published Sep 29th 2016, 1:21 pm, by Shira Ovide (Bloomberg Gadfly) — If horror-film villain Freddy Krueger had threatened terror for nine movies but never followed through with evil acts, eventually movie-goers would have stopped being scared of him. Google is at risk of becoming that neutered Freddy Krueger. For

published Sep 26th 2016, 6:17 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — Jobs and wages. Taxes and Social Security. Student debt and retirement. Child care. These are just a few of the crucial areas in which the policies of the next president will affect the financial security of all Americans, and

published Sep 28th 2016, 11:30 am, by Steven T. Dennis and James Rowley (Bloomberg) — The Senate defied a last-ditch lobbying effort by the White House and Saudi Arabia by voting Wednesday to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the kingdom to be sued for

published Sep 28th 2016, 11:50 am, by Nacha Cattan and Andrea Navarro (Bloomberg) — Cisco Systems Inc. plans to spend as much as $4 billion in Mexico through 2018 to expand production, creating jobs in the country even as the American company cuts its global workforce by 7 percent. The

published Sep 28th 2016, 11:34 am, by Elaine Ou (Bloomberg View) — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a splash at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico with his plans for an Interplanetary Transport System, along with a disturbingly inspirational ultimatum: “There are really two fundamental paths. One path is we

It seems that Mr. Obama has ridden support from a lot of dissatisfied people into office, two times! That movement has also carried crazy socialist Bernie Sanders very far as well, though he has stalled. That dissatisfaction has also carried Donald Trump very far as he is now the Republican

published Sep 27th 2016, 6:45 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — “Tax drag” doesn’t sound very pleasant, and it isn’t. It’s the friction that taxes inflict on your investment returns, robbing you of easy, risk-free additional money you could be making to live on in retirement. Why aren’t you making

published Sep 27th 2016, 5:56 pm, by Gerry Smith (Bloomberg) —The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton drew more than 84 million viewers, making it the most-watched in history. The number snapped the previous record for the biggest debate audience set during the 1980 contest between Jimmy

published Sep 27th 2016, 7:29 pm, by Andrew Harris and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) —President Barack Obama’s plan for shifting U.S. electrical power generation away from coal and toward cleaner sources was labeled in court as an illegal power grab that would force the creation of a “new energy economy.”

published Sep 27th 2016, 5:51 am, by Lorcan Roche Kelly (Bloomberg) — Iran kills any hopes of an oil deal, Deutsche Bank is under more pressure, and peso traders say Clinton won the debate. Here are some of the things people in markets are talking about today. Oil falls A