©2016 Bloomberg News O4D41S6JTSED (Bloomberg) — When it comes to fiscal discipline in the European Union, three is the magic number.  That’s a deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP, and five EU states will make the budgetary bad books this year by breaching that level, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg since

©2015 Bloomberg News NP31XY6JTSEF (Bloomberg Politics) — Every few hours, the campaigns of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul send out a donor message about his fight against the PATRIOT Act. In each one, this coming Sunday is marked as a do-or-die moment to block the most loathed provisions of the law.