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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Jun 02, 2015

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Leonid Bershidsky: Hans-Werne= Sinn, president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich and =n adviser to the German government, has a chilling theory about Greece's s=rategy in its negotiations with its creditors. "In his view, every day tha= Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis=maintain their irritating good cop-bad cop routine, the euro area digs its=lf deeper into a financial hole, which is what the Greeks want." Read more...

Marc Champion: "Greece and it= creditors are running out of road to prevent a default. ... Prime Ministe= Alexis Tsipras advises his counterparts to reread Hemingway's 'For Whom t=e Bell Tolls,' implying that it tolls for them. Well, it's ringing for Gre=ce, too, and especially for Syriza, which got elected on a false promise t= cancel the bailout terms while keeping the euro." Read more...

Sports

Mark Gilbert: "If FIFA was a =ublic company, its shareholders would be in revolt by now. It isn't, of co=rse. But perhaps it should be. The disinfectant of corporate transparency =- glaringly absent from FIFA in its current incarnation as a nonprofit (al=eit one that generated more than $5 billion of revenue in the last four-ye=r World Cup cycle) -- might be the solution soccer's global overseer needs=" Read more...<=span>

2016 Elections

The Editors: Democrats lookin= for an electable alternative to Hillary Clinton should welcome Martin O'M=lley's candidacy. "With any luck, O’Malley’s data-driven a=proach to governing will lead to greater media attention on how candidates=plan to deliver on their promises." Read more...

James Gibney: "Support for hi=her defense spending is axiomatic for the nine declared Republican preside=tial candidates, even the libertarian Rand Paul. Yet few of these candidates have been=as forthright about how they would get more bucks for the bang while keepi=g the deficit in check, also a key part of the Republican catechism." Read more...

Guns

Francis Wilkinson: "College c=mpuses provide near-perfect laboratories in which to observe the primordia= chemistry among testosterone-rich young men, sexual competition, peer pre=sure, illicit drugs and rivers of flowing alcohol. Now, courtesy of the Te=as legislature, the Lone Star State will offer students the chance to expe=ience all that with a twist: concealed firearms in campus buildings." Read more...

Civil Rights

Megan McArdle: "In February, =aura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern, wrote an article for the Chronic=e of Higher Education in which she decried the creeping bureaucratization =nd fear that surrounds sexual activity on campus. Last week, she revealed =hat as a consequence of that article, she had been investigated for violat=ng Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. ... Kipnis's case should have been dr=pped for the same reason that a court would grant a motion for summary jud=ment: because even if all the allegations were true, 'writing about a case=in a way I dislike' is not an act of abuse from which students need to be =rotected." Read more.=.

Investing

Barry Ritholtz: "I have been =tudying behavioral economics, cognitive errors and neuro-finance for almos= as long as I have been working in finance. And while I don't pretend to s=eak for the field, I can say I have learned a bit about it. Not only have = concluded that studying human behavior can make you a better investor, I =ill show you proof that this is happening." Read more...

Economics

Noah Smith: "The U.S. obesity=problem is staggering. In 1960, 14 percent of the population was obese; in=2010 it was 36 percent. Even though overall life expectancy rose by about =even years in that time, it would have been eight if not for the rise in o=esity. That’s old news by now. But the comparison with smoking is =ery interesting. It tells us a lot about why these two public health trend= have gone in opposite directions, and how the obesity problem might be de=eated." Read more...<=a>

Real Estate

Jonathan J. Miller: "Contrary=to conventional wisdom, high and rising housing costs in the U.S.'s bigges= cities are not ideal for an economic recovery. Just the opposite: When ho=sing costs take a big bite out of incomes, it diverts money that could be =pent on local goods and services or invested in new businesses that stimul=te growth." Read more...

Climate Change

Robert Bryce: "For years, env=ronmental activists have opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, claiming that d=velopment of Canada’s oil sands will be 'game over for the climate=' But if those same activists are sincere about climate change, why aren=E2��t they getting arrested outside the White House to protest the use=of corn ethanol? That’s a pertinent question, given a new analysis=from the Environmental Working Group, which finds that corn ethanol produc=s more carbon dioxide than Keystone XL would." Read more...

Tech

Katie Benner: "Bitcoin startu= Xapo recently announced that three financial eminences had signed on as a=visory board members: former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, former=Citibank Chief Executive Officer John Reed and Visa founder Dee Hock. The =ews signaled that Wall Street is taking bitcoin seriously, which may surpr=se those who have followed the electronic currency’s decline." Read more...

Russia

Pankaj Mishra: "Since the end=of the Cold War, rising gross domestic product and regular elections have =ome to mark progress in large parts of the world. Such apparent resemblanc=s to Western-style capitalism and democracy still enthuse many commentator=. But do they actually conceal the deteriorating political and moral healt= of emerging economies until it's too late?" Read more...

News Roundup

Benner (Read the news roundup)

Coupa Software, a cloud startup that makes procurement sof=ware, received $80 million from investors such as T. Rowe Price and Iconiq=Capital. Read more...<=span>

Foursquare users can now summon Uber rides from the Foursq=are app. Read more...<=span>

Ellen Pao is going to appeal. In March she lost the gender=discrimination case she filed against the venture firm Kleiner Perkins. Read more...

Ritholtz (Read the news roundup)

Homeownership is no longer the linchpin of the American dr=am. Read more...

Easy access to money keeps U.S. oil pumping: Read more...

Company taps Web for tough diagnoses: Read more...

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