published Dec 19th 2016, 12:53 pm, by Oliver Renick (Bloomberg) —U.S. stocks inched higher as investors assessed a rally that has lifted equities to record levels in the past month. The S&P 500 Index added 0.2 percent to 2,262.84 at 1:15 p.m. in New York. The benchmark gauge fell 0.2

published Oct 28th 2016, 6:00 am, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) —Back in 2012, Daron Acemoglu — an economist I follow and greatly respect — wrote a paper along with James Robinson and Thierry Verdier claiming to explain why Scandinavian countries are (supposedly) less innovative than the U.S. Acemoglu et