published Oct 6, 2017, 12:32:27 PM, by Cass R Sunstein (Bloomberg View) — Because economics is such a diverse field, with many distinguished thinkers, predicting the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics is notoriously difficult. But suppose that we narrowed the field, so as to focus on candidates who

published Oct 9, 2017, 1:30:01 PM, by Debjit Chakraborty, Dhwani Pandya and Saket Sundria (Bloomberg) —Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant has “mega investment” plans for the world’s fastest growing oil market, according to  Saudi Arabian Oil Co.’s chief executive officer. The company, popularly known as Saudi Aramco, plans to create

published Oct 9, 2017, 4:08:42 PM, by Selcan Hacaoglu (Bloomberg) —With its arrest warrants and visa freezes, the Turkey-U.S. standoff looks more like a flashpoint between enemies than a difference of views among friends. That’s because the crisis, which sent Turkish markets reeling on Monday, blew up only after years

published Oct 6, 2017, 3:00:07 AM, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — Consumer advocacy groups such as U.S. PIRG, along with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, say consumers should be able to freeze their credit reports at all three major credit bureaus easily and for free. Sounds good. But how

published Oct 8, 2017, 5:03:51 PM, by Julie Verhage (Bloomberg) —Want to receive this post in your inbox every morning? Sign up here. Trump tweets about North Korea, Chinese markets come back from holiday, and there’s plenty of economic data due out this week. Here are some of the things people

published Oct 8, 2017, 8:38:56 PM, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Laura Litvan (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump demanded that Congress deliver funding for his border wall and make dramatic changes to immigration policy in exchange for letting young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children stay in the country.

published Oct 5, 2017, 9:56:08 AM, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — Justice Anthony Kennedy’s comments during oral arguments in the partisan gerrymander case, Gill v. Whitford, are fueling speculation that he might provide the decisive fifth vote for a historic decision that could reshape electoral politics. If he does,

published Oct 5, 2017, 1:54:27 PM, by Justin Sink, Toluse Olorunnipa and Rebecca Spalding (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump expects Puerto Rico’s $74 billion debt to be addressed through the bankruptcy process established under a law passed last year, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, not eliminated, as he

I don’t even like the Packers. I do like Aaron Rodgers and I respect there well traveled fans. Actually it cracks me up when they state there are well traveling fans. Just because they see a decent amount of Green Bay or Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys at these stadiums two-thousand or

published Oct 5, 2017, 5:00:08 PM, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — Back in the 1980s or 1990s, few would have predicted that Japan would become the standard-bearer of free trade. This is, after all, the country that once tried to ban foreign-made skis by claiming that Japanese snow was