published Mar 17th 2015, 12:35 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — Robert Putnam’s “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” has touched off a wave of print and digital commentary. The book chronicles a growing divide between the way affluent kids are raised, in two-parent homes whose parents invest

published Oct 5th 2016, 10:12 am, by Shelly Banjo (Bloomberg Gadfly) —  Is this the end of the line for Sears? Not exactly. The slow-burning department-store chain is in talks to sell its Craftsman tool business for around $2 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. At first glance, this seems like

published Oct 5th 2016, 8:17 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Insider trading. I don’t know what else there is to say about the Salman insider trading case being argued before the Supreme Court today, but I guess Salman’s and the government’s lawyers will find something. If you pass inside

published Oct 5th 2016, 11:29 am, by Robert Tuttle (Bloomberg) — Alaska’s oil reserves may have just gotten 80 percent bigger after Dallas-based Caelus Energy LLC announced on Tuesday the discovery of 6 billion barrels under Arctic waters. The light-oil reserves were found in the company’s Smith Bay leases between

\published Oct 4th 2016, 9:19 pm, by John McCormick and Mark Niquette (Bloomberg) — Democrat Tim Kaine repeatedly tried to bait Republican Mike Pence into defending his running mate’s most controversial positions and statements, but the Indiana governor deflected the attacks with the kind of discipline Republicans have been urging

published Oct 4th 2016, 9:28 pm, by Luzi Ann Javier and Eddie van der Walt (Bloomberg) — The trickle of investors exiting gold in recent months has grown into a torrent. Gold futures slumped by the most in almost three years on Tuesday amid speculation that the period of easy

published Oct 3rd 2016, 10:44 am, by Eli Lake and James Gibney (Bloomberg View) — James Gibney, a member of the Bloomberg View editorial board, disagreed with part of a column last week by columnist Eli Lake. Their dialogue follows. J.G.: Kudos on a sharp column taking U.S. Secretary of

published Oct 3rd 2016, 1:33 pm, by Greg Stohr (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch bid by President Barack Obama’s administration to revive his plan to shield millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation. The justices Monday said they won’t reopen a case that left the court deadlocked and

published Oct 3rd 2016, 6:43 pm, by Spencer Soper (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is tightening controls on “incentivized reviews,” in which customers receive free or discounted goods in exchange for writing product critiques that many shoppers use when making online purchases. Amazon previously allowed such reviews to help new products

published Oct 2nd 2016, 6:43 am, by Kevin Cirilli (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump was facing renewed pressure to release his personal tax information after a New York Times report that he recorded a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return, a deduction that might have allowed him to