Subject: Let’s play duopoly!
From: "Bloomberg View" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:02:27 -0400 (EDT)

.footer .iOSLink a {       color: #666666 !important;       text-decoration: none !important;     }      @media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {       body {         padding: 10px !important;       }       .one-column p,       .one-column li {         font-size: 19px !important;         line-height: 29px !important;       }     }A daily digest of opinions and analysisWal-Mart and Amazon Are Buying Their Way to the TopTwo titans are expanding into each other’s turf, and their acquisition targets show how they plan to deal with rivals old and new. Conor Sen sees an emerging duopoly that could further upend the (already shaky) retail industry.How Drug-Company ‘Benevolence’ Silences the SickHere’s a three-part plan for rapacious pharma companies. Step 1: Make drugs wildly expensive. Step 2: Toss a few bucks at patients and advocates. Step 3: Critics? What critics? Joe Nocera examines an underappreciated social cost of excessively pricey medications.Theresa May’s Latest Gambit Is Clever, But Not Too WiseIn a way, the British prime minister was smart to call a snap election for June: Her party enjoys a massive lead over the opposition, and the U.K. economy is still fairly strong. But tactics won’t get you very far without strategy, and Therese Raphael warns that May’s grab for political advantage will come back to haunt her.What Wellesley Students (and Critics) Don’t Get About Free SpeechAnother day, another free-speech controversy at a tiny liberal-arts college. As the usual suspects rehash the usual arguments, Noah Feldman offers a more helpful framework for thinking about the issue.‘Russia’s Zuckerberg’ Has Unfriended Everyone. Should You?The man who founded Russia’s version of Facebook is abandoning it, having decided that social networks are so 2010, and Leonid Bershidsky suspects he’s on the spear’s-tip of a trend: Messenger apps are rising as users become less comfortable with broadcasting their lives.Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. Learn more.Ritholtz’s ReadsA Trump-era strategy for municipal bonds (Barron’s)Global living conditions: a history in five charts (Our World In Data)Advisers split on whether cutting fees for clients is good business (Investment News)(Read Barry Ritholtz’s full daily news roundup here.)Bloomberg GadflyGoldman’s debt trading stumbles without a market tumbleVerizon shouldn’t just wait by the phone for an M&A callAmazon victims’ support group gets a new industrial member(Read more from BV’s sister site for fast business commentary.)Bloomberg L.P. ● 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022Web ● Facebook ● TwitterFeedback ● Unsubscribe

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