Share the View 2: When Congress Goes to War

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MARCH 11, 2015 bloombergview.com

WAR The Editors: "On Wednesday, Congress will finally get a chance to take responsibility for its part in the global war against Islamic extremism. Or, to put it another way: On Wednesday, Congress will no longer be able to avoid responsibility for its part in the global war against Islamic extremism. It cannot afford to waste the opportunity." Read more... TECH Noah Smith: "There has been quite a lot of talk about a new tech bubble for the past few years. ... But today's tech bubble isn't likely to be the same kind of bubble we saw in the late 1990s -- if it's even a bubble at all." Read more... FEDERAL RESERVE Barry Ritholtz: "This week, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on presidential contenders for 2016 came out. ... When it came to Federal Reserve Bank Chair Janet Yellen, an astonishing 70 percent of the responses were 'I don't know name/not sure.'" Read more... ECONOMY Mohamed A. El-Erian: "The U.S. jobs report Friday confirmed the multidimensional decoupling taking hold in the global economy." Read more... 2016 ELECTIONS Francis Wilkinson: "All things being equal, Lindsey Graham would like to be president. The South Carolina senator visited New Hampshire this week, pursuing the dodgy mix of running for the Republican presidential nomination while championing comprehensive immigration reform." Read more... EUROPE Leonid Bershidsky: "Americans often criticize Europe for its weakness and lack of principle on foreign policy. ... There are, however, some high-profile cases in which European governments stand up for their values even to their countries' economic detriment. They've recently done just that in the matter of arms sales to Saudi Arabia." Read more... Clive Crook: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi "could plausibly claim to be the most important policy maker in Europe. And if you believe in democracy, that's a problem." Read more... HEALTH-CARE REFORM Megan McArdle: "Is Obamacare costing less than we expected?" Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) Simplivity, a data storage company, joined the unicorn club: Read more... There are pretty much no black venture capitalists: Read more... The huge surge in seed funding is creating a Series A crunch: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Presidency scholar Andrew Rudalevige at the Monkey Cage walks us through treaties, executive agreements and the other things presidents negotiate with foreign nations: Read more... Also at the Monkey Cage, Sarah Binder on centralizing Federal Reserve power in Washington: Read more... TNR's Brian Beutler on why Democrats shouldn't be calling Senator Tom Cotton a "traitor": Read more... Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Options for capitalizing on the dollar's rise: Read more... Diversification means always having to say you're sorry: Read more... The giants of global finance are in trouble: Read more...