published Jan 7th 2017, 11:15 am, by Jennifer Jacobs and Nafeesa Syeed (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as U.S. director of national intelligence, giving the retired Republican lawmaker oversight of the spy agencies that have drawn skepticism from Trump. “Dan has clearly demonstrated the deep

published Jan 3rd 2017, 12:20 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Obama administration shouldn’t release any more detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, warning the prisoners are “extremely dangerous people.” Detainees “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield,” Trump tweeted. The

published Jan 3rd 2017, 8:30 am, by Francis Wilkinson (Bloomberg View) —The religious left is the Sasquatch of American politics. It leaves footprints in the snow but recent sightings of the creature itself are rare, and not always credible. Progressive politics is dominated by secular ideals and, increasingly, secular voters.

published Oct 11th 2016, 8:22 pm, by Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — At No. 5 Experimental Primary School in the coal-mining city of Taiyuan, the red carpet is out. School girls in pink and white stand at the entrance, while fellow students sit in perfect rows inside, awaiting the arrival of

published Dec 28th 2016, 3:50 am, by Richard Vines (Bloomberg) —The world’s greatest chefs are just like us: They don’t like to take their work home with them. When it comes to home cooking, it turns out that the culinary stars behind dishes such as blackberry risotto with game-meat sauce,

published Jan 5th 2017, 7:30 am, by Tyler Cowen (Bloomberg View) —One of the most significant economic debates over the last decade has been over the nature of the U.S. productivity slowdown and what might someday end it. Improving overall productivity requires individual workers to produce more. That’s usually made

published Jan 5th 2017, 2:23 pm, by Shobhana Chandra (Bloomberg) —Forecasts of snow in the Washington area late Thursday into Friday morning raise the possibility of a delayed opening for government agencies that release the U.S. jobs report and trade data. That means the figures could be issued via the

published Jan 5th 2017, 2:56 pm, by Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) —Oil rose as Saudi Arabia was said to meet its pledged output cut this month and U.S. stockpiles fell the most in almost four months. The kingdom is going for full compliance with OPEC cuts so other countries do the

We have made it  into our 3rd year and therefore we want to talk about the Judeo-Christian values of our third president, Mr. Thomas Jefferson. Now I know that Mr. Jefferson is the founding father that all atheists and agnostics love to tout as an example of a person that

published Jan 3rd 2017, 2:55 pm, by Lananh Nguyen (Bloomberg) —The dollar surged to a 14-year high as stronger data in the world’s largest economy boosted the appeal of bullish bets to start the new year. The greenback climbed, and later pared gains, after a report showed American manufacturing expanded