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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Jun 09, 2015

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Eli Lake: "Iran is spending b=llions of dollars a year to prop up the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a=cording to the U.N.'s envoy to Syria and other outside experts. These esti=ates are far higher than what the Barack Obama administration, busy negoti=ting a nuclear deal with the Tehran government, has implied Iran spends on=its policy to destabilize the Middle East." Read more...

Economics

Noah Smith: "In general, beha=ioral economics has failed to penetrate the field of macroeconomics. ... B=t while macro has resisted behaviorism, finance has accepted the new ideas=without even breaking stride. Behavioral finance chugs along mostly undist=rbed." Read more...

Culture

Megan McArdle: "When excerpts=from Wednesday Martin's new book, 'Primates of Park Avenue,' started appea=ing, my first suspicion was that however difficult it may be to exaggerate=the crazy behavior of New York's wealthiest citizens, someone had finally =anaged it. ... What she is doing is the opposite of good anthropological f=eld work; it claims far too much, and collects far too little actual evide=ce." Read more...=/span>

Climate Change

The Editors: "Ontario recentl= announced plans to address climate change. Canada's most populous provinc= thus joins a trend: Where national governments fail to act, states and ci=ies are stepping up. Is that a good thing? It depends." Read more...

Tech

Mark Gilbert: "Overstock.com,=an online purveyor of goods ranging from jewelry to furniture that already=accepts bitcoins for purchases, is selling what Chief Executive Officer Pa=rick Byrne calls the world's first cryptobond. ... Color me just a little =ryptoskeptical. Byrne is offering a solution to a problem that people in t=e world of fixed income weren't aware they had." Read more...

Law

Cass R. Sunstein: "Martin Lut=er King Jr. celebrated civil disobedience as 'expressing the highest respe=t for law.' Invoking King’s idea (if not his name), prominent cons=rvatives are now calling for new forms of disobedience. Some of their argu=ents are hard to accept, but they have a kind of internal logic, and they =re resonating in influential circles." Read more...

Russia

Leonid Bershidsky: "Despite s=ending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign-language propaganda, all=that President Vladimir Putin has achieved outside Russia is the status of=a Bond movie villain. He may enjoy it, especially since there's no 007 in =ight to tackle him, but his variety of pop stardom is growing into a probl=m for his country: He is seen as a bigger threat to the West than his acti=ns warrant." <= href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2p4vo.=1y2/VXcSqEmO3SV-3TowB0629" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Read more...

Guns

The Editors: "Conservative ma=orities in legislatures in the Southern and Western U.S. have aggressively=expanded gun rights in recent years. But there is one venue where the cons=rvative majority has proved surprisingly reluctant to join this movement: =he U.S. Supreme Court." Read more...

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