Share the View 2: SOTU and the U.S. Economy

Share The View

THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

JANUARY 20, 2015 bloombergview.com

U.S. ECONOMY Mohamed A. El-Erian: "President Barack Obama will undoubtedly devote part of his State of the Union address tonight to the continued improvement of the U.S. economy. ... But rather than take comfort from these impressive achievements, Congress should consider how much better the economy would have performed, and still could perform, if lawmakers had been able to fully meet their economic policy responsibilities." Read more... Peter Orszag: "Here's a good idea that I'd like to see prominent in President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech tonight: shared capitalism." Read more... POLITICS The Editors: "Taxpayer satisfaction with the IRS is already at a record low. It's about to get worse." Read more... LAW Cass R. Sunstein: "As recently as 20 years ago, it would have been pretty preposterous to argue that the U.S. Constitution requires states to recognize same-sex marriages. But there is a good chance that this summer, the Supreme Court will rule that it does." Read more... ENERGY Robert Bryce: "Nuclear energy is suddenly fashionable -- as new companies are looking to supplant the world's large, uranium-fueled nuclear reactors with kinds that use different fuels and coolants or perhaps even replace fission with fusion. ... Yet these next-generation nuclear companies still need government help." Read more... DECLASSIFIED Josh Rogin: "Republican voters are divided when it comes to key foreign policy issues and the role of American power abroad. But listening to the party's potential 2016 presidential candidates at the weekend's Republican National Committee winter meeting in San Diego, you wouldn't have known it." Read more... UKRAINE CRISIS Leonid Bershidsky: "Donetsk Airport has become a dystopian ruin, with its runways so cratered, only a helicopter could land. Yet both sides in the fight over it keep claiming to control it." Read more... OLYMPICS @AdamMinter (Adam Minter): Please give Kazakhstan the 2022 Winter Olympics. Really. Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) We could just talk about the Swiss franc all day, right? Read more... How levered should an oil company be to the price of oil? Read more... Hey, it's a new dark pool: Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Barron's roundtable: Masters of the game: Read more... The state of the economy, in eight charts: Read more... It's time for market forecasters to admit the errors of their ways: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Come for the Ron Fournier takedown, stay for the references to research about polarization and "leadership." Read more... The ambition gap, explained by John Sides at the Monkey Cage: Read more... Ramesh Ponnuru at the Washington Post explains five myths about Mitt Romney: Read more... Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) Airbnb told the New York State Legislature and New York City Council that it could collect as much as $65 million in hotel occupancy taxes this year. Read more... Palantir Technologies, a big-data analytics company, is raising a new funding round and was most recently valued at $15 billion. Read more... Amazon says it will produce and acquire original movies to release in theaters and on Prime Instant Video. Read more...