©2015 Bloomberg View NSD1AY6S9728 (Bloomberg View) — The upcoming decision by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on whether to break ties with the Boy Scouts of America over the admission of gay scoutmasters matters to the Scouts because, as of 2013, LDS-affiliates make up 17 percent of

©2015 Bloomberg News NSTQL56JTSE9 (Bloomberg Politics) — Ben Carson knows from political correctness. During a Sunday appearance on Meet the Press, the retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential hopeful sought to distinguish the uproar over remarks made by Donald Trump about Fox News host Megyn Kelly from the garden variety political

©2015 Bloomberg News NSO2QN6S972H (For more economic analysis, see Benchmark.) (Bloomberg Business) — Is it time to start lowering expectations on what constitutes a healthy job market? Since the start of 2013, payrolls have climbed at an average monthly pace of 225,000. And government data out tomorrow is expected to show

In the early 90s the state of Connecticut was overwhelmed by gang shootings.  Scores of innocent bystanders, including a 7-year-old girl, were getting gunned down in drive-bys.  An editorial in the Hartford Courant said at the time: “The state is becoming a shooting gallery, and the public wants action,” In the

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPM0H6KLVRR (Bloomberg Business) — What if people in your age and income brackets put an average of 8 percent of their salaries into their 401(k) plans, and the top 10 percent squirreled away 15 percent— and you could see it all on your plan’s website? And what if

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPJU86S972D (Bloomberg Politics) — A few hours before Thursday’s Fox News debate, a friend of Donald Trump’s confided to me that Trump was nervous. Not about the competition—he could handle them. No, Trump worried about Fox News, and in particular, debate moderator Megyn Kelly. She’d been hammering him all

  ©2015 Bloomberg News NSPL1K6JTSEE (Bloomberg Business) — Jobs day in the U.S., BOJ does nothing and Allianz is so over Bill Gross. Here are some of the things that people in markets are talking about this morning.Jobs Today’s unemployment report will be closely watched as speculation increases that the Federal

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPLJVSYF01U (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks pared a third weekly drop before a U.S. payrolls report as energy shares climbed with oil and bets grew that China will take more measures to stem a rout. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 0.2 percent to 886.57 at 11:27 a.m.

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPMMN6K50Y5 (Bloomberg) — Another Bangladeshi blogger who wrote about the perils of religious extremism was killed on Friday, the fourth this year in the Muslim-majority country. Unidentified attackers forced Niloy Neel’s wife and sister- in-law into an adjoining room before hacking him to death, sub- inspector of

©2015 Bloomberg News NSN38K6VDKHT (Bloomberg) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was indicted this week on securities fraud charges, has been summoned to court next week by a federal judge to answer for the state’s alleged refusal to recognize all same-sex marriages. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia of San