Share the View 2: Is Democracy a Dirty Word?

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MARCH 2, 2015 bloombergview.com

POLITICS The Editors: "On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case brought by the Arizona legislature against the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. On one level, the case is about gerrymandering, the practice by which state legislators draw their own districts to maximize their chances of re-election. On another level, however, the case is about how much deference elected officials owe the public." Read more... Noah Feldman: "To the Founding Fathers, democracy was a dirty word. ... The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider the question of whether to take the Framers' anti-democratic instincts seriously." Read more... 2016 ELECTIONS Jeanne Cummings: "As the wider world awaits Hillary Clinton's confirmation of her 2016 intentions, Democratic lobbyists in Washington are fixated on a far narrower concern: Will Clinton let them back into the money game?" Read more... INVESTING Barry Ritholtz: "Much of the financial world is all abuzz over the 50th annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, released this past weekend. ... You are not Warren Buffett. And, with apologies to Taylor Swift, you are never, ever, ever getting to a place where you invest like him."Read more... Noah Smith: "These days you hear a lot of people claiming that it's a 'stock picker's market.' ... But don't bet the farm on a return to active management." Read more... LATIN AMERICA Megan McArdle: "For about a decade, Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and, to a lesser extent, Argentina under the Kirchners were popular models for leftists seeking an alternative to the neoliberal consensus. ... All that ended a few years ago, of course." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Eight things millennials want -- and don't want -- show how different they are from their parents: Read more... Uncle Warren explains it all to you: Read more... Google is making its biggest-ever bet on renewable energy: Read more... Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) Mobile World Congress, the giant telecom and tech conference, has begun: Read more... Uber revealed last week that its database was hacked about 10 months ago, and private information about 50,000 drivers could have been compromised: Read more... Bitcoin the currency may be down, but don't count the technology out:Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Almost everyone in the U.S. gets health-care subsidies in one form or another from the government, but most don't realize it: Read more... Jeffrey Goldberg looks at what Benjamin Netanyahu is doing to Israel's relationship with the U.S.: Read more... Andrew Sprung argues that the way for Republicans to shape health care is to accept -- and change -- Obamacare: Read more...