©2015 Bloomberg View NXD24H6S972C (Bloomberg View) — Three years ago, demographer and political scientist Nicholas Eberstadt of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote an influential little book on what he called the “entitlement epidemic.” The book, “A Nation of Takers,” was free of partisan rancor — Eberstadt pointed out that

©2015 Bloomberg News NYE5326S9729 (Bloomberg) — Each week, host Alex Sherman, a Bloomberg mergers and acquisitions reporter, is joined by a colleague to discuss the most interesting and market-moving M&A news. In this episode, Alex and Global M&A Managing Editor McCracken discuss the largest deal of the year and the