published Aug 8th 2016, 6:23 pm, by Elizabeth Campbell (Bloomberg) — Chicago school officials presented a budget that relies on the state of Illinois passing an overhaul of its underfunded pension system and assumes that the teachers’ union will agree to pay more into their retirement funds. The $5.4 billion

©2015 Bloomberg View NTQV4H6KLVRB (Bloomberg View) — While much has been made of how the war against Islamic State gives Iran a chance to increase its influence across the Middle East, another country has already parlayed the violence into tangible gains: Jordan. Just a decade ago, the tiny, oil-poor Hashemite kingdom