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©2015 Bloomberg View NY38WP6JTSEK (Bloomberg View) — UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest health insurer, says it might stop selling plans on state insurance exchanges, citing higher-than-expected costs. This news would be mostly unremarkable except for the fact that those state exchanges are part of Obamacare, and it doesn’t take much

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©2015 Bloomberg News NY39236JIJV1 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. strengthened efforts to discourage corporate inversions by making the deals more difficult and limiting the benefits of the transactions, just as an iconic American firm considers shifting its legal address abroad to cut its taxes. Inversions — deals where U.S. companies take

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©2015 Bloomberg News NY3C9J6S972B (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump questioned Ben Carson’s qualifications to be president during an appearance Thursday evening in Iowa, highlighting a New York Times story this week that quoted an adviser to the retired neurosurgeon saying he’d been unable to teach the candidate about the Middle East.

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©2015 Bloomberg View NY0IVY6S972D (Bloomberg View) — Jammin’.Would you buy coffee from this company? We intend to be a business specializing in electronic waste collection, electronic waste recycling, and resource recovery. We believe that the disposal of electronic waste, or “e-Waste” is becoming a serious global issue. Electronics that have

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©2015 Bloomberg News NY14UPSYF01Y (Bloomberg) — Mike Huckabee pumped up the crowd at a rally for a Kentucky clerk jailed over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gays with the 1980s rock anthem “Eye of the Tiger” blaring in the background. Now the Republican presidential contender is facing a

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©2015 Bloomberg View NY1BD46KLVRB (Bloomberg View) — On Wednesday, Jeb Bush missed his chance. After the Paris attacks, many in his party have gone nativist, attacking the President Barack Obama’s modest plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, Obama has gone adolescent, trolling Republicans instead of articulating a coherent strategy to defeat

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©2015 Bloomberg View NXZFJL6KLVR6 (Bloomberg View) — There is a lot of fairly boring back- and-forth debate over hedge fund activism, in which proponents of activism argue that it’s good because it improves corporate performance, and opponents of activism argue that it’s bad because it provides only short-term boosts but is

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©2015 Bloomberg News NXZL3V6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — Kai-Fu Lee, the former China head for Google Inc., is planning an initial public offering at his venture firm, with a portfolio of hundreds of companies valued at more than $2 billion. His startup incubator, Innovation Works, is seeking to list its business management

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©2015 Bloomberg News NXXHH8SYF01V (Bloomberg) — Texas can thank near-record wind output for a slump in power prices to the lowest in five years. On-peak power at the North hub, which includes Dallas, slid $4.10, or 23 percent, to $13.49 a megawatt-hour for the hour ended at 1 p.m. local

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©2015 Bloomberg News NXXH8U6KLVRB (Bloomberg) — The bloodshed in Paris led U.S. officials Monday to renew calls for limits on technology that prevents governments from spying on phone conversations, text messages and e-mails. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat, said she’s asked Silicon Valley companies to help law enforcement and

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