Share the View 2: Message From Kurdistan

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

JANUARY 30, 2015 bloombergview.com

DECLASSIFIED Eli Lake: "With the victory this week over Islamic State forces at Kobani, Syria, one might think that the U.S. and Iraqi governments would be looking to increase shipments of armaments to the Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting on the ground. But according to the Kurd overseeing much of the ground campaign in northern Iraq, his Peshmerga units are facing a shortage of ammunition and guns just at the moment they have turned the tide against the jihadists." Read more... COMPANIES Leonid Bershidsky: "The current earnings season shows corporate America is awash in cash for which it has no good use. The country's wealth utilization mechanism is broken and needs to be fixed, despite the political stalemate." Read more... TECH Katie Benner: "Google released its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, and those results were pretty lackluster. ... If you're an investor who wants to put money into a potentially volatile but fast-growing tech company, then Google is not the stock for you." Read more... POLITICS Margaret Carlson: "Although this week's Snowmageddon turned out to be something of a dud, barely a snowman's worth, it was a perfect storm of another sort, arising not from colliding low-pressure systems but from the exquisite sensitivity of our politicians and media to other forms of ambient pressure." Read more... EUROPE Noah Feldman: "Why has Greece chosen a far-left government at a time when discontented and frustrated voters elsewhere in Europe have turned to the far right?" Read more... ASIAN ECONOMY William Pesek: "In September, the world will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Plaza Accord. That agreement to weaken the dollar and boost the yen still stands as a landmark of economic cooperation -- something that's sadly lacking in our chaotic and deflationary times." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) Huh, Russia: Read more... Bankers vs. politicians: Read more... Bet on celebrities: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Barbara Mellers and Michael C. Horowitz at the Monkey Cage on geopolitical predictions: Read more... Julia Azari on money, politics, the progressives and Scott Walker: Read more... Derek Willis at the Upshot on where the political ads are: Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) How, and why, Apple overtook Microsoft: Read more... Legends of indexing: Rob Arnott: Read more... Gold tarnishes as U.S. economy strengthens: Read more... Benner (Read the news roundup) Amazon eked out a profit, but the company refused to tell shareholders much about its plans for the future. Read more... Spotify is raising more money with the help of Goldman Sachs and could delay an IPO for another year. Read more... Uber is being sued in the U.S. by the passenger who alleges that she was raped by a driver in Delhi. Read more...