published Dec 21, 2017, 8:00:10 AM, by Rick Hamlin (Bloomberg View) — When I taught Sunday school to a precocious bunch of fifth and sixth graders, I used to ask, “What about Christmas is not in the Bible?” They were quick to go for the obvious: Santa, the reindeer, Rudolph,

published Dec 24, 2017, 4:33:38 PM, by Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s Christmas wishes include a peaceful America, he said while taking phone calls from children tracking the global travels of Santa’s sleigh — although the president’s social-media activities suggested otherwise. “I think we want peace. What do

published Dec 25, 2017, 10:00:03 AM, by Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — The United Nation’s latest sanctions on North Korea are more likely to hurt ordinary people in the isolated nation than slow Kim Jong-Un’s push to develop missiles capable of hitting the U.S. with nuclear weapons. The UN Security Council

College Football Means Big Business As we enter the end of the year we gear up to complete the college football season. Teams like Alabama. The number one team in the country this year is Clemson coming a record with no losses. Interestingly enough, they will be playing Alabama who

published Dec 20, 2017, 1:36:28 PM, by Anna Edney, Laura Litvan and Natasha Rausch (Bloomberg) — Two bipartisan measures designed to bring down Obamacare insurance premiums will be left out of a year-end spending bill after Republicans agreed with the party leaders to let debate slip into next month. A

published Dec 20, 2017, 6:01:00 PM, by Marek Strzelecki, Ewa Krukowska and Maciej Martewicz (Bloomberg) — Poland defied the European Union’s unprecedented call for member states to punish it for failing to uphold the bloc’s values, signing into law a judicial overhaul that puts the country at risk of economic

published Dec 20, 2017, 6:24:18 PM, by Erik Wasson (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump plans to sign the tax bill on Jan. 3 to ensure automatic spending cuts to Medicare and other programs don’t take effect, according to a House Republican aide familiar with the plans. The White House informed

published Dec 18, 2017, 3:00:00 PM, by Jeanette Rodrigues and Alessandro Speciale (Bloomberg) — Central bankers around the world have set up or are creating departments to embrace big data in the quest for deeper insight into the economies they manage. “Isaac Asimov once said, ‘I do not fear computers.

published Dec 19, 2017, 4:00:09 AM, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — With so much advice out there about saving money, being encouraged to spend could sound a little weird. But that’s what some financial services firms are telling retirees to do—to make a New Year’s resolution to use more of

I still remember how our Social Studies in high school drilled into our minds how the signers of the Declaration of Independence were risking their lives signing that document. That they were, yet they were not going to allow themselves to be bullied to by any music celebrity, actor, anyone