Share the View 2: Fingerprint Ballots and Facebook Earnings

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JANUARY 29, 2015 bloombergview.com

ELECTIONS The Editors: "Fingerprints can now be used to unlock smartphones, car engines, even guns. Why not ballots, too?" Read more... DECLASSIFIED Josh Rogin: When the Senate Banking Committee debates and almost certainly approves a new bill to increase pressure on Iran today, "some Republican senators are set to try and make the legislation's sanctions tougher. It's a risky strategy that could jeopardize fragile Democratic support and complicate future attempts to overcome President Barack Obama's threatened veto." Read more... TECH Katie Benner: Facebook's fourth-quarter earnings handily beat Wall Street expectations yesterday, "but the social media behemoth still managed to freak out investors. ... Some investors, nervous about how much Mark Zuckerberg can channel Amazon's Jeff Bezos when it comes to managing Wall Street expectations, fled the stock, causing Facebook shares to dip almost 2 percent in after-hours trading." Read more... CIVIL RIGHTS Stephen L. Carter: "The columnist Charles M. Blow of the New York Times has sparked debate this week by his disclosure that his son, a student at Yale College, was stopped at gunpoint by a Yale police officer who said he resembled a robbery suspect. I'd like to take a moment to add my small coda of personal outrage, as the father of an African-American son ... who was also harassed by the Yale police while a student at Yale College." Read more... BANKING Mark Gilbert: "Investors are trashing Greek stocks and bonds in the aftermath of Alexis Tsipras's election. It's the country's banks, however, that are bearing the brunt of the backlash to the new prime minister's anti-austerity promises, and that spells trouble for a government that can't afford to rescue its financial system." Read more... POLITICS Jonathan Bernstein: Stop calling Bill Clinton "president." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) We're on the verge of a crisis, bears warn: Read more... The superinvestors of unconstrained bondsville: Read more... Would Keynes have been fired as a money manager today? Read more... Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Christopher Gandrud at the Monkey Cage on the consequences of failing to predict inflation: Read more... Also at Monkey Cage: Kimberly Marten tries to make sense of Russian intentions in Ukraine: Read more... At National Review, James Pethokoukis shoots down Scott Walker on equal opportunity in the U.S.: Read more... Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) Some good earnings: Read more... Some good corporate communications: Read more... Some Yahoo follow-up: Read more... Benner (Read the news roundup) Newsweek continues in its longish tradition of enraging techies and Internet denizens alike: Read more... Snapchat will host a series of superhero shorts: Read more... Jawbone's finances might be more precarious than previously thought:Read more...