published Feb 8th 2017, 2:53 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) —Well-adjusted children and functional marriages go together. But are the kids thriving because the parents’ marriage works, or does the marriage work for the same reasons that the kids are thriving? This is what social scientists call “selection effect,”

published Feb 9th 2017, 4:38 pm, by Kim Bhasin and Lindsey Rupp (Bloomberg) —Before her father became president, Ivanka Trump built a successful fashion label selling clothing, shoes, and handbags in hundreds of department stores and boutiques across the country. But this winter, following an acrimonious election and protests against

published Feb 9th 2017, 7:19 pm, by Yuko Takeo and Toshiro Hasegawa (Bloomberg) —Donald Trump is moving Japanese stocks again; this time in a good way. And exporters are reaping the benefits. The U.S. president’s comment Thursday that a “phenomenal” reconstruction of business taxes will come within weeks sent the

published Feb 8th 2017, 10:30 am, by Rebecca Greenfield (Bloomberg) —Companies like Facebook have spent the last few years beefing up their parental-leave policies to attract and retain the most sought-after workers. Now they’re looking at new ways to help them balance work and life. Up next in the benefits arms race: helping workers

published Feb 8th 2017, 2:10 pm, by David Voreacos, Erik Larson and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump defended his power to put limits on who can enter the U.S., saying it shouldn’t be challenged in the courts even as a three-judge panel weighs whether to reinstate restrictions on refugees

published Feb 8th 2017, 3:36 pm, by Lindsey Rupp (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump criticized Nordstrom Inc. for dropping daughter Ivanka’s brand from the department-store chain, drawing a new company into the president’s ongoing skirmishes with corporate America. “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly,” Trump said on his personal

I remember growing up and going to An Officer and a Gentleman. I remember in response to seeing that second movie, all the kids in my school were asking each other, ‘Where are you from?” and then gleefully replying, “Only two things come out of [wherever you said you were

published Feb 3rd 2017, 10:34 am, by Ben Steverman (Bloomberg) — A new move by President Donald Trump may mean higher costs for individual investors and retirement plans, especially 401(k)s offered by small businesses. The good news, though, is that you can protect yourself against his order, which delays and

published Feb 7th 2017, 1:52 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — A law passed Monday by Israel’s Knesset potentially puts the country in violation of international law by retroactively legalizing 4,000 homes built by Jewish settlers on private Palestinian land. But remarkably, the possibility of war-crimes charges isn’t the

published Feb 7th 2017, 4:10 pm, by Tim Ross and Robert Hutton (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Theresa May kept her plan to trigger Brexit on track after defeating a rebellion from some of her own Conservative Party colleagues by promising them a vote on the final deal with the European