Share the View: Obama's India Trip

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JANUARY 23, 2015 bloombergview.com

INDIA Dhiraj Nayyar: "In all the talk of 'deliverables' that might come out of President Obama's trip to India this weekend, two areas would seem like no-brainers. Both countries stand to benefit greatly from greater cooperation in civil nuclear power and defense technology, unlike other areas where very real conflicts remain." Read more... ASIA The Editors: "However much they extol the virtues of cooperation, U.S. officials remain wary of China's spreading influence in Asia. ... In one area, however, the U.S. should be aiming to increase rather than diminish Beijing's role: the conflict in Afghanistan." Read more... POLITICS Ramesh Ponnuru: "Democrats have a knack for stumbling into trouble with mothers who aren't in the paid labor force. ... A few months ago, President Barack Obama seemed to suggest that for mothers to leave the labor force for a few years is 'not a choice we want Americans to make.'"Read more... GUNS Francis Wilkinson: A five-year-old in Missouri shot his baby brother earlier this week. Wednesday, a two-year-old shot himself. "Perhaps such tragedies are an acceptable price paid for maximalist gun laws and a laissez faire gun culture. But before accepting that conclusion, let's ponder some of the logic that leads there." Read more... TECH Katie Benner: "The U.S. technology industry might finally get the immigration reform that it wants. Bipartisan Senate groups introduced two tech-focused bills this month." Read more... ENERGY Megan McArdle: "Raise that thermostat and fire up the SUV: West Texas Intermediate crude is hovering around $45 a barrel, and the Costco near my house is currently vending gasoline for under $2 a gallon. But don't start pricing Hummers just yet, because we don't know how long this will last." Read more... WALL STREET Matt Levine: "I've talked about Goldman Sachs's Volckerishness before, because it delights me. And it continues to delight. Here is a story about how 'Goldman has been quietly coming up with several new ways to put its own money to work in formats that appear to stay on the right side of Volcker.'" Read more... COMPANIES Justin Fox: "Corporate chief executive officers tend to be pretty smart, sophisticated people. ... Get a bunch of them from different industries and parts of the world together to talk about their common concerns, though, and the result is almost inevitably fatuous. This explains a lot about the World Economic Forum going on in Switzerland this week." Read more... LAW Noah Feldman: Here's what the lawyer should have done in Wednesday's Supreme Court argument in Rodriguez v. U.S., "a case about the permissibility of bringing a dog to sniff the car after a traffic stop." Read more... U.S. ECONOMY Fox: "What is the key to national economic success? In one view, let's call it the Hamiltonian, big business and government work together to achieve national prosperity and greatness. In the other, the Jeffersonian, the government that governs best is the one that stays out of the way of -- and occasionally helps -- plucky small businesses." Read more... SPORTS Stephen L. Carter: "Should we care whether the New England Patriots broke the rules of the National Football League by slightly deflating the balls used in Sunday's playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts?" Read more...