published Mar 17th 2017, 3:09 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — The reaction to Trump’s budget has been, let us say, loud, with headlines blaring about cuts to poverty programs and social media going viral with angry denouncements of the White House budget chief who proclaimed that cutting meals

published Mar 19th 2017, 5:00 pm, by Jonathan Ferziger and David Wainer (Bloomberg) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s threat to dissolve his government for a fourth time is overshadowing a trade trip to China meant to promote deals with some of the country’s biggest corporations. Netanyahu told ministers from

published Mar 13th 2017, 11:29 am, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — A friend recently asked me whether women’s entry into the workforce has been good for men. I couldn’t give him a clear answer, because it’s a complicated question. Overall, the answer is yes, but the change hasn’t been

published Mar 16th 2017, 6:00 pm, by Yuko Takeo and Nao Sano (Bloomberg) — Smaller Japanese companies may have more to offer investors than their big brothers, says Jesper Koll. The Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index has climbed 12 percent so far in 2017, outpacing the Topix index’s 3.6 percent

published Mar 14th 2017, 12:37 pm, by Jason Schenker (Bloomberg View) — FinTech is now considered trendy enough to be part of the 2017 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas — one of the most important technology and culture conferences in the U.S. — along with Kesha, “Game of

published Mar 16th 2017, 6:39 pm, by Alex Webb (Bloomberg) — Forget robotic vacuum cleaners, medical assistants or butlers, for now industrial robots represent the greatest slice of the $34 billion global robotics market. The classic industrial robot is a deaf and blind arm carrying out repetitive tasks reliably without

published Mar 13th 2017, 2:30 am, by Simon Kennedy (Bloomberg) — Sign up to receive the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox, and follow @Brexit on Twitter. The prime minister will try on Monday to rally the House of Commons to back the bill that would empower her to trigger Article

published Mar 15th 2017, 4:18 pm, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) — The current scandal surrounding President Donald Trump’s tweeted accusations that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower is proof of what might be called the Salena Zito rule. Zito, of course, wrote the essay in the Atlantic how Trump’s supporters

published Mar 15th 2017, 7:45 pm, by Kartikay Mehrotra and Erik Larson (Bloomberg) — A Hawaii federal judge halted President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, slamming it for discriminating against Muslims and handing the administration another setback on a core campaign issue. The decision by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson

published Mar 14th 2017, 3:30 pm, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg View) — Once again, global markets were paced by oil. Crude slumped for a seventh straight day to trade below $48 a barrel at one point, dragged lower this time by reports that Saudi Arabia raised its production back above