published Dec 21, 2017, 8:00:10 AM, by Rick Hamlin (Bloomberg View) — When I taught Sunday school to a precocious bunch of fifth and sixth graders, I used to ask, “What about Christmas is not in the Bible?” They were quick to go for the obvious: Santa, the reindeer, Rudolph,

published Dec 24, 2017, 4:33:38 PM, by Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s Christmas wishes include a peaceful America, he said while taking phone calls from children tracking the global travels of Santa’s sleigh — although the president’s social-media activities suggested otherwise. “I think we want peace. What do

published Dec 25, 2017, 10:00:03 AM, by Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — The United Nation’s latest sanctions on North Korea are more likely to hurt ordinary people in the isolated nation than slow Kim Jong-Un’s push to develop missiles capable of hitting the U.S. with nuclear weapons. The UN Security Council

published Dec 20, 2017, 1:36:28 PM, by Anna Edney, Laura Litvan and Natasha Rausch (Bloomberg) — Two bipartisan measures designed to bring down Obamacare insurance premiums will be left out of a year-end spending bill after Republicans agreed with the party leaders to let debate slip into next month. A

published Dec 20, 2017, 6:01:00 PM, by Marek Strzelecki, Ewa Krukowska and Maciej Martewicz (Bloomberg) — Poland defied the European Union’s unprecedented call for member states to punish it for failing to uphold the bloc’s values, signing into law a judicial overhaul that puts the country at risk of economic

published Dec 20, 2017, 6:24:18 PM, by Erik Wasson (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump plans to sign the tax bill on Jan. 3 to ensure automatic spending cuts to Medicare and other programs don’t take effect, according to a House Republican aide familiar with the plans. The White House informed

published Dec 18, 2017, 3:00:00 PM, by Jeanette Rodrigues and Alessandro Speciale (Bloomberg) — Central bankers around the world have set up or are creating departments to embrace big data in the quest for deeper insight into the economies they manage. “Isaac Asimov once said, ‘I do not fear computers.

published Dec 19, 2017, 4:00:09 AM, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — With so much advice out there about saving money, being encouraged to spend could sound a little weird. But that’s what some financial services firms are telling retirees to do—to make a New Year’s resolution to use more of

published Dec 19, 2017, 4:00:00 AM, by Adam Williams (Bloomberg) — A chunk of Sempra Energy’s natural gas pipeline sits in the dirt behind a community center in the village of Loma de Bacum in northwest Mexico. Guadalupe Flores thinks it would make a great barbecue pit. “Cut it here,

published Dec 18, 2017, 8:02:58 PM, by Greg Stohr (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order that would temporarily stop a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant from having an abortion. The girl, who is about 10 weeks pregnant, could have an abortion as early as