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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Jul 30, 2015

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Eli Lake and Josh Rogin: "Nor=ally when a terrorist leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar is reported de=d, it's good news for the counter-terrorism world. Think Osama bin Laden i= 2011. President Obama boasted about that victory all the way to the next =lection. But experts and U.S. intelligence officials tell us the confirmat=on of Mullah Omar's death may end up being a boon for the Islamic State, t=e former al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq that today is the chief rival to al-Qa=da for jihadists' loyalty." Read more...

Wall Street

Matt Levine: "If you've got a=smallish private company and you want to give it a low value for tax purpo=es, I mean, sure, who am I to stop you? But it's important to make sure th=t you're not accidentally taking value from people who are in the room, or=at least who are right outside the room waiting to see how much they'll ge= paid on their stock options. Because those people are considerably more l=kely to notice." Read =ore...

Tech

Leonid Bershidsky: "Soon afte= Microsoft wrote off the entire value of the handset business it had acqui=ed from Nokia, the Finnish company is unexpectedly back with an innovative=consumer product. Nokia Ozo, a sphere with camera lenses protruding from i=, is refreshingly out of left field." =a href="http://link.mail.bloombergview.com/55086a4c3b35d051538c37cc2vwtd=ebe/VblR9EmOiscDxdBVBf38a" style="text-decoration:none;color:#00b9e7;lin=-height:1.6em">Read more...

Shopping

Virginia Postrel: "They found=that strong early sales -- the traditional indicator of product success --=in fact didn't matter as much as who the early buyers were. And one startl=ng finding was the emergence of an identifiable segment of customers more =rone to buying new products destined to survive less than three years, as =ell as unpopular 'very niche' existing products." Read more...

Environment

Justin Fox: "Eventually it wi=l probably seem offensive not to reuse wastewater in this way -- not just =n California but all over the country and the world. What? You don't drink=treated sewage? Gross!"

Investing

Bershidsky: "The dramatic dro= in the price of gold makes Russia look like a classic sucker: As the pric= went down, it expanded its gold reserves. The Russian central bank is get=ing punished for betting on gold rather than U.S. assets as the Cold War s=emed to restart last year. But it's not that simple -- the gold that Russi='s buying is domestically produced and paid for with devalued rubles." Read more...

Sports

Kavitha A. Davidson: "New Eng=and Patriots owner Robert Kraft issued a damning indictment of the NFL's d=sciplinary system, and of Commissioner Roger Goodell's unchecked power in =he handling of Tom Brady's Deflategate suspension. The problem is, Kraft i= among those responsible for Goodell having that power in the first place.= Read more...

2016 Elections

Margaret Carlson: "It's a com=entary on voters' disgust with politics that they've embraced [Donald] Tru=p as an authentic expression of their boiling anger at the status quo, and=other candidates are emulating him. It's a vicious circle that will take u= all down the drain." =ead more...

Masters in Business

Barry Ritholtz: "This week on=our Masters in Business radio podcast, we speak with international economi=t Dambisa Moyo. Moyo, named by Time magazine as one of the '100 Most Influ=ntial People in the World,' says that China's slowdown creates a challenge=for the government: if it wants to double per-capita income over the cours= of a generation it needs to sustain growth of 7 percent." Listen...

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