught i= a debate over its most important free-trade agreement of the last century= When opponents of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership say the deal wou=d be 'Nafta on steroids,' it's fair to say: Yes, and isn’t that th= point?" Read more...=/a>

Noah Smith: "Big government i= good -- up to a point. And people know that big government is good, so th=y allow it. ... If you look at the history of the U.S., Western Europe and=Japan, you see that voters have again and again chosen leaders who are wil=ing to expand the scope of government." Read more...

2016 ELECTIONS

Jonathan Bernstein: "The ques=ions that follow should be viewed as tools for evaluating candidates. The =oal would be to tease out whether politicians appear to have an understand=ng of the traps that swallowed the George W. Bush presidency and would be =ble to avoid making similar errors." <= href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2m9cc.=4pm/VVoYOkmOnk5XK8ILB0cbb" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Read more...

Terrorism

Erin L. Thompson: Islamic Sta=e has flooded its social media outlets with images of its destruction of p=rts of the ancient site of Nimrud and of sculptures in the Mosul Museum. "=ost reporting in the Western press on this wave of destruction has taken I=lamic State at its own word. But this is a mistake. Far from simply wantin= to destroy 'idolatrous,' pre-Islamic art, the group's actions are motivat=d by complex and systematic goals. One aim is profit." Read more...

Russia

Leonid Bershidsky: "One of th= pillars of President Vladimir Putin's new national ideology is that Russi= should occupy the Soviet Union's onetime prominent place in the world. Th=t aspiration, however, keeps hitting snags in areas where the Soviet Union=excelled, such as space launches and ice hockey. These misfires may presen= a bigger threat to Putin's regime than falling living standards." =span class="topic-read-more" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;text=decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;line-heigh=:1.6em;text-transform:none">Read more...

China

Peter R. Orszag: "China is ei=her at or near the so-called Lewis turning point, where it is no longer hu=ely productive to shift workers from agriculture to manufacturing. Now, gr=wth will need to come increasingly from so-called total factor productivit=, which itself is driven by technology and innovation." Read more...

War

Mark Buchanan: "Is the world =etting more peaceful? Some academics think so. New research, though, sugge=ts they might be getting their math wrong." Read more...

Cities

Mark Whitehouse: "In the wake=of the riots that rocked the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore=after the death of Freddie Gray last month, one would have expected the au=horities to make an extraordinary effort to restore order in the area. The=latest data on crime and arrests, though, suggest the opposite might be tr=e." Read more...<=span>

European Economy

Mohamed A. El-Erian: "The Gre=k government’s hope is to retain control as it secures time to com=el creditors to agree to an easing of austerity measures, a reorientation =f some structural reforms, greater debt relief and a large injection of im=ediate funding. That is why it will resist a referendum, and why its Europ=an partners will continue to insist on such a vote." Read more...

News Roundup

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Alibaba was sued by luxury brands such as Gucci and Balenc=aga for not doing enough to combat counterfeit goods sold on its platform.=Read more...

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