©2016 Bloomberg View O19FWE6JTSEP (Bloomberg View) — Banks Goldman Sachs announced earnings today, just barely squeezing some of its $5.1 billion mortgage settlement into the fourth quarter; earnings were down year-over-year because of that charge. Here is the press release. There is a lot of gloom at the banks. “Once Wall

©2015 Bloomberg News NVTLDV6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — In the wake of Thursday’s mass shooting in Oregon, a familiar political pattern has emerged, with Democrats advocating for tougher gun laws and Republicans arguing that such legislation won’t make a difference in curbing firearm deaths. To make the latter point, two of the current GOP presidential candidates, New