Tag: Bloomberg View
Illegal fishing a security threat
As China, Russia and the U.S. ramp up their naval deployments, there’s no shortage of conflicts waiting to happen in the world’s oceans. Yet...
Making capitalism work better for workers
For years, economists have puzzled over a question crucial to the well-being of American workers: Why does the law of supply and demand no...
Climate fight can’t be slowed, even by EPA
The best that can be said for the Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan to loosen restrictions on coal-fired power plants is that it will...
Rebranding NAFTA is better than dismantling it
After threatening for months to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump seems to have settled for a modest rebranding...
Time to help student debtors
For decades, the U.S. system of higher education has operated on a unique premise: To make college affordable for a broad swathe of Americans,...
The Supreme Court After Kennedy
U.S. politics was fractured and its system of government under stress even before Justice Anthony Kennedy said on June 27 that he’d retire from...
A B.A. isn’t the only way
Every year millions of Americans receive an asset that, based on past performance, promises to nearly double their lifetime incomes: a bachelor’s degree. Earning...
How a data breach affects the bottom line
Cyberattacks are an increasingly common threat to business, with risk officers listing cybersecurity as their greatest concern and more than 2,200 confirmed data breaches...
Manufacturing jobs are still pretty good jobs
In November 2014, the average hourly pay of production and nonsupervisory workers in durable goods manufacturing fell behind that of their peers in the...
Prescription drug costs a crime
President Donald Trump has complained that U.S. drug companies are “getting away with murder.” For once the hyperbole is forgivable: It suggests he takes...
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