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

published Sep 26th 2016, 6:17 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — Listen closely tonight. It’s your money and your life. At 9 p.m. ET, in the first presidential debate of the season, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be pressed, to a degree, for details of their various proposals. Jobs,

published Sep 26th 2016, 10:45 am, by Paula Dwyer (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump can thank me later. Drawing from a new study on the economic effects of immigration, I’m going to make the best possible case for the positions he’s taking as the Republican nominee for president. Do immigrants

published Sep 25th 2016, 1:36 pm, by Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump “discussed at length Israel’s successful experience with a security fence that helped secure its borders” during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that lasted longer than an hour, according to a statement from the Republican presidential

published Sep 23rd 2016, 3:10 pm, by Stephen L. Carter (Bloomberg View) — There is a certain tragic irony in the fact that a crackdown on U.S. colleges with low graduation rates was announced during the very week when the Times Higher Education Supplement published its annual list of the