Share the View: '70s Buffett Was the Coolest Buffett

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

FEBRUARY 28, 2015 bloombergview.com

COMPANIES Justin Fox: "In March 1971, Warren Buffett signed his name for the first time to the annual 'letter to the stockholders' of Berkshire Hathaway. ... I'm going to take a stand and declare that 1970s Warren Buffett is totally the coolest Warren Buffett." Read more... TERRORISM Leonid Bershidsky: "The two Uzbeks and one Kazakh who were arrested this week in Brooklyn for allegedly making plans to join Islamic State found their way to the extremist group only after they immigrated to the United States. You have to wonder whether there's something about their experience in the U.S. -- rather than the Central Asian countries they left -- that inspired them to radicalize." Read more... DECLASSIFIED Josh Rogin: "A bipartisan group of senators introduced new legislation Friday afternoon to mandate Congressional review of any nuclear deal the Obama administration strikes with Iran. It's the latest effort by Congress to assert some kind of oversight of the administration's efforts." Read more... WALL STREET Stephen Mihm: "We learned this week that the legendary money manager Irving Kahn, who not only survived the Crash of 1929 but even made a profit, had died at 109. His career may be proof that working on Wall Street and living to a ripe old age don't have to be mutually exclusive."Read more... ENTERTAINMENT Stephen L. Carter: "The half-Vulcan, half-human Spock reminded us adolescents of ourselves." Read more... CULTURE Megan McArdle: "Twenty-eight million times." As of yesterday afternoon, "that's how many times people had viewed Buzzfeed's poll on the infamous dress -- you know, the one that's white and gold, unless it's blue and black. Depending on what part of the picture I look at, I've seen it both ways. And as I stared at the Internet's favorite optical illusion, I've been pondering the mystery of viral content." Read more... IMMIGRATION Ramesh Ponnuru: "You can see why Mitch McConnell wants out of this fight." Read more... CONGRESS Jonathan Bernstein: "The CBO is important -- but only to the extent that Congress cares about what it says. Lawmakers can always ignore its reports if they wish." Read more... HEALTH-CARE REFORM McArdle: "Jonathan Gruber -- yes, that Jonathan Gruber -- is in trouble again. This time he's being pummeled by liberal state governments for whom he's done work." Read more... LATIN AMERICA Mac Margolis: "The stink from Brazil's multibillion-dollar Petrobras scandal is worsening by the week, dragging down the economy and with it President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes." Read more... LAW Noah Feldman: "I caution my students against seeing the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices as antiquarians, eager to take our jurisprudence back to the 18th or 19th centuries. ... But every so often there's an opinion that conforms to the stereotype. Justice Samuel Alito issued such an opinion Wednesday in an otherwise obscure case about -- not joking -- teeth-whitening in North Carolina." Read more...