http://www.bloomberg.com/feed/bview Bloomberg View Stories on Bloomberg.com en-gb The government should reveal the most important piece of information about Obamacare so far: How many people are actually signing up? a00aab500e6f0131b17a7565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:55:53 -0400 Christopher Flavelle http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/show-us-the-obamacare-exchange-numbers-.html It requires a rare sort of organizational incompetence to turn an event that’s almost a decade away into a public-relations disaster today. 78d99e400e5c0131b1697565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:32:42 -0400 Jonathan Mahler http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/qatar-s-world-cup-fiasco.html Forget the teeth-gnashing already occasioned by a new study on Jewish identity in the U.S. by the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project. The only thing every generation of Jews has in common is the conviction that it will be the last. What matters for the continuity of Jewish life is quality, not quantity. And in today’s America, Jewish intellectual, cultural, spiritual and religious life is flourishing. Case in point: Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, New Jersey, known as BMG or simply “Lakewood” -- one of the two biggest yeshivas, or Talmudic colleges, in the history of the world. MU3JRC1A1I4H01 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:32:25 -0400 Noah Feldman http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/where-jewish-life-thrives-in-america.html If you're like me, you're on the edge of your seat waiting to see how the economy responds to the current budget battles. edd464700e5e0131b16c7565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:19:56 -0400 Justin Wolfers http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/a-fuzzy-first-economic-indicator-on-the-shutdown.html Here are links to some of what I've been reading this morning. 8f2969400e4a0131b1677565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 07:17:54 -0400 Jonathan Weil http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/weil-on-finance-hank-greenberg-s-vision.html Good morning, everyone. Here's your daily dose of what I'm reading on the U.S. economy.  5aca55d00e460131b1657565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:52:17 -0400 Caroline Baum http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/baum-on-money-cue-the-bankers.html William Pesek's take on some of the stories driving the debate in politics, finance and social issues across Asia today.  a08189a00e2b0131b1587565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:44:09 -0400 William Pesek http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/pesek-on-asia-rahul-rides-in.html Here's today's look at some of the top stories on markets and politics in Europe: 0468d9500e3a0131b1637565516cdef8 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:28:21 -0400 Leonid Bershidsky http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/bershidsky-on-europe-farewell-to-berlusconi-.html On the evening of Sept. 25, Xi Jinping debuted in his role as China’s father-confessor across state-owned television stations. The occasion was the conclusion of three days of self-criticism sessions that the Chinese president oversaw in Hebei province. Wearing his signature black jacket and open-collared white shirt, Xi sat listening to nervous high-ranking local officials. They had reason to be worried: According to Xinhua News Agency, the state newswire, Xi had stern expectations for what would be accomplished (according to official press accounts, he attended four half-day sessions): “I don’t want to hear fancy words from you when I take part in your sessions. I want real criticisms and self-criticisms.” MU2ELZ1A1I4H01 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:29:59 -0400 Adam Minter http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/maoist-self-criticism-comes-to-a-tv-near-you.html I returned from a run this morning to learn that author Tom Clancy, the signpost of my entry into the U.S. Army, had died. b1b0ce400dd80131b14e7565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:24:52 -0400 Brad Taylor http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/my-infantry-days-with-tom-clancy.html Everyone knows, or has heard the cliche, that markets hate uncertainty. It’s also a given that the future is always uncertain. How, then, do markets ever manage to function -- or, for that matter, businesses, which must make decisions today about investments that will pay off in the future? MU215F1A74E901 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:00:01 -0400 Caroline Baum http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/steve-jobs-never-worried-about-the-debt-ceiling.html Lately India has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Its once tigerish economy is growing at its slowest rate in more than a decade. Newspapers are filled with ever more depressing stories of rape, official plunder and gut-wrenching poverty. To an outsider the headlines can seem surreal: Last week the cabinet actually voted to allow convicted criminals to serve in Parliament and state legislatures, before being forced to back down. MU1XO30YHQ0X01 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:00:00 -0400 Ravi Venkatesan http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/india-s-wealthy-must-open-their-gates-and-fight-chaos.html In the 15 years that the Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use or possession of such arms has been in force, 78 percent of the world’s declared stores has been destroyed, and the rest are scheduled for demolition. With the arrival in Syria this week of an international team to inspect this regime’s program, there is hope that another significant stockpile will be demobilized. MU28UB0YHQ0X01 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:39:11 -0400 the Editors http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/chemical-weapons-control-isn-t-all-about-syria.html Here are links to some of my afternoon reading. 525fdbd00dcf0131b14a7565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:39:58 -0400 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/weil-on-finance-blankfein-s-obvious-insight.html Bitcoin no longer needs the Silk Road. 9e445ca00dc60131b1427565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:36:36 -0400 Kirsten Salyer http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/will-silk-road-bust-kill-bitcoin-.html It won't be easy to stop lunatics willing to steal copper wire with lethal current going through them. 573fca400dbb0131b13d7565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:41:20 -0400 Megan McArdle http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/copper-thieves-live-life-on-the-edge.html Brazil's one-time multibillionaire, Eike Batista, offers lessons on getting rich fast and blowing it even faster. 7e7d65200dbe0131b13f7565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:08:15 -0400 Raul Gallegos http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/six-lessons-from-blowing-30-billion-in-brazil-.html My preferred creepy trick is creepier and less of a trick and it goes like this. 5e652ab00db00131b1317565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:43:51 -0400 Matt Levine http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/mint-the-premium-bonds-.html Why it's hard to say if Obamacare's federal exchanges will be open for business in short order, or buggy for weeks to come. fa6161b00dac0131b12b7565516cdef8 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:29:44 -0400 Megan McArdle http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/untangling-obamacare-s-web-glitches.html The passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile is a major victory for U.S. diplomacy. It came about by implementing some of the major lessons of the post-Cold War decades -- the importance of force to back up diplomacy and a willingness to use force outside the UN context. Now President Barack Obama must use these lessons in the endgame. But he must also apply a third lesson: keeping the world’s attention on the much more important, and harder, task of ending the civil war. MU1G266VDKHT01 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:00:29 -0400 Nancy Soderberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/hard-truths-on-syria-from-the-clinton-era.html