As the NCAA college basketball tournament gets closer we can always look at prior history. Over the years we see the same conferences play strong through the entire season: * Big 10 * SEC * ACC * PAC However, what is done through the course of the season which means

published Feb 16th 2017, 1:15 pm, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — The sorry state of American infrastructure is once again our focus. This time the peg is the Oroville Dam in California. It is the U.S.’s tallest dam, and it is in trouble. An emergency spillway was damaged, causing

published Feb 15th 2017, 4:00 am, by Nafeesa Syeed (Bloomberg) — It’s not just the Democratic Party learning lessons from cyber attacks linked to Russia during the 2016 U.S. election: hackers, too, are shifting their tactics, according to the co-founder of computer security company CrowdStrike Inc. Undeterred by tighter sanctions

published Feb 15th 2017, 2:34 pm, by Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) — Oil closed near $53 a barrel as record U.S. inventories tempered the impact of OPEC’s production cuts. American crude supplies climbed 9.53 million barrels to 518.1 million, the highest level in weekly data going back to 1982 and more

published Feb 15th 2017, 8:13 pm, by Adam Haigh and Chikako Mogi (Bloomberg) — Reflation fever failed to spread to Asian hours after global equities soared to the highest level on record. Stocks in Tokyo fell as the yen jumped and U.S. Treasuries climbed after five straight days of declines.

published Feb 6th 2017, 7:02 am, by Kartikay Mehrotra and Chris Dolmetsch (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s effort to bar travelers from seven mostly Muslim nations is on a track to the U.S. Supreme Court, which may eventually decide how much authority the executive branch has on immigration and national

published Feb 14th 2017, 10:21 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) —It’s Valentine’s Day. Time for grim reflection on the many threats to your financial security. Not content to bombard consumers (and journalists) every other day of the year, on Feb. 14 financial services marketers tend to tie themselves in love knots

published Feb 14th 2017, 4:00 pm, by Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) —For consumers, Amazon’s made shipping easy: Just choose the desired delivery date for your goodies and click. For the manufacturers who have to get those products to you, however, shipping remains a troublesome, inefficient, stubbornly analog business. Your “one-click”

published Feb 14th 2017, 7:14 pm, by Jennifer Epstein and Margaret Talev (Bloomberg) —The Trump administration will center its Israel-Palestinian policy goals around peace rather than a two-state solution, a senior White House official said Tuesday on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump.

published Feb 13th 2017, 3:45 pm, by Kartikay Mehrotra and Patricia Hurtado (Bloomberg) —The Justice Department is seeking to pause a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s immigration and travel restrictions by the states of Washington and Minnesota as the White House considers revising its executive order. Washington state’s attorney