My favorite book of the Bible is the book of Jeremiah. The reason that I love this book is that it does not have a “happy ending.” All throughout the book, Jeremiah does what G-d tells him to do and in response he is beaten, thrown into a cistern/well, put

published Sep 19th 2016, 2:59 pm, by Jeff Plungis (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration is set to unveil a policy framework Tuesday to govern the development of self-driving cars, including new ways for automakers to share information on emerging technology with the government, according to people familiar with the announcement.

published Sep 6th 2016, 4:21 pm, by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley (Bloomberg) — A new way to bet against stocks is born. A few hours after Carson Block announced last Thursday that he was shorting St. Jude Medical Inc. stock over hacking risks to the company’s pacemakers and defibrillators,

published Sep 19th 2016, 4:48 pm, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — What looked like a promising U.S.-Russian deal in Syria has collapsed amid mutual recriminations. Throughout the failed truce, Russia behaved as though it didn’t attach much value to it, and it probably doesn’t want an agreement with the

published Sep 16th 2016, 3:26 pm, by Dani Burger (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks retreated to trim a weekly gain as investors awaited next week’s Federal Reserve meeting, with economic indicators pointing to uneven growth in the world’s largest economy. Banks and energy producers carried the steepest losses Friday, with crude

published Sep 17th 2016, 10:05 pm, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Mark Niquette (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said if black voters fail to vote in sufficient numbers and Donald Trump wins the presidency, he will consider it a “personal insult.” “I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to

published Sep 16th 2016, 11:18 pm, by Kevin Cirilli (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump said at a rally in Miami that Hillary Clinton’s bodyguards should disarm and “see what happens to her.” “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons,” the Republican presidential nominee said Friday. “Take their guns away.

published Sep 15th 2016, 5:56 pm, by Perry Williams (Bloomberg) — Oil headed for a weekly loss on speculation a global crude glut will persist as disrupted supply returns and demand growth slows. Futures fell 0.7 percent in New York, extending a weekly decline to 5 percent. OPEC members Libya

published Sep 15th 2016, 5:00 pm, by Luzi Ann Javier and Megan Durisin (Bloomberg) — For commodities, 2016 started with a bang. If history is any guide, it will end with a whimper. The Bloomberg Commodity Index, tracking returns for 22 components, is heading for a third-quarter slump after posting

published Sep 15th 2016, 5:25 pm, by Michelle Fay Cortez and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in “excellent physical health,” according to his longtime doctor Harold Bornstein, who on Thursday provided a range of details from the candidate’s laboratory reports for the first time. Trump’s