published Feb 17th 2017, 5:51 am, by Chris Stokel-Walker (Bloomberg) — When the treadmill simply won’t do, there’s always another option — fly to France to be coached by Olympians. A new, five-day boot camp aimed at amateur — and well-heeled — triathletes, cyclists and runners offers the chance to

published Feb 20th 2017, 4:00 pm, by Jonathan Ferziger (Bloomberg) — When U.S. President Donald Trump said Feb. 15 that Israelis and Palestinians could hash out for themselves whether the answer to their decades-old conflict is one state or two, he resuscitated an option previous administrations had buried. Below is

published Feb 20th 2017, 5:15 pm, by Matthew Winkler (Bloomberg View) — With populists emulating autocrats from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, free markets are being forced to confront crony capitalism. One response is visible in the reversal of fortunes of Malaysia and Indonesia. The two nations still wrestle with the politics

published Feb 16th 2017, 1:05 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — For the last several years it has been increasingly common to hear Israelis and Palestinians alike say that the two-state solution to their struggles is dead and that the time has come to discuss a one-state solution. U.S.

published Feb 16th 2017, 11:01 pm, by Michelle Jamrisko (Bloomberg) — As nations the world over struggle to accommodate, or stem, the flow of a record number of migrants, economists are trying to make sense of the surge in data on how both refugees and the communities they land in

published Feb 19th 2017, 12:53 pm, by Margaret Talev (Bloomberg) — Reince Priebus said Donald Trump and his advisers are not aware of any contacts between the president’s associates and Russian agents during the 2016 election campaign. “We don’t know of any contacts with Russian agents,” Priebus said on NBC’s

published Feb 16th 2017, 3:25 pm, by Dana Hull (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. won’t be certified this year to send astronauts to space and may be delayed into 2019 because of potential safety hazards, according to U.S. investigators. Boeing parachute systems haven’t been adequately evaluated

published Feb 16th 2017, 1:15 pm, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — The sorry state of American infrastructure is once again our focus. This time the peg is the Oroville Dam in California. It is the U.S.’s tallest dam, and it is in trouble. An emergency spillway was damaged, causing

published Feb 15th 2017, 4:00 am, by Nafeesa Syeed (Bloomberg) — It’s not just the Democratic Party learning lessons from cyber attacks linked to Russia during the 2016 U.S. election: hackers, too, are shifting their tactics, according to the co-founder of computer security company CrowdStrike Inc. Undeterred by tighter sanctions

published Feb 15th 2017, 2:34 pm, by Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) — Oil closed near $53 a barrel as record U.S. inventories tempered the impact of OPEC’s production cuts. American crude supplies climbed 9.53 million barrels to 518.1 million, the highest level in weekly data going back to 1982 and more