Baseball’s Defensible Position on Violence: Kavitha A. Davidson
©2016 Bloomberg View O3DVE96JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — Major League Baseball took a major step toward fighting domestic violence in sports Tuesday, suspending newly acquired New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman for 30 games. But is it enough? Is it fair? The unpaid suspension is the first under the league’s new domestic
China Calms Jittery Investors With Yuan Stability, Clear Message
©2016 Bloomberg News O3DY136K50YC (Bloomberg) — Chinese authorities seem to finally be getting through to investors after months of confusion about the nations’ economic policies helped drive a $9 trillion global equity rout. Recent moves such as ruling out the possibility of a one- off yuan devaluation, a new head
Trump Wins Five Super Tuesday States as Ted Cruz Takes Texas
©2016 Bloomberg News O3E33W6TTDSR (Bloomberg) — Republican Donald Trump will take at least five states as he heads toward a commanding Super Tuesday showing that will give him a firmer grip on the party’s presidential nomination that will become increasingly difficult for his rivals to break. Texas Senator Ted Cruz
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Benign Ownership and Opaque ETFs
©2016 Bloomberg View O3BAFL6JTSEF The Buffett letter Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter this weekend contained the requisite quantum of folksiness, but in some ways the most old-fashioned part was this description of the differences between Berkshire Hathaway and its occasional partners at 3G Capital: Their method, at which they have been extraordinarily
Places Where You Can Get a Job and Afford a House: Justin Fox
©2016 Bloomberg View (Bloomberg View) — The U.S. is a nation divided — divided between zip codes where economic times are good and zip codes where they really aren’t. This map was compiled by the Economic Innovation Group, a new Washington think tank with Silicon Valley backing. It’s based on
Oil Trades Below $33 as U.S. Explorers Idle More Rigs Amid Glut
©2016 Bloomberg News O3A7XP6TTDS0 (Bloomberg) — Oil traded below $33 a barrel as U.S. drillers cut the number of active rigs to the lowest level in more than six years amid a global glut. Futures slipped as much as 0.8 percent in New York after posting the biggest weekly gain
Trump Passes Up Chance to Disavow White Supremacist Support
©2016 Bloomberg News O3A5ER6K50XT (Bloomberg) — Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump came under fire Sunday for passing up a chance to condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and other white supremacists, as well as for retweeting a quote from Italian fascist Benito Mussolini. “I know nothing about David Duke,”
Meteor Explodes with More Force than the Hiroshima Bomb : A Well Thought Out Scream by James Riordan
On February 6th, a meteor exploded over the Atlantic with more force than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima to end World War II. Usually, when a meteor enters out atmosphere it starts burning immediately and is disintegrated well before it hits the ground. Sometimes the meteor is so large that it still makes
Trump’s Promises Don’t Hold Up to Fact-Checking: Albert R. Hunt
©2016 Bloomberg View O39NP56KLVR7 (Bloomberg View) — A powerful force driving Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the presidential race is the frustration of grass-roots voters that politicians in Washington haven’t kept their promises. QuickTakeHow the U.S. Elects Its Presidents Democrats, though still high on President Barack Obama, are upset
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Sovereign Bonds and Merger Misgivings
©2016 Bloomberg View O33WB46JTSEK (Bloomberg View) — Sovereign debt If you are an investment banker, your job, more than making money or avoiding risk or anything else, is to not miss deals. That is the measure of your worth as a banker and a person: If deals happen, did you do them? If