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JANUARY 14, 2015 bloombergview.com

AFRICA The Editors: "In France, terrorist attacks killing 17 triggered a demonstration of support by dozens of world leaders and millions of marchers. In Nigeria, a new attack by Boko Haram terrorists killed hundreds and caused barely a shrug." Read more... POLITICS Josh Rogin: Mitt Romney called John McCain on Tuesday "to tell the Arizona senator that he is 'seriously considering' a third run at the presidency in 2016, McCain said. Romney has been speaking about his intention to run in recent days with donors and former staffers, promising a 'different' style of campaigning this time around but without many specifics about what his new strategy will entail." Read more... Ramesh Ponnuru: "We may finally have an economic recovery worthy of the name. ... But a good economy isn't all good news for Democrats. It's a problem for the party's left -- and especially their efforts to demonize Wall Street." Read more... Jonathan Bernstein: "More evidence that (might) support youth voting!" Read more... GUNS Francis Wilkinson: "The Children's Hour has come to the gun fight. Social media is giving disparate stories of children killed by, or killing with, guns a currency, coherence and reach that they lacked in the analog age."Read more... LATIN AMERICA Mac Margolis: "Like most everyone else, Latin Americans were sickened by the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and thousands of sympathizers poured into the streets across the region. But the small knot of protesters wearing white and distributing roses to motorists at a busy Rio de Janeiro intersection last Sunday were not grieving for Charlie." Read more... TECH Katie Benner: What are we to make of counterintuitive stats "that seem to suggest that the tech industry is in some distress while much of the rest of the economy booms? The hiring and firing numbers point to a nuanced story that's important to keep in mind every time you hear tell of the tech sector's tremendous strength." Read more... Kirsten Salyer: "Here we go again. A new Silk Road opened this month, though it may be just another dead end." Read more... WALL STREET Matt Levine: "Spoofing, sometimes called 'layering,' is a form of market manipulation where you pretend you want to sell a lot of stock, and everyone's all, 'Oh in that case I want to sell a lot of stock too,' and the stock goes down, and you actually buy a bit of stock instead, and you wait like a second and then pretend you now want to buy a lot of stock, and everyone's all, 'Oh well now I want to buy a lot of stock too,' and the stock goes up, and you actually sell back the stock you bought, and you make some money because people are sheep." Read more... LABOR Justin Fox: "First he asked executives at his company to read Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the 21st Century.' Then Aetna Chief Executive Officer Mark T. Bertolini announced Monday that the company will raise the wages of its lowest-paid workers to at least $16 an hour and cut their health-care bills." Read more... LAW Noah Feldman: "What's free speech for? ... On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took a stab at it in a case about directional signs guiding worshippers to the Good News Community Church of Gilbert, Arizona. The oral argument showed how sometimes the most trivial laws can generate the most fundamental constitutional issues." Read more... SPORTS Kavitha A. Davidson: "Bloomberg News's Scott Soshnick reports that Mikhail Prokhorov is shopping the Brooklyn Nets. My message to Nets fans, and New Yorkers at large: Be angry, but don't be surprised." Read more... RETIREMENT @cflav (Christopher Flavelle): Add "retirement" to the list of things Canada does better. Read more... EDUCATION Stephen Mihm: The formalized early decision system we now know wasn't created by elite schools for men; "rather, it was the doing of a small circle of elite women's colleges." Read more... FOOD Megan McArdle: "It has come to my attention that some of you are becoming unable to eat good food unless it is spiced to within an inch of its life." Read more...