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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Oct 10, 2015

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Leonid Bershidsky: "Strategic=lly, Russia's involvement in the Syrian war looks like a terrible idea, or=at least a big gamble. ... What happens if the land offensive started by A=sad's forces Wednesday with help from Iranian troops and the Iran-backed H=zbollah militia fails to recapture lost territory? Does Russia have a spec=fic goal or at least a time frame? What about an exit strategy? These ques=ions matter only if Russia is in this for the long haul. It has done nothi=g to suggest that it is, however." Read more...

ECONOMICS

Mark Gilbert: "If cutting int=rest rates more than 600 times since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008=hasn't worked, maybe central bankers dropping more money into the economy =rom their helicopters is the wrong solution. Maybe the world needs less Mi=ton Friedman and more John Maynard Keynes." Re=d more...

Noah Smith: <=pan class="topic-contributor-quote" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;=ont-weight:normal;color:#333333;font-size:17px;line-height:1.6em;text-tran=form:none">"Even if bad behavior does make poverty worse, it's also the ca=e that poverty causes bad behavior in the first place. By giving poor peop=e money, we may be able to break that cycle. "

Politics

Francis Wilkinson: "The House=Republican conference is in a pickle. It doesn't want the leader it has. I= just destroyed Kevin McCarthy, its leader in waiting. And the leader it p=rportedly pines for, Representative Paul Ryan, may yet prove unwilling to =escend into the snake pit for the sake of a couple months (weeks? days? ho=rs?) of party unity before the occupants turn their venom on him. The lead=rship vacuum will somehow be filled. But the hot mess isn't an anomaly; it=s the GOP." Read more...

CONGRESS

Jonathan Bernstein: "The Export-Import Bank appears to be back from the dead. Supporter= put together a 'discharge petition' to get a bill renewing it to the Hous= floor, and now have 218 signatures -- which means it will most likely rec=ive a vote and pass the House. What happened? Most likely it's because the=House Freedom Caucus radicals who opposed it overreached." Read more...

Brazil

Mac Margolis: "Even in Brazil= a land calloused by crime, the death of 17-year-old Eduardo Felipe Santos=Victor in a Rio de Janeiro slum was a jolt. On Sept. 29, a foot patrol fro= one of Rio's elite 'pacification' units shot Santos, an alleged drug deal=r. Then -- as captured on video -- a cop appeared to place a pistol in the=prostrate teenager's hand and fire twice. ... Rio authorities acted quickl=, putting the five police officers involved in jail. But more than culling=bad cops, Rio needs to rethink its police." Read more...

Cars

Edward Niedermeyer: "Every ti=e an insurgency threatens U.S. interests in the Middle East, a familiar qu=stion always seems to follow: Where do they get their Toyota pickup trucks= Since the mid-1970s, from Africa to Central Asia, 'technicals' -- light p=ckup trucks with heavy weaponry mounted in the bed -- have been a game-cha=ger for irregular forces. And just as insurgents display a consistent pref=rence for Russian AK-type assault rifles, their brand of choice for techni=als is the similarly rugged Toyota Hilux pickup." Read=more...

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