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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Jun 19, 2015

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The Editors: After Wednesday'= mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, President Barack=Obama "offered no hope for responsible gun legislation from Congress. He c=lled for an American reckoning with gun violence. But he sounded like he h=d no capacity for inspiring one. Interestingly, the president was more hop=ful about the other disturbing aspect of this case: racism." Read more...

WALL STREET

Mark Gilbert: "How do you pro=e you don't have $35 million of ill-gotten gains parked in an offshore acc=unt? That's the dilemma facing Navinder Singh Sarao, known variously as th= 'Flash-Crash Trader' and the 'Hound of Hounslow' and currently residing a= Her Majesty's pleasure in London's Wandsworth prison." Read more...

LAW

Noah Feldman: In a rare move,=Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas threw his lot in with the court's li=erals and provided the decisive vote in the Texas license plate case. "The=court’s sole black justice was telling us that the Confederate bat=le flag still means something -- and the state shouldn’t have to a=low it just because it makes some money letting people brag about their go=fing on their license plates." Read more...

Feldman: "The U.S. Supreme Co=rt just made it much easier to prosecute child abusers. In principle, that=E2��s a good thing. But it came at the expense of weakening the consti=utional right to confront your accuser in court -- and that’s unfo=tunate." Read more...=/a>

ASIA

Pankaj Mishra: "History clear=y didn't end with the triumph of market capitalism and democracy. Those wh= seek to disprove this old dogma often point to the eruption of radical Is=am and the counteroffensive by the West -- two events which have indeed ov=rshadowed the last decade in many countries." But history has accelerated =ore dramatically -- in the wrong direction -- in China, India and Russia.<=span> Read more...

NATIONAL

Stephen L. Carter: "I'm all f=r finally getting a female face back on U.S. currency, but why demote Alex=nder Hamilton? Hamilton, whose image currently adorns the $10 bill, is amo=g the most admirable of the founding generation. But because he lacks a co=stituency, he's an easy target. And that's too bad." Read more...

ASIAN ECONOMY

William Pesek: Mahathir Moham=d -- the former Malaysian prime minister known for his mercurial governing=style and fiery rhetoric -- has a new target: Najib Razak, Malaysia's curr=nt prime minister. "But Najib has nobody to blame but himself for the atta=ks, given the country's underlying economic distress." Read more...

LATIN AMERICA

Mac Margolis: "Forget for a m=ment that Brazil is in its worst recession in a quarter century, Latin Ame=ica's exports are in the tank, and citizens across the region are marching=against corruption. No matter that in parts of the Western Hemisphere, hum=n rights are worth less than the Venezuelan bolivar. These days, whenever =he Organization of American States convenes -- as it did this week in Wash=ngton for its 45th general assembly -- magical thinking takes over."Read more...

POLITICS

Jonathan Bernstein: "If the S=preme Court recognizes marriage equality as a constitutional right in the =ext month (a decision could come as early as Monday), it would be a real s=ocker if even one of the huge flock of Republican presidential candidates =pplauds the decision. Instead, the only question is whether all will compe=e to condemn it or if a handful will choose to duck the issue." Read more...

TECH

Megan McArdle: "President Oba=a's administration has been marked by titanic serial IT disasters, and no =ne seems to feel any particular urgency about preventing the next one. ...=If we want these holes fixed before they become catastrophic, we need lead=rs with a scorched-earth determination to have adequate IT." Read more...

RUSSIA

Leonid Bershidsky: "Russia's =ormer finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, came up with an interesting idea fo= turning Russia's recent economic woes to the country's advantage: moving =p the scheduled 2017 presidential election." The problem with this suggest=on is that President Vladimir Putin could use it to take the country furth=r into the past. Read=more...

SPORTS

Kavitha A. Davidson: "Charles=on has only begun to mourn, and understandably, baseball is the furthest t=ing from people's minds. Yet after the shooting in a black church that lef= nine dead and is being investigated as a hate crime, baseball will go on =n the Holy City." But the deep-seated issues behind such a hateful act "ca='t be solved within the confines of a baseball field." Read more...

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