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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

JANUARY 7, 2015 bloombergview.com

PARIS ATTACK Noah Feldman: "Why were the offices of Charlie Hebdo targeted this morning in Paris? It's too soon to know for sure, but if it's correct that the gunmen told bystanders they were from al-Qaeda in Yemen, as some newspapers are reporting, then a possible hypothesis emerges: This is an old-style, al-Qaeda jihadi attack against a Western capital designed to create global attention -- and its major aim is to compete with the new style of sovereignty-creating jihadism that has been so successful for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq." Read more... MIDDLE EAST The Editors: "Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has begun the new year by preparing his countrymen for the compromises Iran will need to make to strike a nuclear deal with the rest of the world. It was a significant step -- and U.S. leaders should take advantage of it." Read more... Feldman: Ben Ammi Ben-Israel's story, and that of the African Hebrew Israelites, "offers a remarkable commentary on race, diaspora and the return to Zion." Read more... ECONOMICS Noah Smith: "A lot of people see economics as a 'conservative science' that makes up unrealistic theories in order to push a free-market agenda. I don't know if that was ever true -- maybe in the 1970s? -- but if so, those days are long gone." Read more... EUROPE Leonid Bershidsky: "The top economic spokesman for the leftist Greek party Syriza, which leads the polls ahead of the Jan. 25 election, says one of the party's goals is to crack down on the nation's oligarchs. ... The only effective way to fight oligarchies is to shrink government." Read more... EUROPEAN ECONOMY Mark Gilbert: "European Central Bank President Mario Draghi hoped never to see this moment: Consumer prices in the euro region have dropped by 0.2 percent." Read more... ASIAN ECONOMY William Pesek: "Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have for months been making grand pronouncements about structural change, while moving only timidly to fulfill them. With oil dropping below $50 a barrel, some of the urgency to implement those painful reforms is sure to fade away. So too, however, will the excuses for not acting." Read more... LATIN AMERICA Mac Margolis: "Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has billboarded her country's fight against dangerous climate change." So why did she appoint a climate change denier as her new science and technology minister? Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) One of the most common prognostications of all the 2015 tech industry predictions so far is the idea that Dick Costolo will soon be ousted from Twitter. Read more... Uber received a court order that it must suspend operations in five of its six dispatch bases in New York City for failing to provide data about passenger pickups to the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission.Read more... Kickstarter has decided to drop Amazon Payments for payments processing in favor of Stripe. Read more... Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) Markets are scary. Read more... The Fed has its community banker. Read more... Bill Gross is newly normal. Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) The (real) Bank of America: Read more... Value managers root for more market turmoil: Read more... The inflation chicken littles were so wrong: The dollar is on a tear. Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Joshua Huder, at Rule 22, on what to expect from a unified Congress and divided government: Read more... Jeffery A. Jenkins and Charles Stewart III at the Monkey Cage offered some historical perspective before yesterday's speaker vote: Read more... John Patty at Mischiefs of Faction analyzes the speaker vote and what it tells us about the state of the Republicans: Read more...