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Sep 29, 2015

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Alex Salmond: "How should peo=le react to this outpouring of democratic expression in Catalonia, first i= the international community and the European Union, second, elsewhere in =pain, and third in Catalonia itself? First, the international community sh=uld cease viewing Catalonia as a problem and start to see the opportunity =n this democratic expression." Re=d more...

The Editors: "Now that Greece=has survived a standoff with its European creditors and a snap general ele=tion, it faces another ordeal: reviving its paralyzed banking system. Flaw= in Europe's new banking union will make this job harder than it ought to =ave been." Read more...

Investing

Matthew A. Winkler: "Now ther='s another threat of government paralysis, this time largely over oppositi=n to financing Planned Parenthood. There are many things to fear about the=politics of brinksmanship, but the effect of another rating downgrade is n=t one of them." Read more... =/span>

Middle East

Leonid Bershidsky: "In confli=t resolution, the best path is usually the one that makes more sense, not =he most emotionally attractive one. By that standard, Russian President Vl=dimir Putin got the better of U.S. President Barack Obama at the United Na=ions General Assembly yesterday. It also suggests there will probably be a=compromise in Syria." Read more...<=p>

2016 Elections

Paula Dwyer: "[Jeb] Bush and =Donald] Trump are proposing to do something that would have been heretical=for Republicans only four years ago: Raise the tax bills for a small numbe= of wealthy people by ending the carried-interest loophole that lets hedge=fund managers pay lower rates on performance fees. It wouldn't raise much =oney, possibly $20 billion over 10 years, but symbolically it's a big step=for Republicans, especially since the targets include some generous campai=n donors." Read more...

Economics

Noah Smith: "If banks really =o think that Fed tightening would boost their bottom lines, history is not=on their side. When Japan temporarily ended its own [zero interest rate po=icy] in 2006, the result was simply higher costs for banks, with no corres=onding rise in profits. So if we want to find the reason that Wall Street =ants higher interest rates, we should probably look elsewhere." Read more...

Ukraine Crisis

Marc Champion: "Ukrainians, t=red of corruption, hardship and inept government, want the radical change =hat [former Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili brought to Georgia, af=er its so-called Rose Revolution of 2003. ... The big question is whether =aakashvili can repeat his Georgian reforms without having the Putinesque p=wers he wielded in Georgia. Won't he simply get sucked into the same refor=-blocking morass as the government in Kiev?" Read more...

Media

Justin Fox: "In the most envy=inducing media news of the week, German publishing giant Axel Springer has=agreed to shell out $343 million for 88 percent ownership of Henry Blodget=s eight-year-old digital news operation, Business Insider Inc. ... As a lo= of people have been pointing out ever since talk of a sale began surfacin= about a week ago, that's a whole lot more than the $250 million that Jeff=Bezos -- who happens to own 3 percent of Business Insider, which he will h=ld onto -- paid for the Washington Post two years ago." Read more...

Masters in Business

Barry Ritholtz: "This week in=our Masters in Business interview, we speak with Arthur Samberg founder of=hedge fund Pequot Capital Management. When Samberg began his first fund in=1986, there were fewer than 100 hedge funds. By 2000, Pequot had become th= largest in the world, according to the Wall Street Journal." Listen...

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