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MARCH 3, 2015 bloombergview.com

DECLASSIFIED Eli Lake: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress today. It looks like top Barack Obama administration officials "are already laying the groundwork for painting Netanyahu's speech as a betrayal." Read more... Josh Rogin: "The United States and Turkey signed an agreement last month to train and equip some Syrian rebels, but Washington still cannot convince Ankara to increase its commitment to the fight against the Islamic State." Read more... UKRAINE CRISIS The Editors: "Even as it struggles to maintain a fragile peace along its eastern border, Ukraine's government must tackle another problem: rescuing its economy." Read more... U.S. ECONOMY Justin Fox: "The Federal Reserve System is a strange, ungainly beast. Its strangest and ungainliest appendages are the regional Federal Reserve Banks, 12 technically private institutions scattered unevenly across the nation." Read more... ECONOMICS Peter R. Orszag: "In the lasting debate over Thomas Piketty's book on outsized returns on capital, a significant fact has been obscured: If you exclude land and housing, capital has not risen as a share of the U.S. economy." Read more... TAXES Edward D. Kleinbard: "The smart money always wagers against tax reform, but 2015 may be the year that the sucker bet pays off, at least for business taxes." Read more... CONGRESS Jonathan Bernstein: "John Boehner is very, very good at his job. You'd never know that from the news coverage of the House defeat of his proposed three-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security." Read more... Zara Kessler: "Yes, you can now use LinkedIn to apply for a job as a U.S. representative. Sort of." Read more... HEALTH-CARE REFORM Christopher Flavelle: "If the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the government in the latest challenge to Obamacare, conservatives will have done more than undercut the Affordable Care Act. They will also have crippled a cause they have long supported: weakening the link between health insurance and employment." Read more... INDIA The Editors: "Judging by his much-hyped new budget, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is betting that he can rekindle growth without the sort of big-bang market reforms India needs." Read more... CURRENCY Mark Gilbert: "Bitcoin, the poster child for digital currencies, is proving something of a headache for central banks." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) The Nasdaq hit 5,000: Read more... Tinder will charge users under 30 $9.99 and users 30 and older $19.99 for a Tinder Plus subscription: Read more... Mary Lou Jepsen has joined Oculus Rift: Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Reasons to worry about U.S. equities: Read more... You guys realize the Apple Watch is going to flop, right?: Read more... Buy-and-hold fund prospers with no new bets in 80 years: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) So we have our first honest-to-goodness scandal of the 2016 cycle: Read more... James A. Thomson and Jesse Sussell at the Monkey Cage on geographic clustering and polarization: Read more... Seth Masket at Mischiefs of Faction is correct: It's the parties, not the press, that have made the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary into big deals: Read more...