Share the View: A Slice of Pi

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

MARCH 14, 2015 bloombergview.com

WALL STREET Matt Levine: U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa has issued an opinion in the long-running Argentine bond dispute. "There is a time for dispassionate analysis of clever legal arguments, and there is a time to knock it off and do as you're told. Griesa is long since fed up with cleverness." Read more... INVESTING Barry Ritholtz: "Why is it that so many debates about investing devolve into exercises in bad rhetoric? I understand that not everyone studies the philosophy of rhetoric or participates in debating society or moot court, but some of the stuff I see is simply ridiculous." Read more... WORK Megan McArdle: "However unpleasant your job may be, it provides a measure of independence and the knowledge that you're creating value for someone else. So wanting to sacrifice purchasing power for employment may be economically illogical ... not least because we can't have an entire world of net exporters. But it has a certain human logic that we ignore at our peril." Read more... ASIA William Pesek: "Obsessively secretive Fanuc has a love-hate relationship with hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb. The Japanese robot maker no doubt appreciates the billionaire investor's many compliments, including 'reminds us of Apple in its product approach.' It just as surely abhors the media spotlight, never mind being told what to do by some loud foreigner." Read more... RUSSIA Leonid Bershidsky: "It increasingly seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin's disappearance from public view was carefully staged. Although he still hasn't surfaced after a weeklong absence, there's reason to believe Putin's disappearing act was an instance of paternity leave. It's probably not true, but I wish it were." Read more... SPORTS Kavitha A. Davidson: "Rich, powerful, secretive and controversial: the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Koch brothers were made for each other." Read more... LATIN AMERICA Mac Margolis: "No one has ever accused Juan Manuel Santos of aiming low." This week, the Colombian president raised the stakes again, "announcing a halt on airstrikes against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- a roll of the dice that could conceivably land him a Nobel Peace Prize or cashier him off into the Andean ether." Read more... FOOD McArdle: "Saturday is Pi Day -- 3.14.15. It's only going to occur once this century. So, naturally, you're going to want to celebrate by making some delicious, delicious pie." Read more... POLITICS Jeanne Cummings: "After a massive recession and years of partisan gridlock depleted their ranks, lobbyists are returning to Capitol Hill. The prospect of changes in health-care law -- something many deemed unlikely -- may be one reason." Read more... CULTURE Virginia Postrel: "Michael Graves, who died Thursday at 80, proved that status isn't the only reason people will pay more for designer products."Read more...