Share the View 2: The Next Cyber-Attack

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

FEBRUARY 2, 2015 bloombergview.com

TECH The Editors: "By one estimate cybercrime is already costing the global economy more than $400 billion a year. After years of unproductive debate, the U.S. government finally looks ready to get serious. A big cybersecurity bill is likely to be introduced soon." Read more... FINANCIAL MARKETS Mohamed A. El-Erian: "January was an unusual and exciting month for financial markets. Volatility returned to the equity markets. ... The most critical question about the markets' behavior in January is not 'why?' but 'so what?'" Read more... EUROPE Guy Hands: "While the European economy remains in the doldrums, its banking system and the world economy are in a better state. That's why it's now essential for Europe's leaders to insist that Greece's new government stick to its financial commitments, regardless of what it promised the electorate." Read more... Leonid Bershidsky: "It's widely assumed that the European Union will cave to Greek demands to write off some of Greece's debt. What, however, if it doesn't?" Read more... INVESTING Barry Ritholtz: Play football like the Seahawks, but invest like the Packers. Read more... LAW Cass R. Sunstein: "Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are famous for being 'originalists'; they believe that constitutional provisions mean what they meant at the time they were ratified. ... As the lawyers prepare their briefs for the upcoming Supreme Court argument about bans on same-sex marriage, how remarkable, then, that some prominent originalists -- and admirers of Scalia -- are saying that such bans are inconsistent with the original understanding of the 14th Amendment."Read more... POLITICS Albert R. Hunt: "Polarization along partisan lines is greater today than it was two generations ago. ... That reality is highlighted by the new Bloomberg Politics-Des Moines Register poll of likely participants in the Iowa presidential caucuses a year from now." Read more... ECONOMICS Noah Smith: "The gladiatorial arena that is macroeconomics blogging is always exciting. One crowd-pleaser is Scott Sumner, a professor at Bentley University, who is the champion fighter of a team that calls itself the market monetarists." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Just your average stock market recovery: Read more... Don't turn America into Europe: Read more... Vaccine critics turn defensive over measles: Read more... Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) What even is culture? Read more... S&P is settling: Read more... Elsewhere in debt: Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) More on Mitt Romney's campaign and defeat: Read more... Andrew Prokop at Vox sums up the case for "Romney ran and lost": Read more... Kevin Drum at Mother Jones on blogging: Read more... Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) Bad scores can now affect how long Uber passengers must wait for rides:Read more... Zenefits is getting help from the Utah state legislature: Read more... Amazon now has co-branded websites with three universities to sell textbooks, fan gear and dorm staples like instant ramen: Read more...