published Jun 1st 2016, 7:31 pm, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) —In this turbulent election year, one constant theme for leaders of both major parties is a desire to build a global coalition against the Islamic State. Now a relatively unknown group is taking that message literally. On Wednesday, a

published May 31st 2016, 8:11 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Banks. One simple plausible story about the U.S. banking industry is that in 2006 it was fun and aggressive and wild and dangerous, and in 2026 it will be boring and sleepy and safe and utility-like, but in

published May 31st 2016, 3:57 pm, by Chris Dolmetsch and Edvard Pettersson (Bloomberg) — Donald J. Trump claimed he’ll win a lawsuit alleging his namesake real-estate school swindled students as documents unsealed in a related racketeering case showed the hard sell given hesitant prospects. Trump University team members were told

published May 31st 2016, 4:54 pm, by Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff during her time as secretary of state, Cheryl Mills, said she simply never thought about the prospect that some of Clinton’s private e-mail exchanges wouldn’t be retained under federal records laws. “I wish I

published May 30th 2016, 1:00 am, by Mark Whitehouse (Bloomberg View) — Greece and its creditors may have averted a crisis by agreeing on the release of another dose of bailout money, but the deal does little to address a deeper problem: Europeans still don’t want to put their money

published May 30th 2016, 5:00 pm, by Pankaj Mishra (Bloomberg View) —In Austria last month, nearly half of the electorate voted for the presidential candidate of a party set up by former Nazis. The politics of fear unequivocally triumphed in Assam, a state in India’s northeast, where Prime Minister Narendra

published May 30th 2016, 5:48 pm, by Elizabeth Campbell (Bloomberg) —Illinois lawmakers overrode Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of a law that gives Chicago a partial break on its pension payments to police and fire retirement funds. The House followed the Senate’s vote Monday to nix the veto. Rauner, a first-term

published May 26th 2016, 1:22 pm, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — The just-published book “Concrete Economics,” by University of California-Berkeley professors Brad DeLong and Stephen S. Cohen, needs an expanded sequel — 900 pages long, with charts, data, theory and an exhaustive list of historical case studies. That book

published May 26th 2016, 11:33 am, by Shira Ovide (Bloomberg) — Coming to a multiplex cinema near you, for the last 15 years: Big tech company swoops in to rescue a damsel-in-distress media company. Too bad it’s a meet cute that makes little sense. In a world where the lines

published May 26th 2016, 4:27 pm, by Brian Wingfield (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would rescind “job-destroying” Obama administration environmental actions within 100 days of taking office and cancel a landmark international climate deal reached last year in Paris. “His policy is death by a thousand