published Jul 18th 2016, 2:46 pm, by Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg View) — Finally, the Donald Trump campaign has something that resembles a headquarters: a pop-up office at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland. Walk through the lobby and they are all there, the people you were told existed — or would

published Aug 4th 2016, 4:30 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that $400 million in cash airlifted to Iran in January didn’t represent a ransom payment to secure the freedom of four detained Americans released the same day, and wasn’t a secret. “We were completely

published Jul 19th 2016, 2:00 am, by Clive Crook (Bloomberg View) — The latest terrorist atrocity in France — the country’s third mass-casualty attack in 18 months — demands more than sympathy and solidarity. It calls for a clearer understanding of the threat facing much of the West for the

published Aug 3rd 2016, 4:06 pm, by Sunny Oh and Maria Levitov (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks fell the most in four weeks and currencies weakened amid deepening concern that central bank stimulus from Japan to Europe and the U.S. won’t be enough to support global growth. The Borsa Istanbul 100

published Aug 3rd 2016, 9:02 pm, by The Editors (Bloomberg View) — The tax reform just approved by India’s parliament could transform the country’s economy. Talked about for years, the plan would replace a crazy jumble of national, state and local taxes with an integrated value-added tax. If well-executed, the

published Aug 2nd 2016, 7:03 pm, by Tom Orlik (Bloomberg View) — The collapse of China’s stock markets a year ago was eye-catching, but in the end, hardly earth-shattering. Despite the pain for millions of retail investors, the fact is that stocks remain a small part of the financial system

published Aug 2nd 2016, 3:31 pm, by Anna-Louise Jackson and Bailey Lipschultz (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks declined the most in four weeks, as sliding crude prices and lackluster consumer spending data revived anxiety that global growth will falter. Equities narrowly avoided their worst day since the selloff following Britain’s vote

published Aug 2nd 2016, 11:40 am, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — Crime is on the rise everywhere, except in the crime statistics. That’s not quite right: The number of homicides in the 50 largest cities in the U.S. did rise 17 percent in 2015, with some cities seeing further

published Jul 26th 2016, 1:03 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — The logistical organization of the Democratic National Convention seems to be, as many journalists have commented, a Dumpster fire. Luckily for Democrats, the overwhelming majority of Americans are not attending the convention, and nor are they likely to

published Aug 1st 2016, 6:23 pm, by Christopher Olsen and Claire Boston (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. raised $19.75 billion in the third-largest U.S. corporate bond sale of the year to help finance its planned purchase of LinkedIn Corp. Investors put in more than $50 billion of orders for the deal