http://www.bloomberg.com/feed/bview/ Bloomberg View Stories on Bloomberg.com en-gb More euro, but only a bit more Europe. That's the message from Germany's political leaders during the weekend while finance ministers and central bankers met in Washington to discuss issues of global concern, including Europe's debt crisis. LS4TQT6JTSEG01 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:35:17 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/germany-pushes-for-euro-without-losing-sovereignty-the-ticker.html Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority decision last year in Citizens United, which allowed corporations to contribute unlimited sums toward electioneering, was controversial. But the court’s vision of campaign finance disclosure, which was endorsed by every justice except Clarence Thomas, was not. LRZXEW07SXKX01 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:01:27 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/new-ways-to-make-money-start-talking-in-campaign-finance-disclosure-view.html Since the financial crisis hit, investment banks have been rightly criticized for their tendency to be more concerned with their own trading profits than the well-being of their customers. Sometimes, however, an investment bank can take the whole client service thing a bit too far. LRZTEN0D9L3501 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:01:03 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/solyndra-meltdown-may-hit-goldman-s-reputation-william-d-cohan.html Can U.S. citizens count on using the Internet and cell-phone networks to communicate in high-stress situations? The Federal Communications Commission is about to examine that question. Public interest and the law both require that channels stay open. LRZYTW0YHQ0X01 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:00:49 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/phone-web-clampdowns-in-crises-are-intolerable-susan-crawford.html In the spring before he and Friedrich Engels left for England, Karl Marx began sketching out ideas for a book they would write together that would get them past the “theoretical twaddle” and illustrate that to have meaning, ideas -- be they religious, political or economic -- must be rooted in the real world. LRXZQU1A1I4H01 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:00:40 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/manchester-gave-human-form-to-marx-s-theories-commentary-by-mary-gabriel.html Discussions around this weekend’s International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington made it clear that the standard macroeconomic toolkit has little more to offer the U.S. It’s time to try something else. LS3ESW0YHQ0X01 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:00:01 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/u-s-needs-a-meaningful-mortgage-settlement-commentary-by-simon-johnson.html Political independents, who account for more than one-quarter of the U.S. electorate and are probably the key to the 2012 presidential election, are voicing strong reservations about Barack Obama as well as the Republican brand. LRZWPB0UQVI901 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:01:08 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-25/independents-still-seek-their-2012-anointed-one-albert-r-hunt.html Frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiations with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is determined to push for United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state to break the logjam. LRZWHF1A74E901 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-24/abbas-must-push-nonviolence-to-advance-palestinian-cause-view.html Is Russia catching up to the West in the realm of gender-equitable politics? Judging from the rise of former St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko, it could be. LRZT1E6JIJUR01 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:32:02 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/gender-and-loyalty-in-russian-political-theater-jeffrey-tayler.html In 1988, the world's major cosmetics companies were run by men. Ronald Perelman was in the middle of turning around Revlon Inc.; Leonard Lauder headed the company named for his mother, Estee; Lindsay Owen-Jones was appointed chairman and CEO of L'Oreal SA. LRZN1X6K50Y901 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:22:45 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/remembering-erica-kane-one-fierce-businesswoman-the-ticker.html Now that the U.S. has openly accused Pakistan of helping plan and conduct the attack earlier this month on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, the Obama administration’s exit strategy from Afghanistan is looking increasingly cloudy. LRZEE70D9L3501 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:15:43 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/partnership-not-pressure-will-win-pakistan-s-help-vali-nasr.html To hear the ranting and whining surrounding the flap over the Securities and Exchange Commission's former general counsel, you would think we are supposed to rally around the agency just because some of its 3,800 employees feel bad about getting picked on for rotten performance. LRZ9XN6VDKHS01 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:39:23 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/sec-employees-weeping-with-fear-under-scrutiny-the-ticker.html The Federal Reserve's efforts to lower interest rates are supposed to ease the financial pressure on homeowners by helping them reduce their mortgage payments. Judging from the latest Census data, they're not having much success. LRZ8J06VDKHT01 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:09:00 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/-housing-stress-rises-despite-fed-s-efforts-the-ticker.html The political world is so toxic that I needed some relief, so I tuned into a reality show more real than anything on television. I wasn’t disappointed. The stories I heard were at once harrowing and inspirational. And they were deeply connected to the future of the country. LRY5LN0D9L3501 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:06:58 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/worried-about-america-visit-a-boys-girls-club-jonathan-alter.html Twenty years ago, India faced a fiscal crisis caused by profligate public spending and rising oil prices after the first Persian Gulf War. There was a risk it would default on its international payments. LRXSG01A1I4H01 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:03:25 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/a-socialist-push-behind-india-capitalist-rise-commentary-by-pankaj-mishra.html Friedrich Engels had been traveling from England back home to Germany when he decided to make a slight detour in Paris. LRW7QO0YHQ0X01 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:01:11 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/when-marx-met-engels-renegade-industrialist-commentary-by-mary-gabriel.html Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama unveiled his $447 billion plan to put Americans back to work. LRXSGD0D9L3501 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:00:40 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/obama-takes-aim-at-tax-targets-fires-blanks-caroline-baum.html Executives of the failed solar- panel maker Solyndra LLC are refusing to answer questions at a congressional hearing today, a sign that the first serious financial scandal of the Obama administration has arrived. LRXMQQ0YHQ0X01 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:00:08 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/real-solyndra-scandal-is-u-s-approach-to-renewable-energy-subsidies-view.html Since Barack Obama’s inauguration, officials have insisted that Pakistan is “a partner” of the U.S. in the fight against terrorism. LRY3GB0YHQ0X01 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/mullen-s-senate-testimony-challenges-pakistani-leaders-on-terrorism-view.html Investors don't tend to make lots of money betting against China. Just ask hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, who's been shorting the second biggest economy since at least 2009. The place is still growing 9.5 percent, and both Standard & Poor's and Moody’s Investors Service rate China on par with Japan. LRXXJ46VDKHX01 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:13:52 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-22/chanos-bets-on-china-s-economy-recoupling-the-ticker.html