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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Aug 12, 2015

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The Editors: "Congress's most=recent fight over highway spending seemed awfully familiar. Once again, au=horized cash for transportation projects was dwindling. Once again, no one=could agree on a proper extension. And once again, Congress ended up passi=g a stopgap bill -- the 34th in six years, in fact. By now, it should go w=thout saying that this is no way to pay for public works." Read more...

Work

Leonid Bershidsky: "France's =amous 35-hour work week is in its death throes: Bloomberg News reports tha= an increasing number of companies are using the country's timid labor ref=rm, introduced this year, to get around the requirement. It doesn't mean t=e experiment failed, but it has probably have outlived its usefulness." Read more...

Economics

Noah Smith: "Without the gove=nment research that created space technology, Elon Musk's SpaceX wouldn't =ave been created. But without Elon Musk, it also wouldn't have been create=. Musk and the government are two links in a chain, each of which is indis=ensable." Read more...=/a>

Investing

Barry Ritholtz: "Myths that b=come Wall Street rules of thumb have existed for as long as there have bee= trading desks. They are legion, they pop up regularly and most of the tim= they are terribly wrong. Woe to the unwary trader who relies on the urban=legends to inform an outlook." Read more...

Wall Street

Yves Smith: "The people who m=nage some of the country's largest public pension funds say they want gove=nment regulators to help them avoid getting ripped off when they invest in=private equity firms. Instead, regulators should push them to do a better =ob of monitoring the investments on their own." Read more...

Russia

Marc Champion: "What were Rus=ia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization up to when they conducted la=ge-scale military exercises over the past year? A report published Wednesd=y ignores bland official explanations and concludes, based on what moved w=ere during the two maneuvers, that each was preparing for invasion by the =ther." Read more...

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The new switchers: Read more...

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